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Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
The story of Douglas White, an 89-year-old Lakota Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who spent 17 years in federal prison for a crime he did not commit. During the making of this film, filmmakers uncovered new evidence of White’s “actual innocence” and brought the case back to federal court.
My takeA gripping true crime documentary that quietly dismantles injustice. This is the kind of film that sits with you—following an 89-year-old Lakota medicine man's fight to prove his innocence after 17 years behind bars, with filmmakers uncovering exonerating evidence along the way. Deeply human, morally clarifying, and urgently necessary.
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If tonight is a Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White night…
…these live in the same corner of my head.
Tell me what kind of night it is — I'll do the rest.