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Wes Studi

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Wesley "Wes" Studi (born December 17, 1947) is an American Cherokee actor, who has earned notability for his portrayals of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in well-received Academy Award-winning films, such as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, the award-winning Geronimo: An American Legend and the Academy Award-nominated film The New World (2005). He most recently portrayed General Linus Abner (an analogue to the biblical Abner) in the NBC series Kings, and Eytukan in James Cameron's box office blockbuster Avatar.

17-12-1947

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Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, U.S.

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Terra Infirma

Terra Infirma

Nature, government and industry collide in southwest US and southwest China, as nature fights back and people struggle to survive.
0.0

Year:

2024

Mending the Line

Mending the Line

A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means to coming to terms with his physical and emotional trauma.
6.4

Year:

2023

Bonnie

Bonnie

A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
3.0

Year:

2022

Acting Like Nothing is Wrong

Acting Like Nothing is Wrong

Despite what would seem to be a flourishing career, most recently playing Kermit on Showtime's Shameless, Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster struggles both professionally and personally.
0.0

Year:

2022

A Love Song

A Love Song

Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.
6.8

Year:

2022

Badland

Badland

Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
6.2

Year:

2019

The Condemned 2

The Condemned 2

A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in which convicts are forced to fight each other to the death as part of a game that's broadcast to the public.
5.1

Year:

2015

Ronnie BoDean

Ronnie BoDean

Ronnie BoDean is a larger-than-life "toughman" suffering from a mean hangover. When his neighbor is jailed, his native warrior's need to teach takes over so he shows her two precocious kids modern "survival skills".
0.0

Year:

2015

Planes: Fire & Rescue

Planes: Fire & Rescue

When world-famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of aerial firefighting. Dusty joins forces with veteran fire and rescue helicopter Blade Ranger and his team, a bunch of all-terrain vehicles known as The Smokejumpers. Together, the fearless team battles a massive wildfire, and Dusty learns what it takes to become a true hero.
6.2

Year:

2014

A Million Ways to Die in the West

A Million Ways to Die in the West

As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
6.0

Year:

2014

Sugar

Sugar

A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of Hollywood and Venice beach.
6.2

Year:

2013

Destination: Planet Negro!

Destination: Planet Negro!

In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America -- leave the planet and populate Mars. Using technology created by George Washington Carver, a three-person crew (plus one rambunctious robot) lift-off in Earth's first working spaceship on a mission that will take them to a world not unlike present-day America. Their spacey adventure illuminates some hard truths about American culture, and threatens to undermine the time-line of history along the way.
6.5

Year:

2013

A Good Day to Die

A Good Day to Die

Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement.
6.5

Year:

2010

Older Than America

Older Than America

The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to prevent her mother from revealing the atrocities that unfolded at a Native Indian boarding school.
4.6

Year:

2008

El Camino

El Camino

Three young people drive to Mexico to scatter their friend's ashes, they are forced to confront their own sense of family, identity and future.
3.0

Year:

2008

Cosmic Radio

Cosmic Radio

A 38-year-old California trust fund kid tries to save his independent radio station, KZMC Cosmic Radio, from financial ruin when his wealthy father pulls the plug.
2.0

Year:

2007

Wolf Ridge

Wolf Ridge

0.0

Year:

2007

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
6.5

Year:

2007

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
6.5

Year:

2007

Seraphim Falls

Seraphim Falls

The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes the two men through frigid snow-capped mountains and arid deserts, far from the comforts and codes of civilisation, into the bloodiest recesses of their own souls.
6.4

Year:

2007

The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy

The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy

Explore America’s darkest period: President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma in 1838. Nearly a quarter of the Cherokee National died during the Trail of Tears, arriving in Indian Territory with few elders and even fewer children.
4.5

Year:

2006

The New World

The New World

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
6.5

Year:

2005

Miracle at Sage Creek

Miracle at Sage Creek

Two families overcome prejudice and tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle saves the life of a small boy.
5.6

Year:

2005

Animal

Animal

His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has assumed a life of crime and violence. Can a father haunted by his past redeem his family from the very streets he created, or will he be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice?
5.6

Year:

2005

A Thief Of Time

A Thief Of Time

Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.
4.7

Year:

2004

Undisputed

Undisputed

Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
6.5

Year:

2002

Road to Redemption

Road to Redemption

A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangsters
6.5

Year:

2001

Ice Planet

Ice Planet

In the brief period of peace after a terrible war on a far future Earth, an outer-space military academy is attacked by an unknown and unstoppable alien force. The commander, along with a group of newly graduated cadets, escapes to a large research station. Pursued by the aliens, the station jumps through a mysterious hyperspace gateway that sends them to a planet in an unknown part of the universe.
4.6

Year:

2001

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
0.0

Year:

1997

The Killing Jar

The Killing Jar

Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane, after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police. Is he the murderer, or is it something of his past?
4.5

Year:

1997

Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse

The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
9.6

Year:

1996

Street Fighter

Street Fighter

Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
4.6

Year:

1994

The Broken Chain

The Broken Chain

The true story of Iroquois warrior Thayendanegea participating in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
3.0

Year:

1993

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
7.4

Year:

1992

The Doors

The Doors

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
7.1

Year:

1991

Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
7.8

Year:

1990

Behind the Lines

Behind the Lines

Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired by the stage play If All the Sky Were Paper, the film tells the story of Carroll, who travels the world to seek out the greatest war letters ever written
0.0

Year:

-

Timber Lands

Timber Lands

Follows two families with a deep-seated generational hatred for each other which comes to a head after the tragic death of one of the families’ celebrated bronc riders. At the center of it all, Russ, a man with deep ties to his native land, seeks to have the final word and bring about justice to a rivalry threatening to consume all they have left.
0.0

Year:

-

The Midway Point

The Midway Point

Jake, a high schooler on the autistic spectrum, feels disillusioned with the world. When he meets Alice, he begins to experience the world in other ways. Little does Jake know, Alice may have more in common with him than he could imagine.
0.0

Year:

2024

The Roof

The Roof

After being sent to stay with his grandfather, a Cheyenne teen uncovers a connection to his family and community in a way he never thought possible.
6.1

Year:

2023

Soul

Soul

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
8.1

Year:

2020

A Dog's Way Home

A Dog's Way Home

The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
7.4

Year:

2019

Hostiles

Hostiles

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
6.9

Year:

2017

Pie Lady of Pie Town

Pie Lady of Pie Town

In the New Mexico desert, pie equals love. Kathy Knapp left her privileged life to bake pie in dusty Pie Town, a once forgotten corner of the world with few amenities. Why? To find her center and give the world pie. This is her story.
0.0

Year:

2014

Road to Paloma

Road to Paloma

While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is coping with the end of his marriage. An unlikely friendship develops, as they ride together towards the Teton mountain range, where Wolf will spread his mothers ashes.
5.9

Year:

2014

Battledogs

Battledogs

When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of super-soldiers.
4.5

Year:

2013

Being Flynn

Being Flynn

Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
6.1

Year:

2012

The Dome of Heaven

The Dome of Heaven

Set in the unique beauty of Oklahoma country, "Dome of Heaven" is the story of the Moses family, dysfunctionally struggling for decades, and which consists of a Cherokee father and German mother and their two adult children Franklin and Flutie. With challenges both personal and societal, each tries to find their place in a world and peace with each other, but so many complications of emotions, culture clash and misunderstanding often keeps them apart.
0.0

Year:

2011

Making The Last of the Mohicans

Making The Last of the Mohicans

Interviews with the cast and crew of the 1992 Michael Mann film.
0.0

Year:

2010

Reel Injun

Reel Injun

The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era to the present day: how their image on the screen has changed the way to understand their history and culture.
7.2

Year:

2010

Avatar

Avatar

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
7.6

Year:

2009

The Only Good Indian

The Only Good Indian

Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian "training" school to assimilate into White society. When he escapes to return to his family, Sam Franklin, a bounty hunter of Cherokee descent, is hired to find and return him to the institution. Franklin, a former Indian scout for the U.S. Army, has renounced his Native heritage and has adopted the White Man's way of life, believing it's the only way for Indians to survive. Along the way, a tragic incident spurs Franklin's longtime nemesis, the famous "Indian Fighter" Sheriff Henry McCoy, to pursue both Franklin and the boy.
3.5

Year:

2009

Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild

Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf-dog, Buck, and schemes to save him from a cruel dogsledder.
6.3

Year:

2009

The Undying

The Undying

Seduced by the ghost of a Civil War soldier, Barbara Haughton creates a love that is undying.
4.2

Year:

2009

Three Priests

Three Priests

Dusty and Joe are brothers as different as can be. Dusty, a confident bronco rider and ladies' man, has always dominated the shy, younger Joe, who struggles with his place in the family and his feelings of insecurity. Their parents, retired sheriff Jake and his wife Rachel, work to keep the family together, but their strength is about to be tested when a beautiful childhood friend returns, creatin
2.0

Year:

2008

Edge of America

Edge of America

From acclaimed director Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time", comes this touching and inspirational story about loyalty, friendship, and courage. New man in town Kenny Williams has just accepted a position as an English professor at the Three Nations Reservation in Utah. Finding it hard to fit in with the tight-knit Native American community, he decides to take on the challenge of coaching the high school girls' basketball team.
5.9

Year:

2003

Coyote Waits

Coyote Waits

A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Chee investigates the case he discovers some unusual events that perplex the veteran lawman, leading to an intriguing climax.
4.7

Year:

2003

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger

This version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins with the introduction of Luke Hartman, a 20-year old Boston law student who witnesses the murder of his brother, a Texas Ranger. He himself is wounded in the midst of the chaos, but is rescued by the Apache Tonto... and subsequently becomes smitten by Tonto's sister Alope. He then devotes his life to avenging the death of his brother and fighting injustice, and in the process becoming a worldwide legend.
5.4

Year:

2003

Skinwalkers

Skinwalkers

Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
6.6

Year:

2002

Superfire

Superfire

A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
5.0

Year:

2002

Christmas in the Clouds

Christmas in the Clouds

A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation. Shot on location at The Sundance Resort in Utah, this is the first contemporary romantic comedy to feature an almost entirely American Indian cast. The film was featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
6.1

Year:

2001

Wind River

Wind River

The 1854 Wyoming historical drama is based on Tom Shell's adaptation of the true life memoirs of Pony Express rider Nick Wilson.
6.0

Year:

2000

Mystery Men

Mystery Men

When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.
5.8

Year:

1999

Soundman

Soundman

A sound mixer on a low-budget sci-fi western movie falls in love with an untalented violinist and promises to get her scoring gigs for films.
5.2

Year:

1999

Deep Rising

Deep Rising

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
6.2

Year:

1998

Lone Justice: Showdown at Plum Creek

Lone Justice: Showdown at Plum Creek

A frontier sheriff copes with a missing corpse, Briton Oscar Wilde and an assassination attempt.
5.0

Year:

1996

Heat

Heat

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
7.9

Year:

1995

Powwow Highway

Powwow Highway

Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.
6.6

Year:

1989

The Pipeline

The Pipeline

Based on true stories surrounding the building of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline; a woman, whose father dies, is left a trust fund tied to a mysterious name, unraveling a history of family, affairs, and life in Alaska.
0.0

Year:

-

Brave

Brave

Uncle Jack, a 15-year military veteran with a history of substance abuse who works as an entertainer at a local Native casino. At his estranged brother's funeral, he meets Jillian, his young orphaned niece battling liver cancer. Jillian’s dying wish is to find a home for her beloved dog, Carl. Though she sees potential in Jack as a caretaker, he struggles to care for himself. Jack turns out to be a liver donor match for Jillian, but his years of alcohol abuse have rendered him unsuitable.
0.0

Year:

-

Yesteryear

Yesteryear

A Native American actress living in Los Angeles psychologically unravels in quarantine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, BLM Protests, and other world events.
0.0

Year:

-

Longarm

Longarm

A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887.
4.0

Year:

1988

Candles

Candles

A fictional drama based on actual events. CANDLES is the story of the Camp Scott Murders where three small girls were brutally raped and murdered at a Girl Scout camp in Oklahoma back in 1977. A young woman reporter is assigned to cover the story of the decade and searches for 37 years to find the real killer.
0.0

Year:

-

Canyon of the Dead

Canyon of the Dead

Two archaeologists seek out the Canyon of the Dead and the dead find them.
0.0

Year:

-

Geronimo: An American Legend

Geronimo: An American Legend

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
6.3

Year:

1993