Review – Incident at Oglala

Michael Apted turns a critical, documentary eye on the suspicious circumstances surrounding the arrest and conviction of Leonard Peltier for the murder of two FBI agents. Though both sides get their say, the forces of law and order come across as dishonest. The picture that emerges is of a man in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, railroaded by law enforcement because he knew yet refused to divulge the identities of the real killers. The presentation is mostly talking heads and archive footage, standard documentary stuff. The only real surprise is that they didn’t make more out of the fact that the shooting at the heart of the story took place 99 years and one day after Custer’s Last Stand. Mildly amusing