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The exiles [videorecording] / a Milestone Film release ; written, produced and directed by Kent Mackenzie ; a Mackenzie production.

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"The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to...

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Corporate Author: Revels (Musical group)
Other Authors: Mackenzie, Kent (Screenwriter, Director, Film editor), Williams, Yvonne (Performer), Nish, Homer, 1934-1980 (Performer), Reynolds, Tommy (Performer), Rodriguez, Rico (Performer), Sam, Clifford Ray, 1932-2002 (Performer), Parker, Clydean, 1934-1980 (Performer), Donahue, Mary (Performer), Andersen, Thom (Producer, Director), Willis, John (Narrator), Wolper, David L. (Producer), Stuart, Mel (Screenwriter, Producer), Kirste, Robert (Director), Kimble, Greg (Director), Alexie, Sherman, 1966- (Commentator), Burnett, Charles, 1944- (Commentator), Daarstad, Erik (director of photography.), Kaufman, Robert, 1930-2012 (director of photography.), Morrill, John Arthur (director of photography.)
Other title:At head of title on container: Sherman Alexie and Charles Burnett present.
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Harrington Park, NJ : New York, NY : Milestone Film & Video ; Exclusively distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories, ©2009.
Edition:2-disc premiere ed.
Series:Milestone cinematheque.
Subjects:
Urban Indians > North America.
Indians of North America > Migrations.
Indians of North America > History > 20th century.
Indians of North America > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Indians of North America > Employment > California > Los Angeles.
Rodeo performers > United States.
Urban renewal > California > Los Angeles.
Gentrification > California > Los Angeles.
City planning > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
City planning.
Economic history.
Gentrification.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Indians of North America > Urban residence.
Rodeo performers.
Social conditions.
Urban renewal.
California > Los Angeles.
Documentary films.
Documentary-style films.
Educational films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1. The exiles
  • Opening credits
  • "A little child of my own"
  • "I don't want to cut your ear off"
  • "Man, it's the same thing all over again"
  • Dear Homer
  • Double crisp
  • "We'll dance all night"
  • 3rd Street tunnel
  • At the Columbine Bar
  • "I don't say my prayers sometimes"
  • "It's cool up on Hill X"
  • Morning comes to Bunker Hill / a Milestone Film release ; written, produced and directed by Kent Mackenzie ; a Mackenzie production (1961) (72 min.); Special features: 2008 Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Bunker Hill 1956 / a Milestone Film release ; University of Southern California ; produced in the Graduate Workshop of the Department of Cinema ; directed, written & edited by Kent Mackenzie (1956) (17 min.)
  • Los Angeles plays itself / research/text/production, Thom Andersen [excerpt] (3 min.); Watching "The Exiles" with Sherman Alexie and Sean Axmaker [audio feature]; Audio of "The Exiles" Los Angeles opening night at UCLA [audio feature] (51 min.)
  • Disc 2. Special features: A skill for Molina / a Milestone Film release ; written, produced and directed by Kent Mackenzie ; a production of the Motion Picture Service of the United States Information Agency (15 min.)
  • The story of a rodeo cowboy / a Milestone Film release ; a David Wolper production ; series producer, Mel Stuart ; script by Kent Mackenzie, Mel Stuart ; produced, directed, & edited by Kent Mackenzie ; David Wolper Productions, Inc. and United Artists Television, Inc. (1962) (26 min.)
  • The searching years: a series of open-end films--Ivan and his father / a Milestone Film release ; Churchill Films presents ; a Dimension film ; produced and directed by Kent Mackenzie (color) (1970) (14 min.)
  • Last day of Angels Flight / Robert Kirste (1969) (3 min.)
  • Bunker Hill: A tale of urban removal / producer, Greg Kimble ; Milestone Films (2009) (23 min.)
  • White Fawn's devotion: A play acted by a tribe of red Indians in America / Pathé Frères (1901) (13 min.); DVD-ROM The Mackenzie files [PDF files require a DVD-ROM and Adobe Acrobat]; Sherman Alexie and Sean Axmaker-second interview [audio feature] (38 min.); The Leonard Lopate Show with Sherman Alexie and Charles Burnett [audio feature] (18 min.); Exiles stills gallery [slide show]

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