A Good Day to Die (2010)
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.
Directors: Lynn Salt, David Mueller.
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Dennis Banks as Self - Co-Founder, American Indian Movement; Ojibwa |
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Brenda Child as Self - Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota; Ojibwa |
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Bob Hicks as Self - Filmmaker; Creek - Seminole |
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Sydney Byrd as Self - Dakota |
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George Mitchell as Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa |
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Frances Fairbanks as Self - Director, American Indian Center, Minneapolis; Ojibwa |
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Jay WhiteCrow as Self - AIM Member; Seneca |
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Lyle Rustad as Self - Co-Founder, Diversity Foundation |
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Clyde Bellecourt as Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa |
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Lehman Brightman as Self - Founder, United Native Americans; Lakota - Creek |
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Wilmer Mesteth as Self - Traditional Leader and Educator; Lakota |
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Charlie Hill as Self - Comedian; Oneida |
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Wes Studi as Self - Actor; Cherokee |
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Ken Tilsen as Self - Defense Attorney, Wounded Knee Trial |
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Cy Griffin as Self - Videographer |
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LaDonna Harris as Self - Former wife of US Senator Fred Harris; Comanche |
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Della Warrior as Self - C.O.O., Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation; Otoe - Missouria |
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Eda Gordon as Self - Defense Investigator, Wounded Knee Trial |
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Joann WhiteCrow as Self - AIM Member; Cherokee |
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Marshall McKay as Self - Tribal Chairman, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation |
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George Tennyson as Self - US Marshal, South Dakota |
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Cora Jones as Self - Former employee, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Dakota |
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Marshall Young as Self - Judge, Custer Trial, Custer, SD |
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Tashina Banks as Self - Dennis Banks' daughter; Lakota - Ojibwa |
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Dorothy Sun Bear as Self - Wounded Knee Museum; Lakota |
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Roselyn Jumping Bull as Self - Great granddaughter of Sitting Bull; Lakota |
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Rick Thomas as Self - Vietnam Veteran; Dakota |
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Larry Anderson as Self - Vietnam Veteran, Tribal Councilman; Navajo |
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Leonard Wabasha as Self - 7th Generation Hereditary Chief; Dakota |
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Leonard Foster as Self - AIM Member; Navajo |
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De Glassgow as Self - Sheriff, Custer County, SD |
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Jerry Brown as Self - Attorney General, California / Former California Governor |
| Directing | Lynn Salt | Director |
| Directing | David Mueller | Director |
| Production | Lynn Salt | Producer |
| Production | David Mueller | Producer |
| Writing | Lynn Salt | Writer |
| Editing | Robert McFalls | Editor |
| Production | Marshall McKay | Executive Producer |
| Production | Anthony Roberts | Executive Producer |
| Production | Leland Kinter | Executive Producer |
| Production | James Kinter | Executive Producer |
| Production | Mia Durham | Executive Producer |
| Production | Tashina Banks | Co-Producer |
| Production | Takeo Koshikawa | Co-Producer |
| Production | Bob Hicks | Associate Producer |
| Production | Matthew Martinez | Associate Producer |
| Camera | David Mueller | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Lynn Salt | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Michel Tyabji | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Michel Tyabji | Music Supervisor |
| Sound | Rosa Costanza Tyabji | Sound Designer |