In 1975, Indigenous American Leonard Peltier was accused of shooting two FBI agents while defending South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The following year, he was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. Despite decades of protest and new evidence coming to light, he still sits behind bars. As he faces his final years, learn the real facts from those fighting for his clemency.

Leonard Peltier, one of the surviving leaders of the American Indian Movement, has been in prison for 50 years following a contentious conviction. A new generation of Native activists is committed to winning his freedom before he dies. Directed by Jesse Short Bull (“Lakota Nation vs. the United States”) and David France (“How To Survive a Plague,” “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,” and “Welcome to Chechnya”), and produced by Bird Runningwater.