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The Exiles

1961 · TMDB 6.2

Directed by Kent MacKenzie

The story of one night in the lives of a group of young Native American men and women who have left their reservations and are now living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles.

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A poetic, semi-documentary portrait of young Native Americans in Los Angeles, spending a restless night in the bars and streets of Bunker Hill.

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