The Exiles

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Originally released by Kent Mackenzie in 1961 as a 16 mm. motion picture.
White Fawn's Devotion added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry in 2008.
"Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archives in cooperation with University of Southern California Moving Image Archive, National Film Preservation Foundation, the Mackenzie family and Milestone. Film restorationist: Ross Lipman." -- DVD credits.
Container and disc menu incorrectly state the title of Greg Kimble's film as "Bunker Hill: a tale of urban renewal."
Disc 1. Feature (b&w, ca. 73 min.) ; 2008 theatrical trailer (ca. 2 min.) ; Bunker Hill 1956 (c1956 ; sd., b&w, ca. 17 min. ; University of Southern California ; Directed, written and edited by Kent Mackenzie ; photographed and edited by Robert Kaufman) ; Los Angeles plays itself (sd., b&w, ca. 3 min. ; Research / text / production, Thom Andersen) ; Optional audio feature commentary by Sherman Alexie and Sean Axmaker ; Audio of The Exiles' Los Angeles opening night at UCLA (2009? ; ca. 51 min.) --
Disc 2. A skill for Molina (sd., b&w, ca. 16 min. ; A production of the Motion Picture Service of the United States Information Agency ; Written, produced and directed by Kent Mackenzie ; photography, Erik Darstaad, John Morrill ; music, Jaime Mendoza-Nava); Story of a rodeo cowboy (1962 ; sd., b&w, ca. 26 min. ; A David L. Wolper Production ; United Artists Television ; produced, directed and edited by Kent Mackenzie ; script by Kent Mackenzie, Mel Stuart ; narrated by John Willis) ; The Searching Years: a series of open-end films : Ivan and his father (1970 ; sd., col., ca. 14 min. ; Churchill Films presents ; A Dimension Film ; produced and directed by Kent Mackenzie) ; Robert Kirste's Last day of Angels flight (1969? ; sd., col. ; ca. 3 min.) ; Bunker Hill: a tale of urban removal (2009 ; sd., col. w/ b&w seq. ; ca. 23 min. ; produced and narrated by Greg Kimble ; camera, Chris Sherrod ; music, John Hartmann ; White Fawn's devotion : A play acted by a tribe of red Indians in America [the first Native American film] (n.d. ; si. w/ music soundtrack, b&w ; ca. 12 min. ; Directed by James Youngdeer ; English intertitles) ; Sherman Alexie and Sean Axmaker second interview [audio feature] (ca. 38 min.) ; WNYC Leonard Lopate Show with Sherman Alexie and Charles Burnett [audio feature] (ca. 18 min.) ; Exiles stills gallery --
Disc 2 DVD-ROM features : Mackenzie Files. Bunker Hill 1956 (Initial treatment, Initial script, Production script, Final release script) (c2009) [PDF] ; Exiles Final 1961 script [PDF] ; Thunderbird proposal and script [PDF] ; Exiles contemporary brochures [PDF] ; Exiles funding proposal [PDF] ; Exiles 2009 press kit [PDF] ; Kent Mackenzie resumé [PDF] ; A Description and examination of the production of The Exiles: a film of the actual lives of a group of young American Indians (Masters' Thesis by Kent Mackenzie, 1964) [PDF] ; The Jug man band : a journal of an attempt to capture in a film treatment the actual life and feelings of a wandering youth (by Kent Mackenzie, RS Klauber, Teresa Kennett, Patti Jones, Celia Elke) [PDF].
Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tommy Reynolds, Rico Rodriguez, Clifford Ray Sam, Clydean Parker, Mary Donahue.
"[C]hronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends, the film follows a group of exiles -- transplants from Southwest reservations -- as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance." -- Container.
DVD ; NTSC ; Access to DVD-ROM features requires DVD-ROM drive, and Adobe Reader software.

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