Presented by Sherman Alexie (acclaimed author/director) and Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep). THE EXILES chronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. A formally wealthy neighborhood of decayed Victorian mansions and skid-row apartment buildings. Gritty, realistic and far ahead of its time made in a period when Hollywood films featured Native Americans as noble savages. Using a script created exclusively from recorded 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.

The Exiles (Bonus Disc) (1961)
Special Features:

• Four short films directed by Kent Mackenzie including Bunker Hill 1956.
• Clips from Thom Andersen's masterpiece Los Angeles Plays Itself.
• Commentary track with best-selling author Sherman Alexie and critic Sean Axmaker
• Last Day of Angels Flight, a short film by Robert Kirste.
• Bunker Hill: A Tale of Urban Renewal, a short film by Greg Kimble.
• WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show with Sherman Alexie and filmmaker Charles Burnett.

  

• The Exiles