Adam Beach — Actor (9)
Dance Me Outside (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dance Me Outside
other title: Tanz mit einem Mörder
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
Coyote Waits (2003) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Coyote Waits
director: Jan Egleson actor: Adam Beach / Wes Studi
other title: Coyote attend / Der Koyote wartet
A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Chee investigates the case he discovers some unusual events that perplex the veteran lawman, leading to an intriguing climax.
Skinwalkers (2002) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Skinwalkers
director: Chris Eyre actor: Adam Beach / Wes Studi
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
other title: Il guerriero del falco / O Último Grande Guerreiro
It's the 17th century, and Native American Squanto roams free in the New World until he's captured by visiting sailors who take him back to England. Monk Brother Daniel teaches him social customs, but other Englishmen aren't as kind. Squanto becomes the unwilling star of performances that highlight his fighting skills, but he eventually engineers a return trip to America. He finds that his home has changed forever, and he must chart a new path for his people.
Windtalkers (2002) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Windtalkers
director: John Woo actor: Nicolas Cage / Adam Beach
other title: Códigos de Guerra / Windtalkers : Les Messagers du vent
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Flags of Our Fathers
director: Clint Eastwood actor: Dave Clennon / Ryan Phillippe
other title: Flags of our Fathers - As Bandeiras dos Nossos Pais / Mémoires de nos pères
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen — John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes — who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.