This powerful and unsettling film won an Academy Award in 1985 for Best Documentary Feature. Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd present a scathing overview of the shameful treatment of Native Americans during the 1970s. The forced relocation of 12,000 Navajo Indians from their lands in northeast Arizona was set in motion by the greed of energy consortiums eager to have access to the oil, gas, uranium, and coal on the sacred lands of these peoples. Narrated by Martin Sheen. "Broken Rainbow" is part of the First People’s TV series made possible by DreamCatchers, a non-profit organization working to bring Native films to a wider audience.
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