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Older Than America is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 8 march 2008 with Adam Beach

Older Than America (2008)

Older Than America
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Released in USA 8 march 2008
Length 1h41
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller
Rating53% 2.65072.65072.65072.65072.6507

Older than America is 2008 American suspense drama film directed by Georgina Lightning and starring Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Georgina Lightning and Bradley Cooper. The film explores and highlights the impact of the "culture-killing" effects of the typical Native American experience in boarding schools in the 1900s and other inter-social relationships between the Native American people and the dominant European-based American culture.

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This script must be run from the command line

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