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2) Windtalkers
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A battle-weary Marine Sergeant guards and ultimately befriends a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code.
Publisher
Gateway Films (Vision Video)
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The documentary provides viewers with highly personal insights from a group of Native American war heroes regarding their service on behalf of the United States and the Navajo Nation. The secret code these marines developed, based on the unwritten Navaho language, was never broken, giving American troops an upper hand in many battles that ultimately led to Japan's surrender in 1945.
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
The year is 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee. Chee, too, has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other, and...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
In Season Two, Lt. Joe Leaphorn reunites with Jim Chee, his former deputy turned private eye when their separate cases bring them together in pursuit of the same suspect. They find themselves in the high desert of Navajo Country chasing a killer.
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Navajo tribal cops Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Jim Chee (Adam Beach) delve into the netherworld of illegal archaeological excavations, purloined pots, and slain pot hunters, set against a backdrop of Navajo witches, spirits, and lore."
9) Skinwalkers
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker"--Is at work.
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