Category: Movies » Documentary → Alcatraz Is Not an Island (2001)

When he was interviewed by Edward R. Murrow, Adolf Hitler said, "I don't know why you Americans are making such a fuss about the Jews. We're only doing to the Jews what you did to the Indians." Alas, he had a point. "Alcatraz Is Not an Island" is a genuinely moving documentary that vividly chronicles one battle in the long struggle between white Americans and Native Americans that arose from a forced assimilation policy called "relocation and termination," imposed in the early 1950's, under which entire tribes would essentially be "disappeared" from their historic recognition as sovereign nations and their members пїЅ the ones that had survived after the genocidal anti-Indian wars of the 19th century пїЅ thrown into large cities and be forced to live an existence on their own without government help. Screenshots: