Michael Spears

Michael Spears

Born: December 28, 1977
in Chamberlain, South Dakota, USA
Michael Spears (born December 28, 1977) is an Indigenous American actor. He is a member of the Kul Wičaša Lakota from the Lower Brulé Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.

Movies for Michael Spears...

You Can't Run Forever
Title: You Can't Run Forever
Character: Ranger Stevens
Released: May 17, 2024
Type: Movie
A teenage girl suffering from anxiety due to a tragic event from her past finds herself hunted through the woods by a sociopath on a murderous rampage.
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Title: 1923
Character: Runs His Horse
Released: December 18, 2022
Type: TV
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.
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The Year of the Dog
Title: The Year of the Dog
Character: Fred
Released: October 15, 2022
Type: Movie
Matt, a loner alcoholic, struggles to maintain sobriety and honor his mother's dying wish to see him get sober. His AA sponsor offers him refuge at his farm where Matt finds Yup'ik, a stray husky with a unique talent. Their relationship struggles at first, but with the help of their Montana community, the two strays find a connection and discover what it takes to pull thru to the finish line.
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The Sacrifice Zone
Title: The Sacrifice Zone
Released: May 16, 2022
Type: Movie
During the 1973 occupation at Wounded Knee, two activists, Marvin and Bud "One Bull", are arrested and thrown in jail. Filled with righteous indignation, Bud fights with his captors while Marvin, is mourning his wife, Anna Ward, who died in a car accident months earlier. Claire Chapman, a young lawyer assigned to defend Bud and Marvin, investigates. The three of them will discover their case is part of a massive conspiracy involving the federal government and big business. Meanwhile, in jail, an advisor from the Nixon Administration, a sitting Senator, and even a famous Hollywood actor visit Marvin and Bud. What secret was Anna Ward hiding before she died? What do the activists know?
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Title: 1883
Character: Comanche Trader
Released: December 19, 2021
Type: TV
Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.
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Title: Reservation Dogs
Character: Danny
Released: August 9, 2021
Type: TV
Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.
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The Ballad of Lefty Brown
Title: The Ballad of Lefty Brown
Character: Biscuit
Released: December 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow and must confront the ugly realities of frontier justice.
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Angels in Stardust
Title: Angels in Stardust
Character: Tenkill
Released: March 25, 2016
Type: Movie
An imaginative teenage girl, living in a mystical and dangerous community built on a deserted drive-in movie lot along the Texas/Oklahoma border, struggles to realize her potential, and escape the world she was born into.
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Title: Z Nation
Character: Black Hoof
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: TV
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
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The Activist
Title: The Activist
Character: Bud 'One Bull' Ward
Released: March 7, 2014
Type: Movie
A political thriller taking place during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activists are arrested and in the custody of the local sheriff's office. During their stay they are visited by a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie star who is also an activist.
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Winter in the Blood
Title: Winter in the Blood
Character: Raymond Long Knife
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching for is his own uncertain identity and a glimpse of salvation.
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Guns, Girls and Gambling
Title: Guns, Girls and Gambling
Character: Redfoot
Released: September 5, 2012
Type: Movie
The story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino
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Title: Longmire
Character: Mica Dullknife
Released: June 3, 2012
Type: TV
A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson.
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Yellow Rock
Title: Yellow Rock
Character: Broken Wing
Released: November 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Five men ride into the eerie town of Yellow Rock, hoping to rescue a family member and his lost boy. The leader, Max Dietrich, hires Mountain Man, Tom Hanner, to guide them into the Black Paw Tribe territory for the search.
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The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy
Title: The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy
Character: Kutseena
Released: March 3, 2011
Type: Movie
In 1870s Texas, a ruthless bounty hunter and an Irish desperado flee the law with a young criminal claiming to possess a treasure more valuable than gold. Crossing paths with some of the West’s most notorious figures, the three outlaws fight for their lives in the pursuit of fame and fortune. Fueled by an ensemble cast and inspired by actual events, THE LEGEND OF HELL’S GATE blends legend and history into a Western spectacle that recounts a treacherous existence in post Civil War Texas.
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Shadowheart
Title: Shadowheart
Character: Washakie
Released: August 4, 2009
Type: Movie
James Conners comes home to the town of Legend, New Mexico in 1865 to avenge his fathers death against the ruthless Will Tunney. Along the way he re-captures his long lost love Mary Cooper. With the chance to take Will Tunney he must choose revenge or redemption.
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Imprint
Title: Imprint
Character: Tom Greyhorse
Released: July 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind.
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Title: Into the West
Character: Dog Star
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: TV
The lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion, between 1825 and 1890.
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Title: Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Character: Stat Man
Released: October 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.
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The Broken Chain
Title: The Broken Chain
Character: Young Lohaheo
Released: November 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The true story of Iroquois warrior Thayendanegea participating in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
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The Broken Cord
Title: The Broken Cord
Character: Adam 2
Released: February 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Fact-based story of an idealistic single dad who discovers that his beloved Native American adopted son is afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and complicates his life with the woman who becomes his wife.
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Dances with Wolves
Title: Dances with Wolves
Character: Otter
Released: March 30, 1990
Type: Movie
Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
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The Red Man's View
Title: The Red Man's View
Character: Silver Eagle
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Epic remake of a Native American film originally done 100 years ago about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the US Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of 'savages' exterminating all Native Americans. But there is hope when the band find a new beginning.
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Ghostkiller
Title: Ghostkiller
Character: Shakopee
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Accused murderer Kyle Ghostkiller, heir to a mystical medicine bundle, escapes the FBI and time jumps to 1862 where he must save his thirty-eight ancestors from hanging and prevent a supernatural dark force from destroying the future.