{"id":796136,"date":"2026-05-14T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796136\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:50:21","slug":"netflix-lands-four-festival-docs-including-free-leonard-peltier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796136\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Lands Four Festival Docs Including Free Leonard Peltier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNetflix<\/a> has acquired four documentaries<\/a> that were highlights of the festival circuit, from Sundance<\/a> to Telluride<\/a> to Tribeca<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tFree Leonard Peltier<\/a>, Teenaged Wasteland, The Bend in the River and Room to Move have all been picked up by the streamer, with Adam Del Deo, Netflix\u2019s vp, documentaries, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to give them a home on Netflix so audiences can keep discovering and loving great works like these.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFree Leonard Peltier<\/a>, which will stream on Netflix starting Oct. 12, tells the story of Peltier, a young leader of the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, who was convicted of a brutal crime based on falsified evidence. The film from Jesse Short Bull and David France also tracks the decades-long efforts to secure the release of Peltier from prison.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoys State team Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss are behind Teenaged Wasteland, which revisits the story of a group of teenagers in upstate New York, who in the early 1990s make a film that uncovers a conspiracy that is poisoning their community. This film will debut on the service on Sept. 4.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bend in the River, out on Dec. 17, was executive produced by Joel Coen and Frances McDormand and follows a group of friends (including director Rob Moss) over five decades. After a 1978 summer spent rent-free, outdoors and with clothing-optional during a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, Moss checks in with his friends periodically to discuss choices made as individuals and as a generation.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Amy Schumer executive-produced Room to Move, from director Alexander Hammer, follows the choreographer Jenn Freeman as she navigates a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and expresses her new reality through dance. Room to Move will hit Netflix on May 27.<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix has long been an avid buyer of documentaries, often finding awards success with the titles. Devo, the doc about the New Wave group, which earned a Grammy nomination for best music film, and the Emmy-nominated In Waves and War and The White House Effect, were all acquired out of festivals. The streamer also picked up its Oscar-nominated feature doc The Perfect Neighbor out of last year\u2019s Sundance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix has acquired four documentaries that were highlights of the festival circuit, from Sundance to Telluride to Tribeca.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":796137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[434,171,324839,131225,53,4659,46541,104192,43558,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-796136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-documentaries","tag-entertainment","tag-free-leonard-peltier","tag-leonard-peltier","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-sundance","tag-telluride","tag-tribeca","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116573728253474582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}