Who Owns the Past?
2000, English. Directed by Jed Riffe & George Burdeau.
This documentary, narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt and directed by Jed Riffe, tells the story of how the discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, reignited the conflict between anthropologists and Native peoples over the control of human remains found on ancestral Indigenous lands.
- Runtime
- 0h 56m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
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- Released
- 15 November 2000
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- William Smock
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Who Owns the Past? runs 56 minutes (0h 56m).
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Who Owns the Past? is rated NR in India. Check the rating guidance before watching with young children.
Which OTT platform is Who Owns the Past? on?
Who Owns the Past? isn’t on a subscription OTT platform in India, but you can watch it free online. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Who Owns the Past??
Who Owns the Past? (2000) was directed by Jed Riffe and George Burdeau and stars Linda Hunt.