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The Dark Wind (1991)

Name: The Dark Wind
Director: Errol Morris
Genre: drama film
Rating: 5.7

The Dark Wind is a 1991 American mystery drama film based on The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman, one of a series of mysteries set against contemporary Navajo life in the Southwest. Directed by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris in his fiction debut, it stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Jim Chee and Fred Ward as Joe Leaphorn.

Directed by Errol Morris · Shot by Stefan Czapsky · Music by Michel Colombier

Elsewhere

More by Errol Morris

The Pigeon Tunnel
Separated
Tune Out the Noise
Gates of Heaven — 1978
Vernon, Florida — 1981
The Thin Blue Line — 1988
A Brief History of Time — 1991
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control — 1997
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. — 1999
The Fog of War — 2003
Standard Operating Procedure — 2008
Tabloid — 2010
They Were There — 2011
The Unknown Known — 2013
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography — 2016
American Dharma — 2018
CHAOS: The Manson Murders — 2025

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