“Bad River” features dozens of interviews with tribe members and officials who say Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline is part of a broader siege on the band’s sovereignty and culture

A new documentary chronicles the fight of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Ojibwe against the Enbridge Pipeline.

In making a pipeline movie, film producer, writer and director Mary Mazzio was struck by the tribe’s “extraordinary spirit of generosity” to future people.

BAD RIVER is a full length documentary that takes us into the heart of an epic battle the Bad River Ojibwe are waging to save Lake Superior. Acclaimed New Yorker writer, Bill McKibben calls the film "a powerful chronicle… and a hopeful picture of the emerging possibilities for power” Narrated by Quannah ChasingHorse and Academy-Award nominee, Edward Norton. Opening in select @amctheatres across the US MARCH 15. For ticket and venue information https://www.badriverfilm.com/dates/ #badriverfilm #environment #water #waterislife #nature #socialjustice #indigenous #firstnations #river #greatlakes #protectgreatlakes

The movie “Bad River: A Story of Defiance” is set to premiere Friday in theaters across the country including in Wisconsin.

A 71-year-old crude oil pipeline on the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa could be removed after a legal fight, but it might simply be rerouted nearby.