‘The Exiles’ on Criterion Channel and Kanopy !Featured, American Independent Cinema, Classic, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Free, Kanopy, National Film Registry, socially aware cinema 11/16/202111/15/2021 Sean Axmaker Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 independently produced drama, chronicles the lives of urban American Indians (all of them non-actors drawing from their own lives) in the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles.