Adam Beach Filmography

Older Than America

Actors: Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Bradley Cooper, Georgina Lightning, Wes Studi

Synopsis: The truths of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama starring Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, and Wes Studi. Traumatized by the strange visions that grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic Read More

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, J.K. Simmons, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Director Yves Simoneau explores the plight of the American Indian in the later half of the 19th century in this docudrama exploring the effects of westward expansion and based on the book by Dee Brown. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 09

Actors: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, Diane Neal, Ice-T, Adam Beach

Turok: Son of Stone

Actors: Adam Beach, Irene Bedard, Adam G., Robert Knepper, Cree Summer

Synopsis: Twenty years after being exiled from the village in which he was born, a mighty warrior returns to his home to find that a ruthless tyrant has slaughtered his family and spread death and despair across the land. Everything Turok ever knew is now gone, and the man responsible for this untold Read More

Luna: Spirit of the Whale

Actors: Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Aaron Miko, Erin Karpluk, Michelle Harrison

Synopsis: Adam Beach, Graham Greene, and Jason Priestly star in director Don McBrearty's fictionalized account of the events that took place in the harbor of a Vancouver Island village and shocked animal lovers around the world. When a government representative (Priestly) announces that he intends to Read More

Flags of Our Fathers

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Read More

Bottoms Up

Actors: Paris Hilton, Jason Mewes, David Keith, Kevin Smith

Synopsis: A Midwestern bar tender hungering for life in the fast lane enters a Hollywood King of the Bar contest in this fast-paced showbiz satire starring Jason Mewes and Paris Hilton. Owen Peadman (Mewes) is Minnesota's "Golden Boy" of bartending, but the Midwest has grown a little bland, and now Owen is Read More

Now & Forever

Actors: Mia Kirshner, Adam Beach, Gordon Tootoosis, Theresa Russell, Gabriel Olds

Synopsis: Two young people learn an invaluable lesson about what love really means in this romantic drama. Angela (Mia Kirshner) and John (Adam Beach) have been close friends since childhood, and as they've grown into adulthood, John's feelings for Angela have matured into love. John is of Cree Indian Read More

Johnny Tootall

Actors: Adam Beach, Alex Rice, Nathaniel Arcand, Sheila Tousey, Randi Knighton

Synopsis: A man struggles to reconnect with his family and community as he deals with the scars of war in this independent drama from writer and director Shirley Cheechoo. Johnny Tootall (Adam Beach) is a Native North American from Vancouver who joined the military when he found himself unable to handle his Read More

The Big Empty

Actors: Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: A guy looking for easy money gets a lot more than he bargained for in this noir-flavored independent comedy. John Person (Jon Favreau) is a struggling actor living in Los Angeles who is starting to buckle under the pressure of his own failures. With no acting jobs coming in and a massive credit Read More

Coyote Waits

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Sheila Tousey, Alex Rice, Gary Farmer

Synopsis: When gunshots ring out in a tragic roadside shooting, police officer Delbert Nez winds up dead. His close friend Officer Jim Chee (Adam Beach) is the first on the scene, and upon spotting an elderly, drunken Navajo Shaman named Ashie Pinto (Jimmy Herman) with the murder weapon tucked in his belt Read More

Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story

Actors: Adam Beach, Eric Schweig, Garry Chalk, Currie Graham, Harlan Bruyere

A Thief of Time

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Sheila Tousey, Peter Fonda, Graham Greene

Synopsis: This adaptation of Tony Hillerman's A Thief of Time keeps that book's original storyline. The protagonists Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Jim Chee (Adam Beach) are a pair of Navajo police officers whose beat is their reservation. They must investigate why some important historical artifacts have Read More

Windtalkers

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Slater

Synopsis: Loosely based on a real-life operation during World War II, this action-adventure from director John Woo stars Nicolas Cage as Joe Enders, a Marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in the Solomon Islands during an ambush he believes was deadlier than necessary due to his indecision. Read More

Bliss: Season 01

Synopsis: The first season of the provocative Canadian anthology Bliss offers eight different tales of erotica, written and directed by women, for women. The opening episode, "Valentine's Day in Jail," stars Tory Higginson as a compassionate teacher who arranges a special visit with her prize pupil -- a Read More

Skinwalkers

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Saginaw Grant, Gerald Vandever, Alex Rice

Synopsis: Adapted from Tony Hillerman's best-selling novel by James Redford (stepson of Robert Redford), Skinwalkers was the vanguard of the proposed PBS anthology American Mystery. Returning to the Navajo reservation of his birth after many years, police detective Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) investigates a Read More

Joe Dirt

Actors: Joe Don Baker, David Spade, Dennis Miller, Brittany Daniel, Kid Rock, Adam Beach, Jaime Pressly, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: As the title character of Joe Dirt, David Spade plays a "white trash" janitor at an L.A. radio station, whose mullet hairdo is just one of many personal oddities that make him the object of much ridicule. And the sanitation gig is just the most recent of Joe's many incarnations during a tumultuous Read More

The Art of Woo

Actors: Sook-Yin Lee, Adam Beach, Joel S. Keller, Alberta Watson, John Gilbert

Synopsis: Toronto-based indie filmmaker Helen Lee spins this frothy romantic comedy about an ersatz glamour girl who unexpectedly gets what she wants. Concealing her working-class upbringing, young, ambitious Alessa Woo (Sook-Yin Lee) poses as a high-rolling Asian heiress, even though she lives in a Read More

The Last Stop

Actors: Adam Beach, Jürgen Prochnow, Rose McGowan, Callum Keith Rennie

Synopsis: In this claustrophobic thriller, Jason (Adam Beach) is a State Trooper who has found himself stranded in a cabin in the Colorado Rockies when a severe snowstorm hits the area. Waiting out the storm with Jason are his former girlfriend Nancy (Rose McGowan), the owner of the cabin, Fritz (Jurgen Prochnow Read More

Mystery, Alaska

Actors: Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack, Burt Reynolds, Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Maury Chaykin, Ron Eldard

Synopsis: In this comic drama about fame, sports, and small-town life, Mystery, Alaska is a small town in one of the least accessible parts of the coldest state in the union. It's a town where everyone knows each other and there isn't much to do. In places like this, small things tend to become very Read More

Smoke Signals

Actors: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal

Synopsis: This dramatic feature was written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans. Native American writer Sherman Alexie scripted this adaptation of his 1993 short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Director Chris Eyre's previous short Someone Kept Saying Powwow is Read More

Touched By an Angel: Written in Dust

Synopsis: Still bitter over the fact that his Jewish grandfather Sam (Harold Gould) had opposed his marriage to a Catholic girl named Roseanne (Holly Fulger), archaeologist Henry Moskowitz (Corey Parker) stubbornly resists Sam's attempts at reconciliation. At the same time, Henry is at odds with a group of Read More

Coyote Summer

Synopsis: A good film for families and horse lovers, this touching drama centers on a teenage malcontent who is sent away from New York City to spend the summer on her aunt and uncle's Utah ranch. There the rebellious girl learns important life lessons, particularly after she forms a bond with a beautiful Read More

A Boy Called Hate

Actors: Scott Caan, Missy Crider, James Caan, Elliott Gould, Adam Beach

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the troubled life of a teenage boy living with his father in an L.A. suburb. Young Steve tattooed the word "hate" upon his arm after a brief skirmish with the police. It has become his nickname. His dad is neither an example nor much help for the boy. He spends his days Read More

Dance Me Outside

Actors: Ryan Rajendra Black, Adam Beach, Michael Greyeyes, Jennifer Podemski, Lisa LaCroix, Kevin Hicks

Synopsis: This Canadian drama based on a book by W.P. Kinsella, examines the tension between Indians and Anglos in Canada from an Indian perspective. Silas Crow, who lives on a Northern Ontario reserve, wants to take a mechanic's course in Toronto with his friend Frank Fencepost. But before he can enroll Read More

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

Actors: Adam Beach, Mandy Patinkin, Michael Gambon, Nathaniel Parker, Eric Schweig

Synopsis: Native American history got the Disney treatment in this biography aimed at younger audiences. Adam Beach stars as Squanto, an Eastern Massachusetts native of the 17th century, who befriends the English settlers who are starting to colonize the region. Naively trusting his new friends, Squanto and Read More

Spirit Rider

Actors: Herbie Barnes, Gordon Tootoosis, Michelle St. John, Graham Greene

Synopsis: A teenage Ojibway boy, who has been in foster homes for ten years, is placed back on his family's reservation with his grandfather. While the tribe tries to make his return happy, the boy's resentments and family tragedies get in the way. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Cadillac Girls

Actors: Jennifer Dale, Mia Kirshner, Gregory Harrison, Adam Beach

Synopsis: Mia Kirshner plays Page, a troublesome teenager whose low self-esteem has manifested itself into petty thievery. After stealing a car, Page is hauled into court, where she is placed in the custody of her divorced mom (Jennifer Dale). Ordered to move into her mother's Nova Scotia home, Page is Read More

Lost in the Barrens

Synopsis: An orphaned white teen and a Cree Indian boy must put their differences aside to survive when they get lost together in the Canadian wilderness. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More