Taboo American Style

This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives.

The film begins at the end of World War II and follows an American soldier (James Best) living in Germany during its post-war reconstruction. The title is the German word for "forbidden," and refers to the taboo nature of his relationship with a German woman (Susan Cummings) who eventually becomes his wife. Her younger brother (Harold Daye) refuses to accept Germany's defeat and joins a guerilla group called the Werwolf…