Indigenous Movies

  • 2007
    First Stories: Two Spirited

    First Stories: Two Spirited

    First Stories: Two Spirited

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    This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a...

    First Stories: Two Spirited
  • 1975
    Our Dear Sisters

    Our Dear Sisters

    Our Dear Sisters

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    Alanis Obomsawin, a North American Indian who earns her living by singing and making films, is the mother of an adopted child. She talks about her...

    Our Dear Sisters
  • 2024
    In This Moment

    In This Moment

    In This Moment

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    “In This Moment” follows Love, a trans woman navigating the complexities of polyamory and self-discovery in a world that often challenges...

    In This Moment
  • 2003
    Is the Crown at war with us?

    Is the Crown at war with us?

    Is the Crown at war with us?

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    In the summer of 2000, federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'gmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of...

    Is the Crown at war with us?
  • 2022
    Lakota Nation vs. United States

    Lakota Nation vs. United States

    Lakota Nation vs. United States

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    Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to...

    Lakota Nation vs. United States
  • 1985
    Broken Rainbow

    Broken Rainbow

    Broken Rainbow

    5.71985HD

    Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

    Broken Rainbow
  • 2018
    Piripkura

    Piripkura

    Piripkura

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    The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous...

    Piripkura
  • 1983
    El Norte

    El Norte

    El Norte

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    Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...

    El Norte
  • 1986
    Mistress Madeleine

    Mistress Madeleine

    Mistress Madeleine

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    Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the...

    Mistress Madeleine
  • 2024
    Cold Road

    Cold Road

    Cold Road

    6.12024HD

    On a frozen remote highway in the Canadian North, an Indigenous woman and her dog are hunted by a stranger in a semi truck.

    Cold Road
  • 2015
    La Buena Vida - The Good Life

    La Buena Vida - The Good Life

    La Buena Vida - The Good Life

    7.22015HD

    The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu...

    La Buena Vida - The Good Life
  • 2011
    Throat Song

    Throat Song

    Throat Song

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    In a small town in the Canadian Arctic, Ippik, a young Inuit woman, suffers in an abusive relationship. She starts to heal when she connects with...

    Throat Song
  • 2013
    The Turning

    The Turning

    The Turning

    5.82013HD

    Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi...

    The Turning
  • 2021
    maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

    maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

    maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

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    An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their...

    maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
  • 2019
    The Crying Fields

    The Crying Fields

    The Crying Fields

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    A deep dive into the history of the Canadian Government and the Department of National Defence leasing First Nations reserves as practice bombing...

    The Crying Fields
  • 2019
    There's Something in the Water

    There's Something in the Water

    There's Something in the Water

    7.12019HD

    Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his home province, in this urgent documentary on...

    There's Something in the Water
  • 2010
    Habilito: Debt for Life

    Habilito: Debt for Life

    Habilito: Debt for Life

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    Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon....

    Habilito: Debt for Life
  • 2009
    ʔEʔanx (The Cave)

    ʔEʔanx (The Cave)

    ʔEʔanx (The Cave)

    3.82009HD

    A hunter on horseback accidentally discovers a portal to another world in this fantastical true Tsilhqot'in story.

    ʔEʔanx (The Cave)
  • 1994
    Rapa Nui

    Rapa Nui

    Rapa Nui

    6.4041994HD

    Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of...

    Rapa Nui
  • 1984
    Incident at Restigouche

    Incident at Restigouche

    Incident at Restigouche

    7.51984HD

    Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation...

    Incident at Restigouche