Indigenous Community Movies

  • 1992
    Battle for the Trees

    Battle for the Trees

    Battle for the Trees

    01992HD

    This documentary examines the battle strategies of citizens, scientists, loggers, environmentalists and First Nations people who are fighting over...

    Battle for the Trees
  • 2016
    Train leaves two towns

    Train leaves two towns

    Train leaves two towns

    52016HD

    In Ecuador, in a single day, the train passes from the mountainous Andes to the tropical coast. The roads were built between 1861 and 1908 to connect...

    Train leaves two towns
  • 2023
    Ozogoche

    Ozogoche

    Ozogoche

    02023HD

    Cuviví is the Ecuadorean indigenous name for the upland sandpiper, a wading bird that has special significance for the communities living...

    Ozogoche
  • 2023
    Bancoco

    Bancoco

    Bancoco

    02023HD

    A New Yorker journeys to the jungle in the Darien Gap of Panama to reconnect with an indigenous tribe he met and photographed 20 years ago. Their...

    Bancoco
  • 1970
    Healing the nation

    Healing the nation

    Healing the nation

    01970HD

    Healing the Nation follows community members of the Toronto-based Aboriginal Healing Program as they rediscover their culture to heal from unresolved...

    Healing the nation
  • 2022
    Motherland Memories

    Motherland Memories

    Motherland Memories

    02022HD

    Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that...

    Motherland Memories
  • 2018
    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência

    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência

    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência

    02018HD

    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência
  • 1947
    Os Carajá

    Os Carajá

    Os Carajá

    01947HD

    Os Carajá
  • 2025
    Thayara

    Thayara

    Thayara

    02025HD

    Thayara
  • 2023
    Castanho

    Castanho

    Castanho

    02023HD

    Living in the countryside of the Amazon in Brazil, Argentinian María divides herself between two lives: in the community, where she lives with...

    Castanho
  • 2005
    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

    02005HD

    In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance,...

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
  • 2025
    Lost Songs of Sundari

    Lost Songs of Sundari

    Lost Songs of Sundari

    02025HD

    In Mumbai, once an island city linked by the sea, modern bridges and land reclamation have reshaped the landscape, disrupting the lives of its...

    Lost Songs of Sundari
  • 2020
    Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia

    Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia

    Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia

    02020HD

    Andean communities fight to protect their water from contamination by mining companies.

    Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia
  • 2008
    Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back

    Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back

    Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back

    02008HD

    For over 50 years, the Kahnawake Mohawks, of Quebec, Canada occupied a 10 square block area in the North Gowanus section of Brooklyn, which became...

    Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back
  • 2020
    Mother River

    Mother River

    Mother River

    02020HD

    In a remote Peruvian city, lives Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent who sells candies more than 20 years ago, with the rain will...

    Mother River
  • 2024
    Waira

    Waira

    Waira

    02024HD

    In an isolated community, a young indigenous woman fights for her freedom after enduring sexual assaults. Confronted with a life-altering decision,...

    Waira
  • 2013
    I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again

    I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again

    I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again

    92013HD

    A documentary that tells the story of five American Indian artists, the Urban Indian 5 (UI5), and their unique partnership.

    I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again
  • 2022
    This Is Not a Ceremony

    This Is Not a Ceremony

    This Is Not a Ceremony

    02022HD

    This cinematic VR experience offers insights into the struggles and conflicts of growing up an Indigenous man.

    This Is Not a Ceremony
  • 2024
    Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo

    Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo

    Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo

    02024HD

    A cinematic wonder & incredible opportunity to learn about Indigenous ways of knowing. A group of puppeteers are transformed by their experience of...

    Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo
  • 1988
    Tiag

    Tiag

    Tiag

    01988HD

    Based on the work of Monsignor Leónidas Proaño, Bishop of Riobamba, the daily life of an indigenous community is presented. His family...

    Tiag