Inuit Movies

  • 2005
    Urban Inuk

    Urban Inuk

    Urban Inuk

    02005HD

    Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk) follows the lives of three Inuit in Montreal over the course of one hot and humid summer.Only two generations ago Inuit...

    Urban Inuk
  • 1932
    Fishing in Greenland

    Fishing in Greenland

    Fishing in Greenland

    01932HD

    Danish documentary that follows fishermen in Greenland, from the time when fishing got industrialized. The filmcrew also captures ships fighting the...

    Fishing in Greenland
  • 1944
    Arctic Hunters

    Arctic Hunters

    Arctic Hunters

    01944HD

    The hunting habits of the Inuit in the eastern Arctic.

    Arctic Hunters
  • 2016
    Kivalina

    Kivalina

    Kivalina

    5.52016HD

    The rarely seen lives of an Arctic tribe who try to continue to honor their way of life 80 miles above the Arctic Circle on a fragile barrier island...

    Kivalina
  • 2011
    Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves

    Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves

    Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves

    02011HD

    It begins as an average hunting trip for two young men, but when they find themselves lost, the only safe haven to be found for miles—a...

    Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves
  • 2013
    The Orphan and the Polar Bear

    The Orphan and the Polar Bear

    The Orphan and the Polar Bear

    02013HD

    According to Inuit oral history, long ago animals had the power of speech, could shift their appearances, and could even assume human form. In The...

    The Orphan and the Polar Bear
  • 1979
    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    01979HD

    In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, the daily hunt, fishing scenes and children at play...

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe
  • 1988
    Nanook Revisited

    Nanook Revisited

    Nanook Revisited

    01988HD

    Filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North in the early twentieth century, and examine the...

    Nanook Revisited
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, V: At the Winter Sea Ice Camp

    Netsilik Eskimos, V: At the Winter Sea Ice Camp

    Netsilik Eskimos, V: At the Winter Sea Ice Camp

    4.71967HD

    In late winter when the cold is severe, the people and dogs are glad to stop their trek and make camp. In the blue dusk the men probe the snow and...

    Netsilik Eskimos, V: At the Winter Sea Ice Camp
  • 1943
    Eskimo Arts and Crafts

    Eskimo Arts and Crafts

    Eskimo Arts and Crafts

    01943HD

    How Inuit peoples perform arts and crafts, on the island of Baffin Island on what is now the territory of Nanavut.

    Eskimo Arts and Crafts
  • 2016
    The Owl and the Lemming

    The Owl and the Lemming

    The Owl and the Lemming

    02016HD

    The oral history of Inuit is filled with many folktales, legends, and myths. In this traditional story, a young owl catches a lemming to eat. Inuit...

    The Owl and the Lemming
  • 2014
    The Big Lemming

    The Big Lemming

    The Big Lemming

    02014HD

    A stop-motion short tells the story of a male owl, driven by hunger, as he goes in search of food in a late-spring snowstorm - but in his pursuit he...

    The Big Lemming
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

    61967HD

    The family is on the shore of Pelly Bay in May-June. A seal basks beside its hole under a warming sun. The hunter stalks the seal, kills it and drags...

    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    5.51967HD

    Full summer, and the tundra is bare; skin tents are up and it is time to attend to the fishing as the fish move upstream. The men are in the river,...

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir
  • 1914
    Greenland, 1914

    Greenland, 1914

    Greenland, 1914

    01914HD

    Danish documentary following different locations and situations in Greenland anno 1914. It comes around settlements, hunters, steamboats, umiaks, a...

    Greenland, 1914
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    51967HD

    Now it is July - summer. The run-off is in full spate and open water shows offshore. Ice cakes melt on the shingle. On the bay are ducks. It is time...

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak