Indigenous Peoples Movies
- 1975
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance01975HD
Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the...
- 1978
Wood Mountain Poems
Wood Mountain Poems01978HD
In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In...
- 1998
La isla del Infierno
La isla del Infierno6.51998HD
A young slave whishes returning to his homeland, the Canary Islands, after twenty years of captivity in Spain. For that reason he will travel as...
- 1982
Land der Bitterkeit und des Stolzes
Land der Bitterkeit und des Stolzes01982HD
- 2018
Birds in the Earth
Birds in the Earth6.82018HD
Sami dance students Birit and Katja Haarla dance through the villages and lost woods of Sápmi all the way to where the important decisions are...
- 2017
One Heart: One Spirit
One Heart: One Spirit02017HD
An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thompson, One Heart-One Spirit tells the story of...
- 1974
The Paradox of Norval Morrisseau
The Paradox of Norval Morrisseau01974HD
In this revealing study of Norval Morrisseau, filmed as he works among the lakes and woodlands of his ancestors, we see a remarkable Indigenous...
- 2017
Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film02017HD
The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put...
- 2019
Saving Warru
Saving Warru02019HD
Warru, or black-footed rock-wallaby, is one of South Australia's most endangered mammals. In 2007, when numbers dropped below 200 in the APY Lands in...
- 1980
Nose and Tina
Nose and Tina01980HD
The unusual story of Nose and Tina, 2 people in love. He is employed as a brakeman, she as a sex worker.
- 2022
Ningwasum
Ningwasum02022HD
Ningwasum follows two time travellers Miksam and Mingsoma, played by Subin Limbu and Shanta Nepali respectively, in the Himalayas weaving indigenous...
- 2019
Spears from All Sides
Spears from All Sides02019HD
Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian...
- 1953
Funeral Bororo
Funeral Bororo01953HD
- 1996
Place of the Boss: Utshimassits
Place of the Boss: Utshimassits01996HD
In the '60s, the Mushuau Innu had to abandon their 6,000-year nomadic culture and settle in Davis Inlet. Their relocation resulted in cultural...
- 2019
Spirit of the Reindeer
Spirit of the Reindeer02019HD
The third and final part of a trilogy based on Arctic creation myths. The film is a multifaceted tissue weave of myths and traditions reflected in...
- 2021
Mother's Land
Mother's Land02021HD
Waking up in a nightmare before the sunrise of December 30, 2020, the indigenous community of the Tumandok was suddenly surrounded by fear. Panambi...
- 2000
Seven Songs from the Tundra
Seven Songs from the Tundra6.42000HD
An anthology of stories about the indigenous nomadic people of the Russian tundra under modern Communist rule. Finland's submission for the Academy...
- 2017
In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School
In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School02017HD
A poignant all-Indigenous English and Cree-English collaborative documentary that breaks long-held silences imposed upon indigenous children who were...
- 1970
This Was the Time
This Was the Time01970HD
Masset, a Haida village in the Queen Charlotte Islands, holds a potlatch.
- 2004
One of Many
One of Many72004HD
A woman with indiginous roots in her 40s goes on a trip into her past: When she was four years old she had been taken away from her mother by the...