Indigenous Movies

  • 1959
    The Tahitian

    The Tahitian

    The Tahitian

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    A group of scientists are trying to stop a filaria epidemic spreading through a Tahitian population. They meet resistance in using western medicine...

    The Tahitian
  • 1977
    Kevin Alec

    Kevin Alec

    Kevin Alec

    01977HD

    In the mountainous country near Lillooet, British Columbia, eleven-year-old Kevin Alec of the Fountain Indian Reserve learns to make fishnets with...

    Kevin Alec
  • 2019
    Like a Mighty Wave

    Like a Mighty Wave

    Like a Mighty Wave

    92019HD

    On Wednesday, July 17th 2019, a heavily armed police force arrested 36 Native Hawaiian kūpuna peacefully protecting Maunakea from desecration....

    Like a Mighty Wave
  • 1985
    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

    01985HD

    Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow tribe's turbulent past with modern-day accounts...

    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
  • 2015
    Mother Tongue

    Mother Tongue

    Mother Tongue

    02015HD

    "Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into...

    Mother Tongue
  • 1990
    Pakatakan (route des portages)

    Pakatakan (route des portages)

    Pakatakan (route des portages)

    01990HD

    Pakatakan (route des portages)
  • 2002
    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance

    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance

    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance

    02002HD

    Men and women of the !Kung people in Ojokhoe, Namibia perform healing dances by firelight. First we see men perform the giraffe dance, and then...

    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance
  • 1988
    No Address

    No Address

    No Address

    81988HD

    This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life....

    No Address
  • 1943
    The Crow Indians on the Jesus Trail

    The Crow Indians on the Jesus Trail

    The Crow Indians on the Jesus Trail

    01943HD

    Profile of the Crow Indian Mission in Lodge Grass, Montana.

    The Crow Indians on the Jesus Trail
  • 1966
    Navajo Film Themselves

    Navajo Film Themselves

    Navajo Film Themselves

    01966HD

    Navajo Film Themselves is a series of seven short documentaries: Intrepid Shadows (1966), The Navajo Silversmith (1966), A Navajo Weaver (1966), Old...

    Navajo Film Themselves
  • 2023
    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

    02023HD

    Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...

    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot
  • 2023
    Nostalgia for the Lake

    Nostalgia for the Lake

    Nostalgia for the Lake

    62023HD

    A vision from Limbo, where the canoeist of the eternal lake floats in his boat, between sleep and wakefulness. When he sleeps, he dreams of the...

    Nostalgia for the Lake
  • 1970
    Grey Horse

    Grey Horse

    Grey Horse

    01970HD

    Samuel Grey Horse, an Indigenous equestrian from Austin, Texas, is known for rescuing horses from being put down. After a riding accident lands him...

    Grey Horse
  • 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)
  • 2009
    Nukum (grand-mère)

    Nukum (grand-mère)

    Nukum (grand-mère)

    02009HD

    Nukum (grand-mère)
  • 2009
    Savage

    Savage

    Savage

    02009HD

    On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in...

    Savage
  • 2022
    Closeness to the Land

    Closeness to the Land

    Closeness to the Land

    02022HD

    In 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Gazala purchased land in western Ohio, on which sits a disused school building. This site allowed her to...

    Closeness to the Land
  • 1970
    Nika tsheka uiten mishkut

    Nika tsheka uiten mishkut

    Nika tsheka uiten mishkut

    01970HD

    Nika tsheka uiten mishkut
  • 2025
    This Land

    This Land

    This Land

    02025HD

    In 1974 a group of Mohawk Indians occupied a defunct girls camp in New York's Adirondack mountains and established a community they called Ganienkeh....

    This Land
  • 2022
    Broken Angel

    Broken Angel

    Broken Angel

    02022HD

    Angel, a once vibrant beautiful Cree woman, becomes weary and spiritless after enduring viscous spiritual, physical, and emotional abuse from her...

    Broken Angel