Indigenous Peoples Movies

  • 1975
    Man Who Chooses the Bush

    Man Who Chooses the Bush

    Man Who Chooses the Bush

    01975HD

    This short documentary follows Frank Ladouceur, a man who lives alone for months at a time, trapping muskrat in the vast, desolate wilderness of...

    Man Who Chooses the Bush
  • 2010
    Round Up

    Round Up

    Round Up

    02010HD

    This short film traces Pete Standing Alone's personal journey from cultural alienation to pride and belonging. As a spiritual elder, teacher and...

    Round Up
  • 2010
    Habilito: Debt for Life

    Habilito: Debt for Life

    Habilito: Debt for Life

    02010HD

    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
  • 2022
    Colebrook: A Place of Healing & Learning

    Colebrook: A Place of Healing & Learning

    Colebrook: A Place of Healing & Learning

    02022HD

    Colebrook Blackwood Reconciliation Park is where the Colebrook Training Home once stood. It is now a permanent memorial for the Aboriginal children...

    Colebrook: A Place of Healing & Learning
  • 2015
    Violet

    Violet

    Violet

    82015HD

    An escaped mental patient dies in 1984 at the home of her former doctor. But that was just the beginning.

    Violet
  • 2018
    Birds in the Earth

    Birds in the Earth

    Birds in the Earth

    6.82018HD

    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...

    Birds in the Earth
  • 2008
    Two villages, one single walk

    Two villages, one single walk

    Two villages, one single walk

    102008HD

    With no Forest left to hunt and no land to cultivate, the Maby-Guarani depend on the sale of their handcraft to survive. Three young Guarani...

    Two villages, one single walk
  • 1955
    No Longer Vanishing

    No Longer Vanishing

    No Longer Vanishing

    01955HD

    No Longer Vanishing
  • 2013
    Flor Brilhante e as Cicatrizes da Pedra

    Flor Brilhante e as Cicatrizes da Pedra

    Flor Brilhante e as Cicatrizes da Pedra

    52013HD

    Flor Brilhante e as Cicatrizes da Pedra
  • 1998
    La isla del Infierno

    La isla del Infierno

    La isla del Infierno

    6.51998HD

    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...

    La isla del Infierno
  • 2007
    Totem: Return and Renewal

    Totem: Return and Renewal

    Totem: Return and Renewal

    82007HD

    In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal documents the events of the final journey of the...

    Totem: Return and Renewal
  • 2019
    Saving Warru

    Saving Warru

    Saving Warru

    02019HD

    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...

    Saving Warru
  • 2002
    The Call of Fayu Ujmu

    The Call of Fayu Ujmu

    The Call of Fayu Ujmu

    02002HD

    A 13-year-old Indian boy is found unconscious after being attacked in the jungle by the evil spirit Fayu Ujmu. A shaman attempts to ritually tame the...

    The Call of Fayu Ujmu
  • 2020
    Cholitas

    Cholitas

    Cholitas

    72020HD

    Five Bolivian indigenous women share one goal: climbing the highest mountain in America.

    Cholitas
  • 2017
    In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School

    In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School

    In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School

    02017HD

    A poignant all-Indigenous English and Cree-English collaborative documentary that breaks long-held silences imposed upon indigenous children who were...

    In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School
  • 1978
    Wood Mountain Poems

    Wood Mountain Poems

    Wood Mountain Poems

    01978HD

    In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In...

    Wood Mountain Poems
  • 1970
    The Primal Mind

    The Primal Mind

    The Primal Mind

    01970HD

    Written and hosted by Jack Marks, an American Jewish author who misrepresented himself as Native American; this PBS documentary examines the...

    The Primal Mind
  • 2016
    Way of Giants

    Way of Giants

    Way of Giants

    8.72016HD

    In a forest of giant trees, six-year-old Oquirá embarks on a quest to understand life.

    Way of Giants
  • 1995
    Our Indians

    Our Indians

    Our Indians

    5.51995HD

    Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how...

    Our Indians
  • 1973
    Kainai

    Kainai

    Kainai

    01973HD

    On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western...

    Kainai