Indigenous Movies

  • 2023
    Soleil de nuit

    Soleil de nuit

    Soleil de nuit

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    During a training exercise in an abandoned open-pit mine, a crew of Canadian astronauts are interrupted by an Atikamekw elder, who asks them to...

    Soleil de nuit
  • 2015
    Mother Tongue

    Mother Tongue

    Mother Tongue

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

    Mother Tongue
  • 2018
    Amá

    Amá

    Amá

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    Amá is a feature length documentary which tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the...

    Amá
  • 2021
    Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

    Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

    Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

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    Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and...

    Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
  • 2018
    Growing Native Great Lakes: Turtle Island

    Growing Native Great Lakes: Turtle Island

    Growing Native Great Lakes: Turtle Island

    02018HD

    The Great Lakes and connecting waterways have remained the center of traditional and contemporary economies for centuries. Meet the Ojibwe and a...

    Growing Native Great Lakes: Turtle Island
  • 2022
    No Māori Allowed

    No Māori Allowed

    No Māori Allowed

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    When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their...

    No Māori Allowed
  • 1983
    When the Mountains Tremble

    When the Mountains Tremble

    When the Mountains Tremble

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    A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta...

    When the Mountains Tremble
  • 2015
    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

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    A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as...

    Taking Alcatraz
  • 2007
    The Sacred Food

    The Sacred Food

    The Sacred Food

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    A short documentary about the Ojibwe Native Americans of Northern Minnesota and the wild rice (Manoomin) they consider a sacred gift from the...

    The Sacred Food
  • 2017
    Angels Gather Here

    Angels Gather Here

    Angels Gather Here

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    Angels Gather Here’ follows Jacki Trapman’s journey back to her hometown of Brewarrina to celebrate her parents, Bill and Barbara’s...

    Angels Gather Here
  • 2007
    Totem: Return and Renewal

    Totem: Return and Renewal

    Totem: Return and Renewal

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    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
  • 2022
    The Pretendians

    The Pretendians

    The Pretendians

    02022HD

    Anishinaabe author Drew Hayden Taylor investigates how — and why — Indigenous identity, culture and art are being appropriated by those...

    The Pretendians
  • 2005
    Smudge

    Smudge

    Smudge

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    This short documentary follows three Indigenous women as they practice ancestral forms of worship: drumming, singing, and using sweetgrass. These...

    Smudge
  • 2016
    Batailles

    Batailles

    Batailles

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    Batailles
  • 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
  • 1977
    Nanook Taxi

    Nanook Taxi

    Nanook Taxi

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    Ningiuksiak, an Inuk who lives in the settlement of Cape Dorset, is on a hunt with his family. On his way back to Cape Dorset, Ningiuksiak's...

    Nanook Taxi
  • 2019
    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within

    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within

    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within

    02019HD

    For four years, the Jicarilla Apache Nation's Johnson O'Malley program, led by Lynn Roanhorse, and Holt Hamilton Films have joined forces to...

    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within
  • 2018
    Growing Native Alaska: People of the North

    Growing Native Alaska: People of the North

    Growing Native Alaska: People of the North

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    All across Alaska, Native cultures have depended on the abundant natural resources found there to support their families, cultures and way of life....

    Growing Native Alaska: People of the North
  • 2022
    Once Upon a Time in the Bay

    Once Upon a Time in the Bay

    Once Upon a Time in the Bay

    02022HD

    When two LGBTQ+ Indigenous friends desperately search for fellow gay people in a straight-ass NZ beach town, they find that the true pot of gold at...

    Once Upon a Time in the Bay
  • 2012
    Le nord au coeur

    Le nord au coeur

    Le nord au coeur

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    Le nord au coeur