Indigenous Peoples Movies

  • 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
  • 1996
    Place of the Boss: Utshimassits

    Place of the Boss: Utshimassits

    Place of the Boss: Utshimassits

    01996HD

    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...

    Place of the Boss: Utshimassits
  • 2015
    Amazonia: Healing with Sacred Plants

    Amazonia: Healing with Sacred Plants

    Amazonia: Healing with Sacred Plants

    02015HD

    Psychologist and anthropologist Alberto Villoldo talks with traditional healers of Madre de Dios, a department within in Peruvian Amazonia. They and...

    Amazonia: Healing with Sacred Plants
  • 1970
    This Was the Time

    This Was the Time

    This Was the Time

    01970HD

    Masset, a Haida village in the Queen Charlotte Islands, holds a potlatch.

    This Was the Time
  • 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
  • 2000
    Seven Songs from the Tundra

    Seven Songs from the Tundra

    Seven Songs from the Tundra

    6.42000HD

    An anthology of stories about the indigenous nomadic people of the Russian tundra under modern Communist rule. Finland's submission for the Academy...

    Seven Songs from the Tundra
  • 2021
    Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle

    Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle

    Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle

    72021HD

    The AssimiNation is a political pamphlet portraying the indigenous Sámi people fighting for their existence. The film follows the on going...

    Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle
  • 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
  • 2019
    Spears from All Sides

    Spears from All Sides

    Spears from All Sides

    02019HD

    Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian...

    Spears from All Sides
  • 1955
    No Longer Vanishing

    No Longer Vanishing

    No Longer Vanishing

    01955HD

    No Longer Vanishing
  • 1975
    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

    01975HD

    Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the...

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
  • 1980
    Nose and Tina

    Nose and Tina

    Nose and Tina

    01980HD

    The unusual story of Nose and Tina, 2 people in love. He is employed as a brakeman, she as a sex worker.

    Nose and Tina
  • 1931
    Mstitel

    Mstitel

    Mstitel

    01931HD

    Mstitel
  • 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
  • 2021
    Mother's Land

    Mother's Land

    Mother's Land

    02021HD

    Waking up in a nightmare before the sunrise of December 30, 2020, the indigenous community of the Tumandok was suddenly surrounded by fear. Panambi...

    Mother's Land
  • 2022
    Heartbeat of a Nation

    Heartbeat of a Nation

    Heartbeat of a Nation

    02022HD

    A short documentary that celebrates Dene cultural reclamation and revitalization, in which a father passes on traditional knowledge to his child...

    Heartbeat of a Nation
  • 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
  • 2004
    One of Many

    One of Many

    One of Many

    72004HD

    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...

    One of Many
  • 2023
    Wërapara

    Wërapara

    Wërapara

    02023HD

    Amidst the Colombian Andes, a group of trans women from the Embera Chami community make their way into the international fashion scene, empowered...

    Wërapara
  • 2022
    Ningwasum

    Ningwasum

    Ningwasum

    02022HD

    Ningwasum follows two time travellers Miksam and Mingsoma, played by Subin Limbu and Shanta Nepali respectively, in the Himalayas weaving indigenous...

    Ningwasum