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LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 (2014)
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Documentary

A documentary film about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native political and social activism, and is now passing on...

The Albino's Trees (2016)
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Drama

A poignant moral dilemma unfolding against lush mountainous landscapes, The Albino’s Trees follows Yuku (Ryohei Matsuoka), an animal control hunter...

Travelling (2007)
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Documentary

Nedarma (Travelling) is one of several documentary features co-directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio that portray the daily lives of...

Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance (2002)
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Documentary

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...

Nowhere Land (2015)
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Documentary

Documentary about filmmaker Bonnie Ammaaq's memories of life on Baffin Island, where her family moved for eleven years during her childhood from the...

Augusta (1976)
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Documentary

This short documentary is the portrait of an 88-year-old woman who lives alone in a log cabin without running water or electricity. Augusta is a...

Standing Alone (1982)
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Pete Standing Alone is a Blood Indian who, as a young man, was more at home in the White man's culture than his own. Confronted with the realization...

Kainai (1973)
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Documentary

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

Ayahuasca (2014)
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Three people fly from Chile and Spain to Iquitos, Peru to experience the magic of the sacred plant ayahuasca.

We Were Children (2012)
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Documentary

For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of Canada's First Nations children were legally required to attend government-funded schools run by...

Cry Rock (2010)
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Documentary

The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the...

Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos (2011)
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Documentary

Inuit traditional face tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, together with long-time...

Monica in the South Seas (2023)
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Documentary

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

Genoveva (2015)
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Documentary

A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture,...

Savages: The Story of Human Zoos (2018)
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Documentary, History

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like...

Ningwasum (2022)
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Science Fiction, Documentary

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

Totem: Return and Renewal (2007)
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Documentary

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...

Okimah (1998)
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Documentary

This documentary focuses on the goose hunt, a ritual of central importance to the Cree people of the James Bay coastal areas. Not only a source of...

Soy mestizo (2015)
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Documentary, History

The natural sciences museum of La Plata, Argentina, had indigenous people held captive as study objects in the past, and their skeletons were on...

The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence (2022)
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History, Documentary

In 1587, more than 100 English colonists settle on Roanoke Island and soon vanish, baffling historians for centuries; now, experts use the latest...