indigenous peoples movies page 5

Saving Warru (2019)
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Documentary

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...

Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle (2021)
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Documentary

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

Spirit of the Reindeer (2019)
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Documentary

The third and final part of a trilogy based on Arctic creation myths. The film is a multifaceted tissue weave of myths and traditions reflected in...

Mstitel (1931)
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Drama

Warrior Women (2018)
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Documentary

Through the figure of Lakota activist and community organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk, this inspiring film traces the untold story of countless Native...

Habilito: Debt for Life (2010)
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Documentary

Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon....

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021)
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Documentary

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

You Are on Indian Land (1969)
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Documentary

The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal...

My Name Is Kahentiiosta (1995)
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Documentary

This documentary short by Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman arrested after the Oka Crisis' 78-day...

This Was the Time (1970)
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Documentary

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

The pink indian against the invisible beast: Noel Nutels' battle (2020)
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Documentary

Public health physician Noel Nutels' ideas and the footage he made of Brazilian indigenous peoples between 1940 and 1970 come together to denounce...

Mother's Land (2021)
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Documentary, Animation

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

The Secret World of Plants (2003)
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Documentary

The secret world of plants gets us closer to these motionless and quiet creatures, so attractive and surprising as the rest of the living creatures....

Gas Can (2017)
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Drama

A Cree family in 1970s Saskatchewan must ask an old farmer for help when their car runs out of gas while moving to the city.

The Call of Fayu Ujmu (2002)
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Documentary, Drama

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...

Our People Will Be Healed (2017)
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Documentary

Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decolonization looks like in Norway House, one of...

The Chocolate Farmer (2011)
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Documentary

For ancient Mayans, cocoa was as good as gold. For subsistence farmer Eladio Pop, his cocoa crops are the only riches he has to support his wife and...

Birds in the Earth (2018)
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Drama

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 made....

In the Beginning was Water and Sky (2017)
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Drama, Fantasy, History

A haunting and visually stunning fairytale that blends the horrors of fantasy and the real life historical events of colonization and Indian Boarding...

The Education of Phyllistine (1963)
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Drama, TV Movie

An orphaned indigenous girl is taken away to an all white school so that the school can get grant money.