indigenous rights movies

Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
6.9 / 10

Drama

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are...

Taking Alcatraz (2015)
0 / 10

Documentary

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...

People Unite! (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary

In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, People of Color organizers come together to...

The Last Ice (2020)
8.6 / 10

Documentary

For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada...

Trouble In The Garden (2019)
8 / 10

Drama

A jailed activist is bailed out by her brother, who happens to be involved with the very land development she was protesting.

The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs (2011)
0 / 10

Documentary, History

Personal accounts from the Alta actions in the years 1979 to 1981. Large police forces were deployed against the demonstrators. The dispute over the...

Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance (1993)
7.3 / 10

Documentary

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic...

The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims (1969)
0 / 10

Documentary

"A documentary film which looks at the issue of British Columbia Native land claims and how the aboriginals link their culture to the land, which has...

Surviving Columbus (1992)
0 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People follows the past 450 years of Pueblo history. It explores the Spanish colonial period of the 18th...

Here Where It All Ends (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary

"Here Where It All Ends" is an experimental, poetic short film that moves between documentary and fiction to address an endangered culture, that of...

Xondaros - Guarani Resistance (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama

The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the...

Motherland Memories (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary

Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that...

Svonni vs the Swedish Tax Agency (2020)
4.5 / 10

Documentary

A Sámi woman fights for her right to claim a tax deduction against the purchase of a dog. Why the Swedish authorities fail to recognize the dog's...

Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance (1975)
0 / 10

Documentary

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

No Turning Back (1996)
0 / 10

Documentary

This film follows the aftermath of the Oka crisis, which brought Indigenous rights into sharp focus. After the barricades came down, the Royal...

Invasion (2020)
8.3 / 10

Documentary

In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger...

The Burden of Being (2014)
0 / 10

Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama

In the year 2061, where only one utilitarian race -- known as 'The Nation' -- is recognized, a Native American man is imprisoned for speaking his...

Idle no More (2017)
0 / 10

Documentary

Ginger Côté uses the words of Heather Archibald, an activist who grew up in foster care and who died, to honor the memory of the young woman and...

Our Land Is Our Life (1974)
0 / 10

In March, 1974, the Cree of the Mistassini area in northern Québec met to discuss their long-term future. After three hundred years of minimal...

Powwow at Duck Lake (1967)
0 / 10

This powerful short documentary showing Indigenous youth resistance and emerging voices that will continue to define the landscape of Indigenous...