Indigenous Peoples Movies
- 2004

Shellmound
Shellmound92004HD
“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic cultures to a commercial mecca for...
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- 2007

Totem: Return and Renewal
Totem: Return and Renewal82007HD
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...
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- 2020

Highway of Tears
Highway of Tears02020HD
Discover the endless highway in British Columbia where over 40 indigenous women and girls (by unofficial estimates) have disappeared since the 1970s.
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- 2023

Mborairapé
Mborairapé02023HD
RAP is a music path. Jaraguá is Guarani.
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- 2024

Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo
Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo02024HD
A cinematic wonder & incredible opportunity to learn about Indigenous ways of knowing. A group of puppeteers are transformed by their experience of...
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- 2018

Savages: The Story of Human Zoos
Savages: The Story of Human Zoos7.82018HD
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...
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- 1975

Cold Journey
Cold Journey91975HD
In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him...
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- 2000

Seven Songs from the Tundra
Seven Songs from the Tundra6.62000HD
An anthology of stories about the indigenous Nenet peoples of the Northern Russian tundra, and how their way of life was disrupted by the advent of...
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- 2012

Ang Babae sa Likod ng Mambabatok
Ang Babae sa Likod ng Mambabatok02012HD
Ang Babae sa Likod ng Mambabatok unravels the multiple layers of the almost mythological figure-living legend, Fang Od, a 92 year old woman who has...
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- 1974

Cree Hunters of Mistassini
Cree Hunters of Mistassini7.71974HD
An NFB crew filmed a group of three families, Cree hunters from Mistassini. Since times predating agriculture, this First Nations people have gone to...
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- 2012

Despertar de los restos
Despertar de los restos72012HD
A stop-motion documentary that describes the artificial mummification (black and red mummies) of the Chinchorro culture, a pre-hispanic society of...
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- 2024

Ainu Puri
Ainu Puri02024HD
Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teaches his son Motoki about their heritage. But how...
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- 2020

Spirit of Itchi
Spirit of Itchi3.92020HD
XIX century. A big misfortune happened on the land of one wealthy family in Yakutia. As time passed, fear was forgotten and farmers started settling...
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- 2023

Wërapara
Wërapara02023HD
Amidst the Colombian Andes, a group of trans women from the Embera Chami community make their way into the international fashion scene, empowered...
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- 1995

Our Indians
Our Indians61995HD
Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how...
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- 1979

Bill Reid
Bill Reid71979HD
Follows Haida artist Bill Reid, from British Columbia. A jeweller and wood carver, he works on a traditional Haida totem pole. We watch the gradual...
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- 2024

Resident Orca
Resident Orca02024HD
Resident Orca tells the unfolding story of a captive whale’s fight for survival and freedom. After decades of failed attempts to bring her...
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- 2020

Svonni vs Skatteverket
Svonni vs Skatteverket4.52020HD
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...
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- 2022

Still We Rise
Still We Rise02022HD
50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the world. Taking a fresh lens this is a bold dive into...
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- 1978

Wood Mountain Poems
Wood Mountain Poems71978HD
In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In...
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