Indigenous Movies

  • 2020
    Stories Are in Our Bones

    Stories Are in Our Bones

    Stories Are in Our Bones

    02020HD

    In this layered short film, filmmaker Janine Windolph takes her young sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother), a residential school survivor who...

    Stories Are in Our Bones
  • 1983
    Les six saisons des attikameks

    Les six saisons des attikameks

    Les six saisons des attikameks

    01983HD

    Les six saisons des attikameks
  • 1943
    The Crow Indians on the Jesus Trail

    The Crow Indians on the Jesus Trail

    The Crow Indians on the Jesus Trail

    01943HD

    Profile of the Crow Indian Mission in Lodge Grass, Montana.

    The Crow Indians on the Jesus Trail
  • 2017
    Miro

    Miro

    Miro

    02017HD

    When Miro returns home at the end of World War II he finds his land taken, his people gone, his daughter stolen and his service record treated with...

    Miro
  • 2016
    INAATE/SE/

    INAATE/SE/

    INAATE/SE/

    4.52016HD

    INAATE/SE/ re-imagines an ancient Ojibway story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans. A...

    INAATE/SE/
  • 2017
    Keep Talking

    Keep Talking

    Keep Talking

    82017HD

    Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture while confronting their...

    Keep Talking
  • 2018
    Acoustic Ocean

    Acoustic Ocean

    Acoustic Ocean

    02018HD

    Acoustic Ocean is an artistic exploration of the sonic ecology of marine life in the North Atlantic. Located on the Lofoten Islands in Northern...

    Acoustic Ocean
  • 2021
    Before They Fall

    Before They Fall

    Before They Fall

    02021HD

    Conservation groups, First Nations, and scientists come together in this timely short film, as a decades-long battle to protect endangered old-growth...

    Before They Fall
  • 2023
    Against the Tide

    Against the Tide

    Against the Tide

    6.52023HD

    Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different...

    Against the Tide
  • 2021
    The Trip

    The Trip

    The Trip

    6.12021HD

    In this honest and deeply personal account of living with addiction, a young man talks about the realities and challenges of living in the...

    The Trip
  • 1970
    Resilience

    Resilience

    Resilience

    01970HD

    Resilience is dedicated to those whose lives have been fragmented by intergenerational trauma, but who wish to break the cycle.

    Resilience
  • 2018
    To Wake Up the Nakota Language

    To Wake Up the Nakota Language

    To Wake Up the Nakota Language

    02018HD

    “When you don’t know your language or your culture, you don’t know who you are,” says 69-year-old Armand McArthur, one of the...

    To Wake Up the Nakota Language
  • 2008
    Club Native

    Club Native

    Club Native

    02008HD

    With moving stories from a range of characters from her Kahnawake Reserve, Mohawk filmmaker, Tracey Deer, reveals the divisive legacy of more than a...

    Club Native
  • 2024
    Burnt Country

    Burnt Country

    Burnt Country

    02024HD

    Could Australia's past help secure its future? 65,000 years in the making, Burnt Country is about fighting fire, with fire. Exploring the profound...

    Burnt Country
  • 1979
    A Pinto for the Prince

    A Pinto for the Prince

    A Pinto for the Prince

    01979HD

    In 1977, Prince Charles was inducted as honorary chief of the Blood Indians on their reserve in southwestern Alberta. The ceremony, conducted in the...

    A Pinto for the Prince
  • 2009
    Savage

    Savage

    Savage

    02009HD

    On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in...

    Savage
  • 2020
    The Song of the Butterflies

    The Song of the Butterflies

    The Song of the Butterflies

    02020HD

    Rember Yahuarcani is an indigenous artist from the Uitoto Nation who lives in Lima, Peru. From his clan, the White Heron, only two families remain in...

    The Song of the Butterflies
  • 1966
    Navajo Film Themselves

    Navajo Film Themselves

    Navajo Film Themselves

    01966HD

    Navajo Film Themselves is a series of seven short documentaries: Intrepid Shadows (1966), The Navajo Silversmith (1966), A Navajo Weaver (1966), Old...

    Navajo Film Themselves
  • 2007
    Tkaronto

    Tkaronto

    Tkaronto

    02007HD

    Far from home and struggling to reconcile their Native identities with non-Native culture, Ray and Jolene negotiate a growing attraction as they're...

    Tkaronto
  • 2009
    ʔEʔanx (The Cave)

    ʔEʔanx (The Cave)

    ʔEʔanx (The Cave)

    3.82009HD

    A hunter on horseback accidentally discovers a portal to another world in this fantastical true Tsilhqot'in story.

    ʔEʔanx (The Cave)