Indigenous Movies

  • 2022
    The Invention of the Other

    The Invention of the Other

    The Invention of the Other

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    In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decades into the Amazon rainforest to search for a...

    The Invention of the Other
  • 2012
    Ngā Tamatoa: 40 Years On

    Ngā Tamatoa: 40 Years On

    Ngā Tamatoa: 40 Years On

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    Actor Rawiri Paratene was 16 years old when he joined Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warriors) in the early 1970s. "Those years...

    Ngā Tamatoa: 40 Years On
  • 2015
    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

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    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...

    Taking Alcatraz
  • 1987
    Mark of the Hand

    Mark of the Hand

    Mark of the Hand

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    Guyanese painter Aubrey Williams (1926-1990) returns to his homeland on a “journey to the source of his inspiration” in this vivid Arts...

    Mark of the Hand
  • 2007
    The Sacred Food

    The Sacred Food

    The Sacred Food

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    A short documentary about the Ojibwe Native Americans of Northern Minnesota and the wild rice (Manoomin) they consider a sacred gift from the...

    The Sacred Food
  • 2009
    Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i

    Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i

    Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i

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    What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of your accent? "Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i"...

    Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i
  • 1970
    Olga

    Olga

    Olga

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    Heta ysyryre gueteri jahasata. Translating from guaraní: Many ways to go! Olga inhabits this world. Just like every day, Olga gets up to have...

    Olga
  • 2024
    Praia da Saudade

    Praia da Saudade

    Praia da Saudade

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    A documentary about climate change in Brazil, especially at Atafona Beach (in the Campos de Goytacazes region), which is being swallowed up by the...

    Praia da Saudade
  • 2007
    The Invisible Nation

    The Invisible Nation

    The Invisible Nation

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    The Algonquin once lived in harmony with the vast territory they occupied. This balance was upset when the Europeans arrived in the 16th century....

    The Invisible Nation
  • 1978
    The Red Dress

    The Red Dress

    The Red Dress

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    Kelly is a Métis man without treaty or hunting rights, struggling to sustain his traditional life. His daughter Theresa longs for a red dress...

    The Red Dress
  • 1994
    En territorio extranjero

    En territorio extranjero

    En territorio extranjero

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    Two technicians foreign oil, along with the daughter of one of them, coming into the country to verify that there is a large oil field in the jungle...

    En territorio extranjero
  • 2021
    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

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    For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones...

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy
  • 1983
    The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?

    The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?

    The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?

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    Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and...

    The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
  • 2017
    500 Years

    500 Years

    500 Years

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    From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, the sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent...

    500 Years
  • 1993
    Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

    Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

    Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

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    This hour-long documentary is a provocative look at a historical event of which few Americans are aware. In mid-January, 1893, armed troops from the...

    Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation
  • 2018
    Ex-Shaman

    Ex-Shaman

    Ex-Shaman

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    Ever since their first contact with the Western world in 1969 the Paiter Suruí, an indigenous people living in the Amazon basin, have been...

    Ex-Shaman
  • 2021
    Inhabitants

    Inhabitants

    Inhabitants

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    For millennia, Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to...

    Inhabitants
  • 2019
    nîpawistamâsowin : We Will Stand Up

    nîpawistamâsowin : We Will Stand Up

    nîpawistamâsowin : We Will Stand Up

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    On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley's rural property...

    nîpawistamâsowin : We Will Stand Up
  • 2018
    Como Fotografei os Yanomami

    Como Fotografei os Yanomami

    Como Fotografei os Yanomami

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    Como Fotografei os Yanomami
  • 2017
    Angels Gather Here

    Angels Gather Here

    Angels Gather Here

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    Angels Gather Here’ follows Jacki Trapman’s journey back to her hometown of Brewarrina to celebrate her parents, Bill and Barbara’s...

    Angels Gather Here