Native American Reservation Movies

Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

The American Southwest holds a dark legacy as the place where nuclear weapons were invented and built. Navajo people have long held this place...

A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.

The lives of a Native woman and a troubled young boy intersect over the course of a school day on a reservation in Oklahoma.

The fourth film in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Oka crisis uses a single, shameful incident as a lens through which to examine the...

Following four Lakota families over three years, Homeland explores what it takes for the Lakota community to build a better future in the face of...

Examines the violence and civil disobedience leading up to the hallmark decision in U.S. v. Washington, with particular reference to the Nisqually...

The Yellow Eagle family are Native American and live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. News reaches them that Floyd, the youngest son of the...

A film made by Victress Hitchcock and Ava Hamilton in 1989 on the Wind River Reservation for Wyoming Public Television.

A riveting documentary detailing the case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, a Native American woman who disappeared in 2020. Her story exposes how...

A lost film based on the 'Reign of Terror', a real-life series of several dozen murders committed against the Osage people. 'Tragedies of the Osage...

In 1934 on the serene Navajo reservation, Mary Jane spends her time daydreaming and tending to her family's flock of sheep. When her older sister...

When the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family...

Documentary about the Red Lake school shooting and its perpetrator, Jeff Weise.

A Video about a horse race held every year, during the second week of August, in Omak, Washington as a part of the Omak Stampede, a rodeo. Held for...

Anita grew up on the Seneca Indian reservation, and for the first time ever, she's bringing her partner Rachel to meet her parents.

A short documentary about Americans with Native American and Finnish heritage.

FRONTLINE and The Wall Street Journal investigate the decades-long failure to stop a government doctor accused of sexually abusing Native American...

It explores the effect that methamphetamine has had on the Navajo Nation and interviews the people whose lives have been affected by the highly...