Indigenous Movies
- 2022
This Place
This Place5.42022HD
Living in the liminal space between worlds, two young women find themselves falling in love for the first time, while also being forced to...
- 2012
Ngā Tamatoa: 40 Years On
Ngā Tamatoa: 40 Years On02012HD
Actor Rawiri Paratene was 16 years old when he joined Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warriors) in the early 1970s. "Those years...
- 1983
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?01983HD
Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and...
- 2020
Elementa
Elementa6.52020HD
A black-and-white visual meditation of wilderness and the elements. Wildlife filmmaker Richard Sidey returns to the triptych format for a cinematic...
- 1986
Ikwe
Ikwe11986HD
A young Ojibwa girl from 1770 marries a Scottish fur trader and leaves home for the shores of Georgian Bay. Although the union is beneficial for her...
- 2021
maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore52021HD
An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their...
- 2025
Blood Lines
Blood Lines02025HD
Whilst embarking on a lesbian relationship with the new girl in town, a Métis woman’s life is rocked to the core when her estranged...
- 2022
For Love
For Love7.52022HD
In this searing documentary, Indigenous people share heartbreaking stories that reveal the injustices inflicted by the Canadian child welfare system.
- 2016
When Two Worlds Collide
When Two Worlds Collide7.32016HD
In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will...
- 1978
New World
New World5.81978HD
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous...
- 2023
We Will Speak
We Will Speak102023HD
The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas...
- 2000
Rocks at Whiskey Trench
Rocks at Whiskey Trench6.32000HD
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...
- 2011
That Which Once Was
That Which Once Was02011HD
In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted...
- 2020
Parallel Minds
Parallel Minds5.52020HD
In the near future, technology firm Red-Eye is on the verge of developing a revolutionary contact lens that records human sight to replicate...
- 2003
Is the Crown at war with us?
Is the Crown at war with us?6.52003HD
In the summer of 2000, federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'gmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of...
- 2017
Crazywise
Crazywise62017HD
Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers Phil Borges and Kevin Tomlinson reveal a growing...
- 2024
Red Fever
Red Fever02024HD
Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound -- yet hidden -- Indigenous influence on Western culture and identity....
- 2021
Inhabitants
Inhabitants92021HD
For millennia, Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to...
- 2023
Against the Tide
Against the Tide6.52023HD
Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different...
- 2021
Portraits from a Fire
Portraits from a Fire62021HD
An Indigenous teenage boy fights through distorting realities as a family secret unravels.