First Nations Movies

  • 1961
    Daniel Boone: The Wilderness Road

    Daniel Boone: The Wilderness Road

    Daniel Boone: The Wilderness Road

    01961HD

    Daniel and his friends have troubles with Indians on their way to Kentucky.

    Daniel Boone: The Wilderness Road
  • 1999
    Deep Inside Clint Star

    Deep Inside Clint Star

    Deep Inside Clint Star

    5.21999HD

    Director Clint Alberta takes us on a hilarious and bittersweet journey into the hearts and minds of some very ordinary, extraordinary young...

    Deep Inside Clint Star
  • 2018
    Indian Rights for Indian Women

    Indian Rights for Indian Women

    Indian Rights for Indian Women

    02018HD

    Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

    Indian Rights for Indian Women
  • 1974
    Shokee, the Everglades Panther

    Shokee, the Everglades Panther

    Shokee, the Everglades Panther

    01974HD

    A Seminole boy spending the summer alone in the Everglades as a rite of passage helps a lost panther cub survive, but the village does not welcome...

    Shokee, the Everglades Panther
  • 1995
    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

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    In 1953 the Canadian government relocated Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic, promising an abundance of game and fish and...

    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation
  • 1973
    Kainai

    Kainai

    Kainai

    01973HD

    On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western...

    Kainai
  • 2004
    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

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    Filmmaker Kevin McMahon accompanies the Haida delegation on a repatriation trip to Chicago in 2003. His film reveals the whole repatriation process...

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii
  • 2022
    The Lake of Scars

    The Lake of Scars

    The Lake of Scars

    5.32022HD

    In a corner of regional Victoria exists a place of astounding natural beauty, archaeological significance and age-old culture. But the Indigenous...

    The Lake of Scars
  • 1944
    Totems

    Totems

    Totems

    01944HD

    For Indigenous peoples the totem pole is the symbol of life, portraying the relationship between humans and animals. Fitting into the landscape of...

    Totems
  • 2015
    Redfern Now: Promise Me

    Redfern Now: Promise Me

    Redfern Now: Promise Me

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    Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the different ways they deal with the crime.

    Redfern Now: Promise Me
  • 2020
    Nin E Tepueian: My Cry

    Nin E Tepueian: My Cry

    Nin E Tepueian: My Cry

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    NIN E TEPUEIAN - MY CRY is a documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, at a pivotal time in...

    Nin E Tepueian: My Cry
  • 2018
    Fast Horse

    Fast Horse

    Fast Horse

    72018HD

    The Blackfoot bareback horse-racing tradition returns in the astonishingly dangerous Indian Relay. Siksika horseman Allison Red Crow struggles with...

    Fast Horse
  • 2009
    A Tent on Mars

    A Tent on Mars

    A Tent on Mars

    72009HD

    Three decades after the shuttering of the mining town of Schefferville, the Innu people, who moved in after the non-natives abandoned the town, are...

    A Tent on Mars
  • 1964
    Haida Carver

    Haida Carver

    Haida Carver

    91964HD

    On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film...

    Haida Carver
  • 1991
    Women in the Shadows

    Women in the Shadows

    Women in the Shadows

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    Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces the filmmaker's quest for her Native foremothers...

    Women in the Shadows
  • 2022
    Bunk #7

    Bunk #7

    Bunk #7

    02022HD

    Documentary about the production of Bunk #7.

    Bunk #7
  • 2021
    Desert Metal Dreaming

    Desert Metal Dreaming

    Desert Metal Dreaming

    02021HD

    The most isolated metal band in the world, Southeast Desert Metal, and their Aunty Kathleen, share ancient Arrernte culture with the world through...

    Desert Metal Dreaming
  • 2008
    Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back

    Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back

    Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back

    02008HD

    For over 50 years, the Kahnawake Mohawks, of Quebec, Canada occupied a 10 square block area in the North Gowanus section of Brooklyn, which became...

    Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back
  • 1980
    Takeover

    Takeover

    Takeover

    01980HD

    About Aborigines and Australian politics. On 13 March 1978 the Queensland Government announced its intention to take over management of the Aurukun...

    Takeover
  • 2017
    Our People Will Be Healed

    Our People Will Be Healed

    Our People Will Be Healed

    5.72017HD

    Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decolonization looks like in Norway House, one of...

    Our People Will Be Healed