Indigenous Peoples Movies
- 2024
Ghosts
Ghosts02024HD
Three Kiowa boys attempt to escape a government boarding school in 1891, Oklahoma.
- 2010
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden6.42010HD
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Governmen...
- 2009
The Indian
The Indian6.32009HD
An adopted eight-year-old Peruvian boy wants to look like his typically Dutch father; however, an encounter with a band of Peruvian-Indian street musi...
- 2022
The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence
The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence72022HD
In 1587, more than 100 English colonists settle on Roanoke Island and soon vanish, baffling historians for centuries; now, experts use the latest fore...
- 1998
Okimah
Okimah01998HD
This documentary focuses on the goose hunt, a ritual of central importance to the Cree people of the James Bay coastal areas. Not only a source of foo...
- 2018
Warrior Women
Warrior Women7.52018HD
Through the figure of Lakota activist and community organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk, this inspiring film traces the untold story of countless Native Am...
- 2010
Pudana: Last of the Line
Pudana: Last of the Line62010HD
A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign cultu...
- 2014
Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca02014HD
Three people fly from Chile and Spain to Iquitos, Peru to experience the magic of the sacred plant ayahuasca.
- 1969
You Are on Indian Land
You Are on Indian Land91969HD
The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal purch...
- 2023
Mborairapé
Mborairapé02023HD
RAP is a music path. Jaraguá is Guarani.
- 2015
Genoveva
Genoveva02015HD
A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture, conversati...
- 2001
The Medicine of Forgiveness
The Medicine of Forgiveness02001HD
Benito Arévalo is an onaya: a traditional healer in a Shipibo-Konibo community in Peruvian Amazonia. He explains something of the onaya tradition, and...
- 2010
Habilito: Debt for Life
Habilito: Debt for Life02010HD
Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. It...
- 1982
Standing Alone
Standing Alone01982HD
Pete Standing Alone is a Blood Indian who, as a young man, was more at home in the White man's culture than his own. Confronted with the realization t...
- 2015
Violet
Violet82015HD
An escaped mental patient dies in 1984 at the home of her former doctor. But that was just the beginning.
- 2004
Shellmound
Shellmound02004HD
“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic cultures to a commercial mecca for modern people. W...
- 2014
LaDonna Harris: Indian 101
LaDonna Harris: Indian 10112014HD
A documentary film about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native political and social activism, and is now passing on he...
- 2024
Resident Orca
Resident Orca02024HD
Resident Orca tells the unfolding story of a captive whale’s fight for survival and freedom. After decades of failed attempts to bring her home, an un...
- 2020
The Fall
The Fall02020HD
A father struggles to maintain life with his two young daughters amidst the unknown return of their drug addicted mother.
- 1989
Son of Torum
Son of Torum01989HD
In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the Rus...