Indigenous Movies

  • 2025
    Soul of the Desert

    Soul of the Desert

    Soul of the Desert

    52025HD

    A documentary on the road that tracks the journey by Georgina, an elderly transgender woman forced to cross the sandy peninsula Guajira, on foot, to...

    Soul of the Desert
  • 1973
    Starblanket

    Starblanket

    Starblanket

    01973HD

    At twenty-six, Noel Starblanket was one of the youngest Indigenous chiefs in North America--twice elected chief of the Starblanket Reserve, and also...

    Starblanket
  • 2020
    Mother River

    Mother River

    Mother River

    02020HD

    In a remote Peruvian city, lives Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent who sells candies more than 20 years ago, with the rain will...

    Mother River
  • 2024
    Tea Creek

    Tea Creek

    Tea Creek

    02024HD

    Against the backdrop of colonization and the climate crisis, Jacob Beaton, a passionate Indigenous entrepreneur, has embarked on a remarkable...

    Tea Creek
  • 2018
    Gurrumul

    Gurrumul

    Gurrumul

    72018HD

    Blind from birth, Dr G Yunupingu found his identity through song and the haunting voice that has already become legend. His debut album introduced...

    Gurrumul
  • 2007
    Woodland Spirits

    Woodland Spirits

    Woodland Spirits

    02007HD

    In this documentary short, two men paddle a canoe across a remote part of northern Lake Superior. Each stroke brings them closer to the culmination...

    Woodland Spirits
  • 2017
    First Daughter and the Black Snake

    First Daughter and the Black Snake

    First Daughter and the Black Snake

    52017HD

    The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to the earth. For Winona LaDuke, the “black...

    First Daughter and the Black Snake
  • 2022
    Still We Rise

    Still We Rise

    Still We Rise

    02022HD

    50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the world. Taking a fresh lens this is a bold dive into...

    Still We Rise
  • 1983
    The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?

    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...

    The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
  • 1993
    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    7.41993HD

    In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a...

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance
  • 2021
    L'Inhumain

    L'Inhumain

    L'Inhumain

    3.22021HD

    Mathieu is a brilliant neurosurgeon whose perfect life is falling apart. Impending divorce, job loss, substance abuse, and a mid-life crisis are all...

    L'Inhumain
  • 2021
    Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

    Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

    Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

    92021HD

    Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and...

    Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
  • 2016
    Xapiri

    Xapiri

    Xapiri

    02016HD

    Xapiri is a Yanomami term that characterizes the shamans, male spirits (xapiri thëpë) and also auxiliary spirits (xapiri pë). Xapiri...

    Xapiri
  • 2021
    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again

    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again

    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again

    82021HD

    After marrying a settler, Mary Two-Axe Earley lost her legal status as a First Nations woman. Dedicating her life to activism, she campaigned to have...

    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again
  • 2019
    Young People Ask

    Young People Ask

    Young People Ask

    02019HD

    Two young men spend an ordinary weekend together as Jehovah's Witnesses in the historic industry town of Trail, British Columbia. They eat junk food,...

    Young People Ask
  • 2011
    The Chocolate Farmer

    The Chocolate Farmer

    The Chocolate Farmer

    72011HD

    For ancient Mayans, cocoa was as good as gold. For subsistence farmer Eladio Pop, his cocoa crops are the only riches he has to support his wife and...

    The Chocolate Farmer
  • 1970
    Qimmik

    Qimmik

    Qimmik

    01970HD

    Qimmik
  • 2011
    That Which Once Was

    That Which Once Was

    That Which Once Was

    02011HD

    In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted...

    That Which Once Was
  • 2019
    Freedom Road: Women / Ikwewag

    Freedom Road: Women / Ikwewag

    Freedom Road: Women / Ikwewag

    02019HD

    Shoal Lake 40 women talk about their struggles, and those of their parents and grandparents, in trying to raise their families in a hazardous state...

    Freedom Road: Women / Ikwewag
  • 2003
    Islet

    Islet

    Islet

    02003HD

    For an Inuit fisherman, technology means absurdity. Floating out on a block of ice, he doesn't have any other choice to grab onto some flying fish to...

    Islet