Indigenous Movies

  • 2025
    The Gold Panner from Lannavaara

    The Gold Panner from Lannavaara

    The Gold Panner from Lannavaara

    8.252025HD

    A film about the gold panning adventures of Hans Söderström, an indigenous Swede. The story stretches from Scandinavia to Africa, via Asia...

    The Gold Panner from Lannavaara
  • 1987
    Dancing Around the Table, Part One

    Dancing Around the Table, Part One

    Dancing Around the Table, Part One

    01987HD

    Dancing Around the Table: Part One provides a fascinating look at the crucial role Indigenous people played in shaping the Canadian Constitution. The...

    Dancing Around the Table, Part One
  • 2005
    Smudge

    Smudge

    Smudge

    02005HD

    This short documentary follows three Indigenous women as they practice ancestral forms of worship: drumming, singing, and using sweetgrass. These...

    Smudge
  • 2023
    Against the Tide

    Against the Tide

    Against the Tide

    52023HD

    Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different...

    Against the Tide
  • 2019
    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country

    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country

    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country

    82019HD

    When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their...

    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country
  • 1951
    Outcast of the Islands

    Outcast of the Islands

    Outcast of the Islands

    5.81951HD

    After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal...

    Outcast of the Islands
  • 2009
    Kissed by Lightning

    Kissed by Lightning

    Kissed by Lightning

    02009HD

    Mavis Dogblood is a Mohawk painter from Canada haunted by the tragic death of her husband, who was hit by lightning. She paints the stories he used...

    Kissed by Lightning
  • 2004
    Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive

    Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive

    Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive

    02004HD

    In this feature-length documentary, 8 Inuit teens with cameras offer a vibrant and contemporary view of life in Canada's North. They also use their...

    Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive
  • 2007
    That Beautiful Somewhere

    That Beautiful Somewhere

    That Beautiful Somewhere

    3.8752007HD

    A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumoured to have...

    That Beautiful Somewhere
  • 1977
    Nanook Taxi

    Nanook Taxi

    Nanook Taxi

    61977HD

    Ningiuksiak, an Inuk who lives in the settlement of Cape Dorset, is on a hunt with his family. On his way back to Cape Dorset, Ningiuksiak's...

    Nanook Taxi
  • 2002
    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance

    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance

    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance

    02002HD

    Men and women of the !Kung people in Ojokhoe, Namibia perform healing dances by firelight. First we see men perform the giraffe dance, and then...

    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance
  • 2019
    Sweetheart Dancers

    Sweetheart Dancers

    Sweetheart Dancers

    92019HD

    Sean and Adrian, a Two-Spirit couple, are determined to rewrite the rules of Native American culture through their participation in the...

    Sweetheart Dancers
  • 1987
    Foster Child

    Foster Child

    Foster Child

    31987HD

    Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure...

    Foster Child
  • 2017
    Shinaab

    Shinaab

    Shinaab

    02017HD

    An Anishinaabe man is restless and isolated in the city of Minneapolis, haunted by an ominous sense that he doesn’t belong. Shinaab eerily...

    Shinaab
  • 2009
    Vistas: Red Ochre

    Vistas: Red Ochre

    Vistas: Red Ochre

    02009HD

    Combining archival photos with new and found footage, this short film presents a personal, impressionistic rendering of what it's like growing up...

    Vistas: Red Ochre
  • 1991
    Hunters and Bombers

    Hunters and Bombers

    Hunters and Bombers

    01991HD

    The hunters are the Innu people and the bombers are the air forces of several NATO countries, which conduct low-level flights over the Innu's hunting...

    Hunters and Bombers
  • 2023
    Derrière chaque image, une histoire

    Derrière chaque image, une histoire

    Derrière chaque image, une histoire

    02023HD

    Derrière chaque image, une histoire
  • 2017
    500 Years

    500 Years

    500 Years

    5.92017HD

    From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, the sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent...

    500 Years
  • 2023
    Soleil de nuit

    Soleil de nuit

    Soleil de nuit

    72023HD

    During a training exercise in an abandoned open-pit mine, a crew of Canadian astronauts are interrupted by an Atikamekw elder, who asks them to...

    Soleil de nuit
  • 1982
    The Last Mooseskin Boat

    The Last Mooseskin Boat

    The Last Mooseskin Boat

    01982HD

    This short documentary follows Gabe Etchinelle as builds a mooseskin boat as a tribute to an earlier way of life, where the Shotah Dene people would...

    The Last Mooseskin Boat