Indigenous Peoples Movies
- 1995
My Name Is Kahentiiosta
My Name Is Kahentiiosta81995HD
This documentary short by Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman arrested after the Oka Crisis' 78-day...
- 1998
La isla del Infierno
La isla del Infierno6.51998HD
A young slave whishes returning to his homeland, the Canary Islands, after twenty years of captivity in Spain. For that reason he will travel as...
- 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.
- 2015
Tanna
Tanna6.6582015HD
In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal...
- 1970
This Was the Time
This Was the Time01970HD
When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), held a potlatch, it seemed as if the past grandeur of...
- 2025
The Good Canadian
The Good Canadian12025HD
The world knows the image of the good Canadian. But what if there was a dark secret behind a national identity? THE GOOD CANADIAN exposes the truth...
- 1975
Man Who Chooses the Bush
Man Who Chooses the Bush01975HD
This short documentary follows Frank Ladouceur, a man who lives alone for months at a time, trapping muskrat in the vast, desolate wilderness of...
- 1995
Our Indians
Our Indians5.51995HD
Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how...
- 1970
Life on Victor Street
Life on Victor Street01970HD
This short documentary depicts an Aboriginal Winnipeg teen’s struggle to stay in school and away from local gangs. Filmed over 2 years, the...
- 1969
These Are My People...
These Are My People...01969HD
This documentary short is the first film made by an all-Aboriginal film crew, training under the NFB's Challenge for Change Program. It was shot at...
- 1975
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance01975HD
Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the...
- 1963
Attiuk
Attiuk01963HD
The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are seen but not heard in this richly detailed...
- 2024
Ainu Puri
Ainu Puri02024HD
Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teaches his son Motoki about their heritage. But how...
- 1989
Powwow Highway
Powwow Highway6.61989HD
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa...
- 2002
The Call of Fayu Ujmu
The Call of Fayu Ujmu02002HD
A 13-year-old Indian boy is found unconscious after being attacked in the jungle by the evil spirit Fayu Ujmu. A shaman attempts to ritually tame the...
- 2004
Through These Eyes
Through These Eyes02004HD
A 1970s American elementary school program encouraging students to figure out for themselves the universal building blocks of human community —...
- 2022
Wabano: The Light of the Day
Wabano: The Light of the Day02022HD
Nestled at the heart of Canada’s national capital, the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health has been a haven for generations of Indigenous...
- 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...
- 2023
Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher
Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher02023HD
Part oral history and part visual poem, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is the story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational...
- 1980
Nose and Tina
Nose and Tina01980HD
The unusual story of Nose and Tina, 2 people in love. He is employed as a brakeman, she as a sex worker.