Inuit Movies

  • 2011
    Throat Song

    Throat Song

    Throat Song

    82011HD

    In a small town in the Canadian Arctic, Ippik, a young Inuit woman, suffers in an abusive relationship. She starts to heal when she connects with...

    Throat Song
  • 1980
    Death in the Spring

    Death in the Spring

    Death in the Spring

    01980HD

    In this animated short the artist tells the story of an Inuit hunter who clubs a seal pup on the ice and then later dies himself. The film's ethereal...

    Death in the Spring
  • 1932
    Fishing in Greenland

    Fishing in Greenland

    Fishing in Greenland

    01932HD

    Danish documentary that follows fishermen in Greenland, from the time when fishing got industrialized. The filmcrew also captures ships fighting the...

    Fishing in Greenland
  • 2008
    The Necessities of Life

    The Necessities of Life

    The Necessities of Life

    7.42008HD

    In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted,...

    The Necessities of Life
  • 1934
    Man of Two Worlds

    Man of Two Worlds

    Man of Two Worlds

    61934HD

    A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.

    Man of Two Worlds
  • 1986
    Somewhere in the Arctic...

    Somewhere in the Arctic...

    Somewhere in the Arctic...

    5.61986HD

    A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

    Somewhere in the Arctic...
  • 2025
    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    02025HD

    Through interviews with Inuit across Nunavut, and documentation of a three-year community hearing process during the COVID pandemic, award-winning...

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit
  • 1970
    Moi, Alupa Tulugak

    Moi, Alupa Tulugak

    Moi, Alupa Tulugak

    01970HD

    Moi, Alupa Tulugak
  • 2025
    The Good Canadian

    The Good Canadian

    The Good Canadian

    5.52025HD

    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...

    The Good Canadian
  • 2017
    Shaman

    Shaman

    Shaman

    62017HD

    This animated short tells the story of a ferocious polar bear turned to stone by an Inuk shaman. The tale is based on emerging filmmaker Echo...

    Shaman
  • 1964
    The Annanacks

    The Annanacks

    The Annanacks

    01964HD

    This short documentary depicts the formation in 1959 of the first successful co-operative in an Inuit community in Northern Québec. The film...

    The Annanacks
  • 1941
    Mutiny in the Arctic

    Mutiny in the Arctic

    Mutiny in the Arctic

    01941HD

    A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off...

    Mutiny in the Arctic
  • 2015
    Nowhere Land

    Nowhere Land

    Nowhere Land

    02015HD

    Documentary about filmmaker Bonnie Ammaaq's memories of life on Baffin Island, where her family moved for eleven years during her childhood from the...

    Nowhere Land
  • 1973
    Labrador North

    Labrador North

    Labrador North

    01973HD

    This short documentary looks at the government relocation of the Labrador Inuit and the effects on their culture and social structures.

    Labrador North
  • 2018
    Those Who Come, Will Hear

    Those Who Come, Will Hear

    Those Who Come, Will Hear

    92018HD

    The documentary proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec – all threatened with...

    Those Who Come, Will Hear
  • 2019
    The Last Igloo

    The Last Igloo

    The Last Igloo

    7.72019HD

    Documentary that follows a lone Inuit as he hunts, fishes and constructs an igloo, a way of life threatened by climate change.

    The Last Igloo
  • 1971
    People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer

    People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer

    People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer

    01971HD

    The first of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo...

    People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer
  • 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
  • 2005
    Urban Inuk

    Urban Inuk

    Urban Inuk

    02005HD

    Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk) follows the lives of three Inuit in Montreal over the course of one hot and humid summer.Only two generations ago Inuit...

    Urban Inuk
  • 1934
    The Wedding of Palo

    The Wedding of Palo

    The Wedding of Palo

    51934HD

    The movie tells of the contest between two rivals for the love of an Inuk woman. The forces of nature will decide the winner.

    The Wedding of Palo