Indigenous Movies

Lost film critical of the poor treatment that Maya peons received on the haciendas.

Examines the 1879 court case of Standing Bear vs. Crook and the struggle for basic Native American rights.

The North of Cauca is the region of Colombia most affected by the internal armed conflict since 1940. There is an orchestra of ancestral music...

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

On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in...

A detective, goes from Spain to the Venezuelan Guajira, hired by the king of Wuayuus, to protect her, Niña de Maracaibo (wife of King, who...

As the name of this short film promises, a filmmaker (Merata Mita), a cook (Anne Thorp) and a singer (Moana Maniapoto) sit down for an interview at...

In a continuation of her first film We Are Not Speaking the Same Language, Danika explains what it feels like to be displaced Indigenous urban.

Shot in Tuxtlas, Veracruz, this documentary exposes the ideological conceptions of witches, healers and patients, with respect to traditional...

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

A social statement on the irreversible and detrimental impact of gas and oil exploration on our planet and in particular the impact that hydraulic...

Resilience is dedicated to those whose lives have been fragmented by intergenerational trauma, but who wish to break the cycle.

A film made by Victress Hitchcock and Ava Hamilton in 1989 on the Wind River Reservation for Wyoming Public Television.

Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...

Anishinaabe author Drew Hayden Taylor investigates how — and why — Indigenous identity, culture and art are being appropriated by those...

A Penobscot Nation author grew up in a haunted house. After his mother's death, he returns home to confront the odd occurrences that took place...