Indigenous Movies

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

In the summer of 2000, federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'gmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of...

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as...

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

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

Released on the 19th of February, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into...

Colombia will never be the same after those 61 days of the Social and Community Minga, which began on October 11, 2008, and culminated in...

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

A two-spirit male cruises a hook-up app as he looks for companionship for the night. A welcomed familiar person invites him over as he contemplates...

They are an Indian people who have suffered for many years. They were forced to live in unimaginable squalor. Houses not much better than cardboard...

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...

Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.

The Manoki people live in northwestern Mato Grosso, Brazil, and one of their main economic activities is selling pequi, a local fruit, on the...

Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian.