Indigenous Peoples Movies

  • 2022
    This Is Not a Ceremony

    This Is Not a Ceremony

    This Is Not a Ceremony

    02022HD

    This cinematic VR experience offers insights into the struggles and conflicts of growing up an Indigenous man.

    This Is Not a Ceremony
  • 2021
    Evan's Drum

    Evan's Drum

    Evan's Drum

    02021HD

    For generations, the sound of traditional Inuit drum dancing fell silent in Labrador due to colonization. In the early 21st century, the beat of the...

    Evan's Drum
  • 2023
    Coming Home

    Coming Home

    Coming Home

    8.52023HD

    This documentary reveals the impacts of the Sixties Scoop, a period in which a series of Canadian policies enabled child welfare authorities to take,...

    Coming Home
  • 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
  • 2013
    Tokyo Ainu

    Tokyo Ainu

    Tokyo Ainu

    02013HD

    TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its surrounding areas), who are and actively in...

    Tokyo Ainu
  • 2024
    Las raíces de Efraín

    Las raíces de Efraín

    Las raíces de Efraín

    02024HD

    Inspired by a true discovery that occurred in 1991 (Alboyanco, Angol), the short film tells the story of a boy who, while playing hide-and-seek with...

    Las raíces de Efraín
  • 2020
    Deep Roots

    Deep Roots

    Deep Roots

    02020HD

    Lonnie Kauk’s personal journey to honor his indigenous Yosemite roots, and to connect with his legendary father by repeating his iconic climbs.

    Deep Roots
  • 1955
    No Longer Vanishing

    No Longer Vanishing

    No Longer Vanishing

    101955HD

    No Longer Vanishing
  • 1998
    Okimah

    Okimah

    Okimah

    01998HD

    This documentary focuses on the goose hunt, a ritual of central importance to the Cree people of the James Bay coastal areas. Not only a source of...

    Okimah
  • 2017
    In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School

    In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School

    In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School

    02017HD

    A poignant all-Indigenous English and Cree-English collaborative documentary that breaks long-held silences imposed upon indigenous children who were...

    In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School
  • 2026
    Formline

    Formline

    Formline

    02026HD

    Formline is the defining visual language of traditional Northwest Coast First Nations art; continuous, curvilinear shapes that swell, diminish, and...

    Formline
  • 2026
    Si'aniëtsio Siekowa'i - Amazonía Siempre Conectada

    Si'aniëtsio Siekowa'i - Amazonía Siempre Conectada

    Si'aniëtsio Siekowa'i - Amazonía Siempre Conectada

    72026HD

    The Siekopaai Nation embarks on a quest across the borders that divide its ancestral territory to connect its communities. With the help of CEFO...

    Si'aniëtsio Siekowa'i - Amazonía Siempre Conectada
  • 2023
    Mborairapé

    Mborairapé

    Mborairapé

    02023HD

    RAP is a music path. Jaraguá is Guarani.

    Mborairapé
  • 2017
    Alsina's Trench

    Alsina's Trench

    Alsina's Trench

    82017HD

    Documentary film about the "zanja de Alsina", a long trench dug in the Argentinian Pampa in 1876 as way to separate the "civilized" from the...

    Alsina's Trench
  • 2010
    Habilito: Debt for Life

    Habilito: Debt for Life

    Habilito: Debt for Life

    02010HD

    Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon....

    Habilito: Debt for Life
  • 2025
    Espejo de Agua

    Espejo de Agua

    Espejo de Agua

    02025HD

    Espejo de Agua is a non-fiction short film set in Venezuela 's Sinamaica Lagoon, Zulia, where the Añú people are silently displaced due...

    Espejo de Agua
  • 2024
    Povo da Floresta

    Povo da Floresta

    Povo da Floresta

    82024HD

    Povo da Floresta
  • 1975
    Bella Bella

    Bella Bella

    Bella Bella

    81975HD

    This documentary short is an introduction to the Bella Bella (Heiltsuk) of Campbell Island, 500 km North of Vancouver on the Pacific Coast. Since the...

    Bella Bella
  • 2019
    Saving Warru

    Saving Warru

    Saving Warru

    02019HD

    Warru, or black-footed rock-wallaby, is one of South Australia's most endangered mammals. In 2007, when numbers dropped below 200 in the APY Lands in...

    Saving Warru
  • 2019
    Spears from All Sides

    Spears from All Sides

    Spears from All Sides

    02019HD

    Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian...

    Spears from All Sides