Indigenous Community Movies
- 1970
Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock
Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock01970HD
Nominated for an Emmy® Award in 2021 for best non fiction special. Winner of 35 grand jury awards. Filmed in 2016 at Standing Rock, North...
- 2017
Alifu, the Prince/ss
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Alifu, a 25 year-old Paiwan boy, works as a hair-dresser in Taipei and struggles between his dream of getting a sex change operation and following...
- 2019
Now Is the Time
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When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the first new totem pole on British Columbia’s...
- 2025
Red Girl Rising
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Joyce Jonathan Crone—Mohawk matriarch, retired teacher, activist, humanitarian—reaches forward into her community of Huntsville, Ontario,...
- 2014
Bontok, Rapeless
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Two Filipina victims of sexual abuse search the truth behind the finding of a renowned anthropologist: that merely a few generations ago, the Bontok...
- 2013
Tokyo Ainu
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TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its surrounding areas), who are and actively in...
- 1996
Mumbaki
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Joseph is a young doctor who returned to his hometown in the Mountain Province to bury his father, an Ifugao chieftain, who was killed during a...
- 1963
Attiuk
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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...
- 2020
The Rebellion of Memory
The Rebellion of Memory02020HD
It became world news in October 2019 when economic reforms in Ecuador led to gas prices suddenly shooting up by 123 percent. People from urban and...
- 1979
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival
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Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.
- 2023
Here Where It All Ends
Here Where It All Ends02023HD
"Here Where It All Ends" is an experimental, poetic short film that moves between documentary and fiction to address an endangered culture, that of...
- 2023
Castanho
Castanho02023HD
Living in the countryside of the Amazon in Brazil, Argentinian María divides herself between two lives: in the community, where she lives with...
- 2012
Universal VIP
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Still working through the grief of losing her only child, Thelma, a young Blackfeet woman in Browning, MT, is taken advantage of by friends who use...
- 2016
The Price of the Prize
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First Nations fight to end grizzly bear trophy hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. The Heiltsuk, Kitasoo Xai'xais and Gitga'at...
- 2024
Mamus
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A stunning and intimate portrait of the Arhuaco indigenous community in Colombia. In 1990, in a celebrated BBC documentary, the Arhuaco made contact...
- 2024
Povo da Floresta
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- 2019
Sujud
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A group of people bows down as a ritual for religious ceremonies. This community shares a belief named Sapta Drama, one of the native religions in...
- 2023
Ozogoche
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Cuviví is the Ecuadorean indigenous name for the upland sandpiper, a wading bird that has special significance for the communities living...
- 2020
Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia
Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia02020HD
Andean communities fight to protect their water from contamination by mining companies.
- 2013
I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again
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A documentary that tells the story of five American Indian artists, the Urban Indian 5 (UI5), and their unique partnership.