Indigenous Movies

In the Plains Cree language, “pîtoteyihtam” means “one who thinks differently”. Among various indigenous peoples,...

The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.

A love story set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the opioid epidemic, Echo and Wild are two urban Indigenous land defenders. On the...

Ginger Côté uses the words of Heather Archibald, an activist who grew up in foster care and who died, to honor the memory of the young...

“Te Pito o Te Henua” (The Navel of the World) tells the story of the community behind Rapa Nui’s largest and most colorful annual...

Standsinwater Sutherland is 2Spirit Cree living in Northern Ontario. Holding her eagle feather, she sits and tells her story: her quest to identity,...

The documentary recreates the facts in the life of the Yukpa Chief, Sabino Romero, an indigenous fighter killed on March 3, 2013, in the Chaktapa...

Conservation groups, First Nations, and scientists come together in this timely short film, as a decades-long battle to protect endangered old-growth...

"The Ninth Island" tells the story of Hawaii’s indigenous population and its struggles to stay connected to its ancestral home.

Two Lawalapiti young men from Alto Xingu learn to build a canoe from the bark of the jatobá tree, a quick and simple technique that leaves the...

Atzimba is going to marry Jose. Her father sends his future son-in-law to take care of various duties. But the young man's cleverness doesn't do a...

At Western Australia’s first Indigenous-run police station, two officers learn language and culture to help them police one of the most remote...

Filmmaker Mary Galloway's feature documentary looks at the origins and continued impact of the famed Cowichan sweater.

Some people think John Muir was a hero. Others: not so much. The Adventure Brothers hike the famous John Muir Trail (a.k.a. Nüümü...