First Nations Movies

  • 2022
    Bunk #7

    Bunk #7

    Bunk #7

    02022HD

    Documentary about the production of Bunk #7.

    Bunk #7
  • 2025
    Saints And Warriors

    Saints And Warriors

    Saints And Warriors

    02025HD

    Throughout the course of the Haida basketball season, leaders of iconic rez ball team the Skidegate Saints compete for two titles - defending their...

    Saints And Warriors
  • 2007
    Totem: Return and Renewal

    Totem: Return and Renewal

    Totem: Return and Renewal

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    In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal documents the events of the final journey of the...

    Totem: Return and Renewal
  • 1960
    Daniel Boone: The Warrior's Path

    Daniel Boone: The Warrior's Path

    Daniel Boone: The Warrior's Path

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    In North Carolina, Daniel Boone hears amazing tales about Kentucky and decides to move his family there. But first he has to find the Indian path...

    Daniel Boone: The Warrior's Path
  • 1944
    People of the Potlatch

    People of the Potlatch

    People of the Potlatch

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    The Indigenous peoples of northern British Columbia still hunt and fish, using a combination of traditional ways and modern equipment and techniques...

    People of the Potlatch
  • 2020
    (Re)Claiming Indian Status

    (Re)Claiming Indian Status

    (Re)Claiming Indian Status

    02020HD

    This documentary digs into the stories of Indigenous women and families to reclaim their Indian Status through their fight for the elimination of...

    (Re)Claiming Indian Status
  • 2023
    s-yéwyáw: Awaken

    s-yéwyáw: Awaken

    s-yéwyáw: Awaken

    02023HD

    Stories of hope and homecoming intersect as Indigenous multimedia changemakers learn and document the teachings of their Elders. Ecko Aleck of the...

    s-yéwyáw: Awaken
  • 2009
    Savage

    Savage

    Savage

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    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...

    Savage
  • 1984
    Incident at Restigouche

    Incident at Restigouche

    Incident at Restigouche

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    Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation...

    Incident at Restigouche
  • 2015
    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

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    Both a requiem for and an honoring of Canada's First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women, this short film deconstructs the layers of Canadian...

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People
  • 2021
    Le grand solstice

    Le grand solstice

    Le grand solstice

    02021HD

    Le grand solstice
  • 2017
    Our People Will Be Healed

    Our People Will Be Healed

    Our People Will Be Healed

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    Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decolonization looks like in Norway House, one of...

    Our People Will Be Healed
  • 2018
    Indian Rights for Indian Women

    Indian Rights for Indian Women

    Indian Rights for Indian Women

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    Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

    Indian Rights for Indian Women
  • 1969
    Varda, the Peregrine Falcon

    Varda, the Peregrine Falcon

    Varda, the Peregrine Falcon

    01969HD

    A Seminole Indian captures a falcon on its yearly migration, but it yearns to be free.

    Varda, the Peregrine Falcon
  • 2021
    Tantoo Cardinal

    Tantoo Cardinal

    Tantoo Cardinal

    02021HD

    A moving portrait of actress Tantoo Cardinal, travelling through time and across the many roles she’s played, capturing her strength and her...

    Tantoo Cardinal
  • 1973
    Kainai

    Kainai

    Kainai

    01973HD

    On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western...

    Kainai
  • 1979
    Canada Vignettes: Bill Reid

    Canada Vignettes: Bill Reid

    Canada Vignettes: Bill Reid

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    Profile of the Haida artist Bill Reid

    Canada Vignettes: Bill Reid
  • 2009
    A Tent on Mars

    A Tent on Mars

    A Tent on Mars

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    Three decades after the shuttering of the mining town of Schefferville, the Innu people, who moved in after the non-natives abandoned the town, are...

    A Tent on Mars
  • 2010
    The White Archer

    The White Archer

    The White Archer

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    An Inuit youth trains to become a great archer in hopes of avenging the killing of his family – but the First Nations attackers were punishing...

    The White Archer
  • 1964
    Haida Carver

    Haida Carver

    Haida Carver

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    On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film...

    Haida Carver