Native American Movies
- 2018

Battle Over Bears Ears
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At its heart, it’s a battle for homeland and sovereignty. Bears Ears, a remote section of land lined with red cliffs and filled with juniper...
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- 2015

The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory
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The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory explores how the British misjudged their opponent and miscalculated the complexities of the battle...
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- 2019

Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within
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For four years, the Jicarilla Apache Nation's Johnson O'Malley program, led by Lynn Roanhorse, and Holt Hamilton Films have joined forces to...
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- 2012

Dakota 38
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In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the great...
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- 2023

Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun
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Raised on horseback in Blackfoot Territory and coached by her father, Logan Red Crow fights to become the first woman to ride the Indian Relay at the...
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- 2018

Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock
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Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of activists, environmentalists, and militarized police...
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- 2015

Taking Alcatraz
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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...
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- 2017

Essence of Healing: The Journey of American Indian Nurses
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Essence of Healing is a documentary exploring the life journeys of 14 American Indian nurses - their experiences growing up, their experiences in...
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- 2025

Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History
Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History02025HD
The American Southwest holds a dark legacy as the place where nuclear weapons were invented and built. Navajo people have long held this place...
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- 2024

Meet Me at the Creek
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Waters’ LIFT project, ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek), is the fourth of a quartet of films, and...
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- 1978

Fast Break
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Evoking a cinema verite feel not found in most sports documentaries, Fast Break examines the 1977 Portland Trailblazers basketball team in a...
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- 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.
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- 2024

The Return of Nóouhàh-Toka’na
The Return of Nóouhàh-Toka’na02024HD
Nóouhàh-Toka’na, known as swift fox in English, once roamed the North American Great Plains from Canada to Texas. Like bison,...
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- 2020

Dark Figures
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Five friends accidentally awaken an ancient evil while hiking in Arizona. They must fight to survive both a demonic spirit and the small tribe who...
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- 2020

Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance
Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance02020HD
Exploration of how the reality and resistance of Native Americans inspires the work of Pawnee artist Bunky Echo-Hawk, igniting discussions about...
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- 1947

Oregon Trail Scouts
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Red Ryder battles an unscrupulous fur thief named Hunter for the right to trap beaver and otter on the land of Chief Running Fox.
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- 2018

Eagle Boy
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A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.
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- 2006

Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart
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Award-winning documentary, Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart, makes extensive use of Sitting Bull’s own words, giving the viewer an intimate...
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- 2007

Turquoise Rose
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Raised in the suburbs of Phoenix, a Navajo college student must choose between a vacation in Rome or moving to the reservation to care for her ailing...
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- 1970

Helldorado
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Queho, a Native American serial killer with a checkered past, takes out the people of a struggling mining town in the stark deserts of Nevada one by...
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