Native American Movies

  • 2018
    Battle Over Bears Ears

    Battle Over Bears Ears

    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...

    Battle Over Bears Ears
  • 2015
    The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory

    The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory

    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...

    The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory
  • 2019
    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within

    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within

    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...

    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within
  • 2012
    Dakota 38

    Dakota 38

    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...

    Dakota 38
  • 2023
    Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun

    Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun

    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...

    Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun
  • 2018
    Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock

    Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock

    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...

    Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock
  • 2015
    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

    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...

    Taking Alcatraz
  • 2017
    Essence of Healing: The Journey of American Indian Nurses

    Essence of Healing: The Journey of American Indian Nurses

    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...

    Essence of Healing: The Journey of American Indian Nurses
  • 2025
    Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History

    Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History

    Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History

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    The American Southwest holds a dark legacy as the place where nuclear weapons were invented and built. Navajo people have long held this place...

    Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History
  • 2024
    Meet Me at the Creek

    Meet Me at the Creek

    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...

    Meet Me at the Creek
  • 1978
    Fast Break

    Fast Break

    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...

    Fast Break
  • 2013
    I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again

    I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again

    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.

    I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again
  • 2024
    The Return of Nóouhàh-Toka’na

    The Return of Nóouhàh-Toka’na

    The Return of Nóouhàh-Toka’na

    02024HD

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

    The Return of Nóouhàh-Toka’na
  • 2020
    Dark Figures

    Dark Figures

    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...

    Dark Figures
  • 2020
    Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance

    Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance

    Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance

    02020HD

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

    Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance
  • 1947
    Oregon Trail Scouts

    Oregon Trail Scouts

    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.

    Oregon Trail Scouts
  • 2018
    Eagle Boy

    Eagle Boy

    Eagle Boy

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

    Eagle Boy
  • 2006
    Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart

    Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart

    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...

    Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart
  • 2007
    Turquoise Rose

    Turquoise Rose

    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...

    Turquoise Rose
  • 1970
    Helldorado

    Helldorado

    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...

    Helldorado