Native American Movies

  • 1992
    Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence

    Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence

    Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence

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    Focuses on 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, as she discusses the lack of human rights for the indigenous people of Guatemala and her...

    Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence
  • 2016
    Canyon Song

    Canyon Song

    Canyon Song

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    This short film follows Tonisha, Toneil and their family as they reclaim their Navajo history and reconnect with ancestors within the canyon walls.

    Canyon Song
  • 2010
    The Dead Can't Dance

    The Dead Can't Dance

    The Dead Can't Dance

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    Turns out, Native American ancestry causes immunity to the zombie virus sweeping the nation.

    The Dead Can't Dance
  • 2021
    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

    02021HD

    For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...

    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
  • 1917
    With the Stony Indians

    With the Stony Indians

    With the Stony Indians

    01917HD

    Released on the 19th of February, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

    With the Stony Indians
  • 2012
    Great Falls

    Great Falls

    Great Falls

    02012HD

    Professional, native and antiquarian researchers combine to investigate the archaeological history and modern legacy of Eastern Native civilization...

    Great Falls
  • 1992
    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    01992HD

    This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.

    Surviving Columbus
  • 1997
    In Whose Honor?

    In Whose Honor?

    In Whose Honor?

    01997HD

    Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves — Indian mascots and nicknames have historically been first draft picks in American...

    In Whose Honor?
  • 2019
    The Warrior Tradition

    The Warrior Tradition

    The Warrior Tradition

    02019HD

    The astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why do they do it? Why would...

    The Warrior Tradition
  • 1995
    Lighting the 7th Fire

    Lighting the 7th Fire

    Lighting the 7th Fire

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    A Chippewa prophecy foretells a time called the 7th Fire when lost traditions will be recovered. Native American filmmaker Sandra Sunrising Osawa...

    Lighting the 7th Fire
  • 2013
    Pine Ridge

    Pine Ridge

    Pine Ridge

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    19 year old Bert sits in the shade of a tree in Yo Park. Cassandra Warrior feeds her daughter Diamond Rose. Daniel Runs Close sweats under the sun at...

    Pine Ridge
  • 2019
    Finndians

    Finndians

    Finndians

    02019HD

    A short documentary about Americans with Native American and Finnish heritage.

    Finndians
  • 2007
    Standing Silent Nation

    Standing Silent Nation

    Standing Silent Nation

    02007HD

    When the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family...

    Standing Silent Nation
  • 1970
    She Cried That Day

    She Cried That Day

    She Cried That Day

    01970HD

    The story of a sister's love and the spirit, strength, and will of Indigenous Women refusing to let their loved ones remain invisible in the eyes of...

    She Cried That Day
  • 1970
    Newen Mapuche, la fuerza de la gente de la tierra

    Newen Mapuche, la fuerza de la gente de la tierra

    Newen Mapuche, la fuerza de la gente de la tierra

    01970HD

    Newen Mapuche, la fuerza de la gente de la tierra
  • 1921
    Across the Divide

    Across the Divide

    Across the Divide

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    Left in the care of his half-breed brother, Buck, by his dying mother, Wallace Layson has no knowledge of his family history. His father, knowing...

    Across the Divide
  • 2022
    Aruka

    Aruka

    Aruka

    02022HD

    During a winter storm, a man staggers home after a long night of drinking. Some time later, there is a ruckus that echoes through-out the house. The...

    Aruka
  • 2014
    Where God Likes to Be

    Where God Likes to Be

    Where God Likes to Be

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    Where God Likes to Be focuses on three young protagonists full of hope and promise - Andi Running Wolf, Edward Tailfeathers, and Douglas Fitzgerald -...

    Where God Likes to Be
  • 1993
    Grandfather Sky

    Grandfather Sky

    Grandfather Sky

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    A young Native American man on his way to visit his uncle learns about his Navajo heritage by attending tribal gatherings, traditional ceremonies and...

    Grandfather Sky
  • 2006
    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You

    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You

    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You

    02006HD

    The collaboration between the Tanacross and Northway, Alaska communities and trained linguistic specialists from the Alaska Native Language Center to...

    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You