First Nations Movies
- 2010
Waseteg
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The story of a young Mi'kmaq girl whose name means "the light from the dawn."
- 1970
Tantoo Cardinal
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A moving portrait of actress Tantoo Cardinal, travelling through time and across the many roles she’s played, capturing her strength and her...
- 2018
Carriberrie
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Narrated by award-winning actor and dancer David Gulpilil, Carriberrie guides audiences across a stunning array of iconic Australian locations and...
- 2025
Red Girl Rising
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Joyce Jonathan Crone—Mohawk matriarch, retired teacher, activist, humanitarian—reaches forward into her community of Huntsville, Ontario,...
- 2009
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...
- 1946
Winning the West
Winning the West01946HD
The big bad cats are the villains/Indians, and the little mice are the settlers going west in their little covered wagons, and the Indians are on a...
- 1997
David with F.A.S
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David Vandenbrink seems like a healthy 21-year-old, bright and articulate young man. There is little to suggest that while in his mother's womb, he...
- 2015
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...
- 2020
K'i Tah Amongst the Birch
K'i Tah Amongst the Birch02020HD
Filmmaker/activist Melaw Nakehk’o has spent the pandemic with her family at a remote land camp in the Northwest Territories, “getting...
- 2010
Choke
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When Jimmy leaves his reservation for the lures of city life, he finds himself confronted with a future he could never have imagined.
- 1970
Watchers of the Land
Watchers of the Land01970HD
What does it mean to connect with your ancestral land? In the Northwest Territories of Canada, young people from the Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation...
- 2023
s-yéwyáw: Awaken
s-yéwyáw: Awaken02023HD
Stories of hope and homecoming intersect as Indigenous multimedia changemakers learn and document the teachings of their Elders. Ecko Aleck of the...
- 1990
The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son
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Animated Canadian film.
- 2009
How People Got Fire
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This introspective short animation takes place In the village of Carcross, in the Tagish First Nation. Neighbourhood pillar Grandma Kay tell the...
- 2016
KONELĪNE: our land beautiful
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Set deep in the traditional territory of Tahltan First Nation, Northern British Columbia’s Red Chris gold and copper mine is the backdrop to a...
- 2020
My Pride
My Pride02020HD
Spontaneous portrait of an endearing and cheerful teenager living in balance between traditionalism and modernity. She presents her regalia to us and...
- 2016
Restoration
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Restoration is a found-footage piece honouring Beau Dick's Copper Breaking ceremony on the steps of the BC Legislature during Idle No More in 2013.
- 1979
Bill Reid
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Follows Haida artist Bill Reid, from British Columbia. A jeweller and wood carver, he works on a traditional Haida totem pole. We watch the gradual...
- 2022
Sur les traces d'Anachnid
Sur les traces d'Anachnid02022HD
- 2021
R.E.M Burn
R.E.M Burn02021HD
R.E.M Burn is a visual poem addressing thematic elements of life and death cycles and traditional knowledge principles. In our initial consideration...