Inuit Movies

  • 2015
    Ogress of the Gravelbank

    Ogress of the Gravelbank

    Ogress of the Gravelbank

    02015HD

    Inuit oral history is filled with strange beings and supernatural creatures. One of these feared land spirits is the Ogress of the Gravelbank. This...

    Ogress of the Gravelbank
  • 2016
    Kivalina

    Kivalina

    Kivalina

    5.52016HD

    The rarely seen lives of an Arctic tribe who try to continue to honor their way of life 80 miles above the Arctic Circle on a fragile barrier island...

    Kivalina
  • 1901
    Esquimaux Village

    Esquimaux Village

    Esquimaux Village

    51901HD

    “One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit, scenes are...

    Esquimaux Village
  • 2011
    Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves

    Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves

    Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves

    02011HD

    It begins as an average hunting trip for two young men, but when they find themselves lost, the only safe haven to be found for miles—a...

    Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves
  • 1979
    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    01979HD

    In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, the daily hunt, fishing scenes and children at play...

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe
  • 1988
    Nanook Revisited

    Nanook Revisited

    Nanook Revisited

    01988HD

    Filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North in the early twentieth century, and examine the...

    Nanook Revisited
  • 1944
    Eskimo Summer

    Eskimo Summer

    Eskimo Summer

    01944HD

    Canadian Inuit life in the early 1940's.

    Eskimo Summer
  • 1970
    Inuk Woman City Blues

    Inuk Woman City Blues

    Inuk Woman City Blues

    01970HD

    Follows homeless, addicted and alienated Greenlandic women in Copenhagen, Denmark; includes fragments of Greenlandic culture.

    Inuk Woman City Blues
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    5.51967HD

    Full summer, and the tundra is bare; skin tents are up and it is time to attend to the fishing as the fish move upstream. The men are in the river,...

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir
  • 2016
    The Owl and the Lemming

    The Owl and the Lemming

    The Owl and the Lemming

    02016HD

    The oral history of Inuit is filled with many folktales, legends, and myths. In this traditional story, a young owl catches a lemming to eat. Inuit...

    The Owl and the Lemming
  • 2014
    The Big Lemming

    The Big Lemming

    The Big Lemming

    02014HD

    A stop-motion short tells the story of a male owl, driven by hunger, as he goes in search of food in a late-spring snowstorm - but in his pursuit he...

    The Big Lemming
  • 1944
    Arctic Hunters

    Arctic Hunters

    Arctic Hunters

    01944HD

    The hunting habits of the Inuit in the eastern Arctic.

    Arctic Hunters
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

    61967HD

    The family is on the shore of Pelly Bay in May-June. A seal basks beside its hole under a warming sun. The hunter stalks the seal, kills it and drags...

    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice
  • 1914
    Greenland, 1914

    Greenland, 1914

    Greenland, 1914

    01914HD

    Danish documentary following different locations and situations in Greenland anno 1914. It comes around settlements, hunters, steamboats, umiaks, a...

    Greenland, 1914
  • 1943
    Eskimo Arts and Crafts

    Eskimo Arts and Crafts

    Eskimo Arts and Crafts

    01943HD

    How Inuit peoples perform arts and crafts, on the island of Baffin Island on what is now the territory of Nanavut.

    Eskimo Arts and Crafts
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    51967HD

    Now it is July - summer. The run-off is in full spate and open water shows offshore. Ice cakes melt on the shingle. On the bay are ducks. It is time...

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak