Movies: First nations

  • 2019
    Blood Quantum

    Blood Quantum (2019)

    Blood Quantum

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    The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague....

    Blood Quantum
  • 1991
    Clearcut

    Clearcut (1991)

    Clearcut

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    A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction....

    Clearcut
  • 2018
    Indian Horse

    Indian Horse (2018)

    Indian Horse

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    Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism....

    Indian Horse
  • 2022
    Wildhood

    Wildhood (2022)

    Wildhood

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    Link and his brother flee their abusive father and embark on a journey where Link discovers his sexuality and rediscovers his Mi’kmaw heritage....

    Wildhood
  • 2023
    Bones of Crows

    Bones of Crows (2023)

    Bones of Crows

    7.12023HD

    Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate ...

    Bones of Crows
  • 2004
    Two Worlds Colliding

    Two Worlds Colliding (2004)

    Two Worlds Colliding

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    This documentary chronicles the story of Darrell Night, an Indigenous man who was dumped by two police officers in a barren field on the outskirts of Saskatoon in January 2000, during -20° C temperatures. He survived, but he was stunned to hear that ...

    Two Worlds Colliding
  • 1995
    Dance Me Outside

    Dance Me Outside (1995)

    Dance Me Outside

    6.51995HD

    Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of ...

    Dance Me Outside
  • 2010
    A Good Day to Die

    A Good Day to Die (2010)

    A Good Day to Die

    6.52010HD

    Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement....

    A Good Day to Die
  • 2019
    There's Something in the Water

    There's Something in the Water (2019)

    There's Something in the Water

    7.12019HD

    Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his home province, in this urgent documentary on Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land, and their futu...

    There's Something in the Water
  • 2015
    Redfern Now: Promise Me

    Redfern Now: Promise Me (2015)

    Redfern Now: Promise Me

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    Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the different ways they deal with the crime....

    Redfern Now: Promise Me
  • 2023
    We Are Still Here

    We Are Still Here (2023)

    We Are Still Here

    4.32023HD

    In a sweeping tale that spans 1000 years and multiple generations – from the distant past to the 19th century, the present day and a strange, dystopian future – this landmark collection traces the collective histories of Indigenous peoples across Aus...

    We Are Still Here
  • 1992
    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992)

    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

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    Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, an...

    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
  • 1991
    Women in the Shadows

    Women in the Shadows (1991)

    Women in the Shadows

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    Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces the filmmaker's quest for her Native foremothers in spite of the reluctance to speak about Native roots on the part of her relatives. The film articul...

    Women in the Shadows
  • 2017
    Home for the Holidays

    Home for the Holidays (2017)

    Home for the Holidays

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    "Home for the Holidays" is the third stand-alone two hour Christmas special of the "Murdoch Mysteries" that first aired on December 18, 2017 on CBC, followed by a second airing on December 25, 2017 in Canada. Murdoch and Ogden travel to Victoria, B....

    Home for the Holidays
  • 2007
    Totem: Return and Renewal

    Totem: Return and Renewal (2007)

    Totem: Return and Renewal

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    In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal documents the events of the final journey of the G'psgolox Pole as it returns home to Kitamaat and the Haisla people, from where it went missing in 19...

    Totem: Return and Renewal
  • 2008
    Our Spirits Don't Speak English

    Our Spirits Don't Speak English (2008)

    Our Spirits Don't Speak English

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    Told from the Native American perspective, this documentary will uncover the dark history of the U.S. government and will give a voice to the countless Indian children forced through the system....

    Our Spirits Don't Speak English
  • 1993
    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance (1993)

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    7.41993HD

    In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness....

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance
  • 1969
    You Are on Indian Land

    You Are on Indian Land (1969)

    You Are on Indian Land

    8.51969HD

    The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal purchases - a right established by the Jay Treaty of 1794 - Kanien'kéhaka protesters blocked the internat...

    You Are on Indian Land
  • 1974
    Shokee, the Everglades Panther

    Shokee, the Everglades Panther (1974)

    Shokee, the Everglades Panther

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    A Seminole boy spending the summer alone in the Everglades as a rite of passage helps a lost panther cub survive, but the village does not welcome him when he follows the boy home. The boy has to steal an airboat to take the panther deep into the swa...

    Shokee, the Everglades Panther
  • 2019
    Haida Modern

    Haida Modern (2019)

    Haida Modern

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    In the 50 years since he carved his first totem pole, Robert Davidson has come to be regarded as one of the world’s foremost modern artists. Charles Wilkinson (Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World) brings his trademark inquisitiveness and craftsmans...

    Haida Modern