First Nations Movies

Transhuman beings waking up at dusk, reappearing as something else to prepare for the night

Atikamekw elder Cézar Néwashish continues to recount the history of the community of Manawan that first began in The History of...

Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

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...

Told by the country's first women, Canada's Keepers examines the truth about the country's dark colonial past. Truthful and raw, nine First Nations...

Three Kiowa boys attempt to escape a government boarding school in 1891, Oklahoma.

Director Clint Alberta takes us on a hilarious and bittersweet journey into the hearts and minds of some very ordinary, extraordinary young...

For over 50 years, the Kahnawake Mohawks, of Quebec, Canada occupied a 10 square block area in the North Gowanus section of Brooklyn, which became...

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...

The Inuit folktale of an old woman and the orphaned polar bear cub she took in as her own child.

A Seminole Indian captures a falcon on its yearly migration, but it yearns to be free.

Legendary Canadian documentarian Alanis Obomsawin digs into the tangled history of Treaty 9 — the infamous 1905 agreement wherein First Nations...

Throughout the course of the Haida basketball season, leaders of iconic rez ball team the Skidegate Saints compete for two titles - defending their...

On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in...

Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure...

Contrasting ancient myth and modern reality, this short documentary examines the legendary relationship between West Coast Indigenous people and...

Filmed on the island of Haida Gwaii, this documentary depicts the ongoing resistance and resurgence of the Haida people and their culture against the...

For almost a century, the Coast Salish knitters of southern Vancouver Island have produced Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. These distinctive...

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.

Stoney Point Natives assemble at Ipperwash Provincial Park for what began as a peaceful protest.