Movies: Native american

Three Lenape tribes send their youth to the Delaware Water Gap region to reconnect with their ancestral homelands....

Documentary examines the different paths taken by brothers Edward & Asahel Curtis in their photographs of Northwest Indians and Yukon explorers, as well as their influence on Seattle & Washington state...

Lost short film about the death of the last Aztec Emperor....

In a remote northern woodland community, a young First Nations mother and her 7-year-old son search for her boyfriend in the wake of his mysterious disappearance....

A portrait of the Hopi tribe who live in northeastern Arizona....

Native American business partners, Marty and Jess, embark on a journey to the American Southwest to shoot a film. The fun lasts until Jess vanishes without a trace leaving a worried Marty to deal with her past, false allegations and racism while tryi...

The documentary adresses the meaning of music and the musical diversity present in Umbanda (a Brazilian religion with afroindigenous roots). With interviews with four umbandistas from Fortaleza - Ceará, Crossroads of the Sound pays reverence to the e...

INAATE/SE/ re-imagines an ancient Ojibway story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans. A kaleidoscopic experience blending documentary, narrative, and experimental forms, INAATE/SE/ transcends linear...

Life is a question of luck....

Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of activists, environmentalists, and militarized police descend on the Dakota Access Pipeline, in a standoff between Big Oil and a new generation of native warr...

Where God Likes to Be focuses on three young protagonists full of hope and promise - Andi Running Wolf, Edward Tailfeathers, and Douglas Fitzgerald - following them over the course of a summer that marks a turning point in all of their lives. Each gr...

Examines the 1879 court case of Standing Bear vs. Crook and the struggle for basic Native American rights....

At the farthest edge of the Navajo Nation, the purpose and future of the most remote high school in the continental United States is in question while three Indigenous youth grapple with ambitious dreams, family responsibilities, and the isolated nat...

A short film highlighting the epidemic of missing indigenous men and women who have gone missing in Bighorn County, Montana. It features several victims' stories and interviews with their families and indigenous activists who are pushing for their c...

We get up close and personal with Steven Paul Judd, the dynamic and bold 21st century renaissance man. This self-taught artist’s love for pop culture and Native American art has given him a massive following. This insightful portrait shows how Judd...

This documentary reveals the untold history of America's Indian Adoption Era, a time when Native children were stolen from their families and forced to assimilate, the process itself designed to wipe out generations of culture....

Explores the only deadly clash between Native Americans and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, framed by the Blackfeet history and culture, the aftermath of the expedition’s arrival, and the challenges and triumphs of the Blackfeet people today....

"Sisters Rising" is the story of six Native American women fighting to restore personal and tribal sovereignty in the face of ongoing colonial violence against indigenous women in the United States. Dawn was in the Army, now she’s a tribal cop in the...

Exploration of how the reality and resistance of Native Americans inspires the work of Pawnee artist Bunky Echo-Hawk, igniting discussions about environmentalism and Native American rights, among other topics....

Two Native Americans struggle to make the transition from their home reservation to the city life, but soon find a solution in an advertised remedy that promises to transform their primitive behavior, to the ranks of the refined and successful....