Indigenous Rights Movies

  • 2022
    People Unite!

    People Unite!

    People Unite!

    02022HD

    In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, People of Color organizers come together to organize...

    People Unite!
  • 1984
    Where the Green Ants Dream

    Where the Green Ants Dream

    Where the Green Ants Dream

    6.91984HD

    The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbe...

    Where the Green Ants Dream
  • 1992
    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    01992HD

    This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.

    Surviving Columbus
  • 2024
    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims

    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims

    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims

    02024HD

    "A documentary film which looks at the issue of British Columbia Native land claims and how the aboriginals link their culture to the land, which has...

    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims
  • 2023
    Here Where It All Ends

    Here Where It All Ends

    Here Where It All Ends

    02023HD

    "Here Where It All Ends" is an experimental, poetic short film that moves between documentary and fiction to address an endangered culture, that of in...

    Here Where It All Ends
  • 2023
    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

    02023HD

    The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the prox...

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance
  • 1996
    No Turning Back

    No Turning Back

    No Turning Back

    01996HD

    This film follows the aftermath of the Oka crisis, which brought Indigenous rights into sharp focus. After the barricades came down, the Royal Commiss...

    No Turning Back
  • 1993
    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    7.31993HD

    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 confront...

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance
  • 2022
    Motherland Memories

    Motherland Memories

    Motherland Memories

    02022HD

    Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that interwe...

    Motherland Memories
  • 2019
    Trouble In The Garden

    Trouble In The Garden

    Trouble In The Garden

    82019HD

    A jailed activist is bailed out by her brother, who happens to be involved with the very land development she was protesting.

    Trouble In The Garden
  • 1975
    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

    01975HD

    Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the Potlatch...

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
  • 2024
    Mauri

    Mauri

    Mauri

    02024HD

    Mauri (life principle, life force, vital essence inherent in all living things) The film is an intimate, visually stunning testament to a land and a...

    Mauri
  • 2020
    The Last Ice

    The Last Ice

    The Last Ice

    8.62020HD

    For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada and...

    The Last Ice
  • 2011
    The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs

    The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs

    The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs

    02011HD

    Personal accounts from the Alta actions in the years 1979 to 1981. Large police forces were deployed against the demonstrators. The dispute over the A...

    The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs
  • 2017
    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

    02017HD

    The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put land art...

    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
  • 2015
    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

    02015HD

    A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as tol...

    Taking Alcatraz
  • 1974
    Our Land Is Our Life

    Our Land Is Our Life

    Our Land Is Our Life

    01974HD

    In March, 1974, the Cree of the Mistassini area in northern Québec met to discuss their long-term future. After three hundred years of minimal contact...

    Our Land Is Our Life
  • 2020
    Invasion

    Invasion

    Invasion

    8.32020HD

    In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en...

    Invasion
  • 2017
    Idle no More

    Idle no More

    Idle no More

    02017HD

    Ginger Côté uses the words of Heather Archibald, an activist who grew up in foster care and who died, to honor the memory of the young woman and also...

    Idle no More
  • 2024
    First Warrior

    First Warrior

    First Warrior

    02024HD

    Australia was colonized in the late 1700s. Pemulwuy, a man of the Bidjigal tribes — from the region that is today modern-day Sydney — led a 12-year re...

    First Warrior