Native Films

A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.

Life in a remote Indian Reservation is stirred up when one of its Elders begins to question the death of Hank Williams.

A story centered on a Native American lacrosse team making its way through a prep school league tournament.

Red Crow Mi'kmaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna's. That means being at the mercy of "Popper", the sadistic Indian agent who runs the school.

As her younger brother schemes to commit robbery, a jailed American Indian finds love with another woman.

Story of an aboriginal family who tries to move out of the fringe into the main white community.

A pilot and his passenger struggle for survival after crashing in the Arctic tundra.

The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.

Three generations of First Nations women struggle to deal with the demons of their past.

A Canadian aboriginal woman journeys to the Arctic in search of a missing member of her tribe, and falls in love with a man from a rival clan.

Raised in the suburbs of Phoenix, a Navajo college student must choose between a vacation in Rome or moving to the reservation to care for her ailing grandmother.

Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.

The work that led Wilma Mankiller to become the first modern female Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

AIM leader Dennis Banks looks back at his early life and the rise of the American Indian Movement.

A political thriller during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activist are arrested and maintain in custody in a sheriff's office. They will meet a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie star who is also an activist. Feb 2013 will be the 40Th anniversary of the insurrection...

A story of life on a First Nations reserve in Ontario: Silas and Frank are trying to get into college to train to be mechanics but they find themselves having to deal with girls, family - and murder.

Anna is nervous when she and her son, Tomas, arrive in the small, close-knit community of Igloolik, in the Canadian Arctic.

Isolated in the harsh wilderness of the Arctic, a hunter follows the teachings of survival passed on to him by his grandfather. In an environment government by the spirits of the land, a taboo is broken and he is forced to face the consequences.

Aboriginal Canadian women with diverse approaches to the healing process confront the current health crisis plaguing Canada's First Nations communities. For each, life's calling has been a struggle. Braided together with music and personal healing stories, traditional healing and modern medicine join forces to collectively address the physical, mental and spiritual health of all Aboriginal Canadians.

A high school cross country star growing up in a Native American community faces a barrage of personal struggles the day before the most important race of his life.

A confrontation between a tribe of First Nations people and two road builders will change an entire nation forever.

Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.

A mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?

Based on a true story, a black educator takes a job teaching high-school English at the Three Nations Reservation, and is coaxed into coaching the girls basketball team.

A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.