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poster
Amazon Prime Video
84
8.5
/42873/
84
/1310/
82
/663/
4.3
/39352/
81
/26/
96
/21691/

Baraka (1992)
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
poster
The Roku Channel
83
7.5
/13839/
73
/491/
73
/310/
3.9
/22440/
96
/165/
86
/49/
85
/27/

Birds of Passage (2018)
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.9
/38999/
76
/802/
74
/471/
4.0
/22693/
93
/45/
95
/1703/
77
/20/
cc age 17+

Once Were Warriors (1994)
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
poster
81
7.7
/6000/
77
/112/
71
/77/
3.9
/8324/
92
/61/
82
/159/
75
/10/

El Norte (1983)
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.8
/25693/
77
/786/
76
/492/
4.2
/38966/
97
/147/
85
/177/
82
/31/

Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
poster
Disney Plus
81
IMDb 86
7.9
/1481658/
78
/69308/
76
/33333/
3.7
/2671943/
81
/335/
82
/83119/
83
/38/
cc age 13+

Avatar (2009)
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
poster
Hulu
78
7.8
/451/
72
/28/
62
/4/
4.0
/1786/
100
/24/
77
/10/
85
/6/

Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022)
Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to the promise of the Land Back movement, in this lyrical testament to resilience of a nation.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.6
/3055/
77
/98/
69
/73/
3.9
/6227/
93
/46/
80
/10/
80
/18/

The Pearl Button (2015)
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
poster
MUBI
75
6.9
/6581/
65
/304/
67
/143/
3.6
/36924/
94
/62/
68
/12/
80
/19/

The Settlers (2023)
Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
6.3
/1013/
61
/56/
64
/23/
3.5
/5741/
92
/50/
70
/13/
82
/14/

The Unknown Country (2023)
A grieving woman embarks on an unexpected road trip as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss and seeks to understand her place in the world.
poster
Netflix
72
6.4
/2895/
66
/395/
64
/77/
3.4
/10727/
94
/35/
80
/48/
69
/10/
cc age 13+

Rez Ball (2024)
After losing their star player, a high school basketball team rooted in Native American culture must unite to keep their state championship dreams alive.
poster
71
6.9
/227/
70
/14/
48
/6/
3.6
/797/
95
/22/

Against the Tide (2023)
Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.
poster
fuboTV
69
7.5
/108311/
72
/2088/
73
/1681/
3.9
/115389/
69
/52/
88
/3163/
62
/20/

Dead Man (1995)
On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
poster
Kanopy
74
68
6.9
/4848/
71
/202/
65
/107/
3.6
/4089/
93
/40/
77
/31/
75
/11/

Tanna (2015)
In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.
poster
Kanopy
66
6.7
/505/
68
/30/
71
/12/
3.7
/1290/
79
/14/
47
/4/
62
/6/

There's Something in the Water (2019)
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 futures.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
60
6.6
/44272/
69
/3466/
68
/614/
3.0
/60084/
51
/161/
70
/1664/
49
/47/
cc age 16+

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy finds himself on the run with a prostitute and a young boy after killing a fellow gunman.
poster
60
6.4
/5665/
67
/165/
63
/153/
3.1
/1627/
62
/46/

Rapa Nui (1994)
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
poster
Hoopla
60
5.6
/6251/
58
/536/
57
/187/
3.0
/18232/
90
/92/
41
/58/
63
/11/

Blood Quantum (2019)
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.
poster
57
6.7
/300/
56
/8/
57
/9/
71
/11/

Broken Rainbow (1985)
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
poster
Kanopy
56
6.0
/37990/
63
/998/
62
/900/
3.0
/27558/
55
/51/
32
/1245/
61
/11/
cc age 13+

King Kong (1976)
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
poster
Kanopy
56
6.4
/34843/
64
/980/
63
/890/
2.9
/18263/
30
/23/
50
/284/
47
/21/

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
poster
Netflix
56
6.4
/247259/
67
/8765/
63
/4419/
3.1
/167762/
23
/30/
72
/21889/
43
/17/

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
poster
Hoopla
55
6.0
/14244/
63
/400/
59
/260/
2.9
/4556/
39
/104/
cc age 12+

Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.
poster
Kanopy
71
47
6.8
/840/
68
/28/
66
/34/
3.6
/1378/
87
/15/
65
/76/

Moana (1926)
Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized “Gauguin idyll,” the film celebrates daily rituals, communal traditions, and the passage into adulthood, suffused with what Flaherty called “pride of beauty, pride of strength.”
poster
Kanopy
72
47
7.1
/1472/
67
/27/
66
/21/
3.6
/1269/
69
/13/
90
/148/

Dance Me Outside (1995)
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 the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
46
7.0
/1955/
67
/75/
69
/32/
3.8
/10824/
85
/17/

Clearcut (1991)
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.
poster
63
40
5.8
/1608/
66
/52/
56
/31/
3.2
/898/
86
/28/
53
/25/

The Turning (2013)
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
poster
40
5.1
/139028/
58
/4440/
55
/3109/
2.0
/50937/
10
/147/
37
/21540/
34
/29/
cc age 13+

10,000 BC (2008)
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
poster
Hulu
74
39
6.8
/746/
71
/62/
68
/14/
3.5
/1030/
95
/19/

Bones of Crows (2023)
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 codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.
poster
69
34
6.5
/462/
60
/21/
68
/10/
3.5
/1777/
100
/5/
54
/5/

Edge of the Knife (2018)
Island of Haida Gwaii, northern Canada, 19th century. During a fishing gathering, Adiits'ii commits an unfortunate act. Tormented, he runs away to the wilderness as his mind embraces madness.
poster
62
33
6.9
/1427/
62
/18/
58
/32/
3.4
/743/
56
/392/

Outcast of the Islands (1951)
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
poster
Kanopy
80
33
7.7
/403/
74
/21/
74
/12/
3.9
/1633/
86
/7/
94
/3/

Angry Inuk (2016)
With "sealfies" and social media, a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world of activism, using humour and reason to confront aggressive animal rights vitriol and defend their traditional hunting practices. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins her fellow Inuit activists as they challenge outdated perceptions of Inuit and present themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
31
4.5
/322/
52
/25/
52
/8/
50
/12/
87
/56/

The Stolen Valley (2024)
To save her dying mother, a Mexican-Navajo mechanic bands together with an outlaw cowgirl to confront a corrupt landowner.
poster
Kanopy
62
29
5.4
/246/
40
/13/
54
/8/
3.1
/690/
100
/14/

This Place (2022)
Living in the liminal space between worlds, two young women find themselves falling in love for the first time, while also being forced to unexpectedly confront their families, each complicated by legacies of love and loss.
poster
73
29
6.6
/334/
63
/20/
72
/5/
3.6
/1036/
100
/5/
69
/6/

Ainu Mosir (2020)
Kanto, 14, a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, decides to visit a hole in the forest — a path to the other side of the world where dead people live, hoping to see his deceased father.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
29
7.9
/557/
73
/28/
74
/14/
4.2
/3189/
86
/5/

Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance (1993)
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.
poster
Kanopy
69
28
6.9
/100/
60
/4/
50
/1/
3.5
/944/
100
/10/

maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (2020)
An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their own relationships to the spirit world and a place in between life and death.
poster
Kanopy
78
28
7.6
/580/
77
/27/
72
/17/
3.6
/509/
91
/11/
80
/1/

When Two Worlds Collide (2016)
In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, whose impassioned speeches against Garcia’s destructive actions prove a powerful rallying cry to throngs of his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.
poster
54
26
5.6
/1089/
49
/46/
60
/22/
2.7
/1355/

Vanamagan (2017)
An Andaman tribal who escapes from men trying to capture his people, ends up in the care of a spoilt, rich girl, who starts to fall in love with him.
poster
81
25
7.6
/159/
77
/22/
67
/7/
3.8
/648/
92
/13/
100
/2/

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)
This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child and director Hepi Mita discovers the filmmaker he never knew and shares the mother he lost, with the world.
poster
81
21
7.6
/11/
78
/20/
90
/1/
4.0
/2016/

The White Archer (2010)
An Inuit youth trains to become a great archer in hopes of avenging the killing of his family – but the First Nations attackers were punishing a previous Inuit wrongdoing. Who will end the cycle of violence? THE WHITE ARCHER is an Inuit legend inspired the late James Houston’s beloved children’s book. In Canada’s High Arctic hamlet of Pond Inlet, his son John weaves outdoor adventure and local theatre into a story for all ages.
poster
69
19
7.1
/318/
69
/11/
65
/11/
3.6
/1099/

Ex-Shaman (2018)
Ever since their first contact with the Western world in 1969 the Paiter Suruí, an indigenous people living in the Amazon basin, have been exposed to sweeping social changes. Smartphones, gas, electricity, medicines, weapons and social media have now replaced their traditional way of life. Illness is a risk for a community increasingly unable to isolate itself from the modernization brought by white people or the power of the church. Ethnocide threatens to destroy their soul. With dogged persistence, Perpera, a former shaman, is searching for a way to restore the old vitality to his village.
poster
65
18
7.0
/563/
70
/19/
56
/10/
3.2
/1070/

Desmundo (2002)
The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570.
poster
76
16
7.8
/210/
75
/10/
73
/10/
3.9
/782/

The Hills of Disorder (2006)
Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna. But Carapiru is suddenly forced to fend for himself and flees into the nearby rain forest, building a new life for himself with the help some sympathetic settlers. However, after rebuilding his life Carapiru is uprooted once again, this time by government agents. A expressive visual storytelling in this study of the native peoples of Brazil in the 21st century.
poster
Hoopla
44
15
5.2
/630/
52
/9/
38
/12/
35
/48/

That Beautiful Somewhere (2007)
A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumoured to have curative powers. It is the story of two wounded souls searching for healing and redemption
poster
78
11
7.7
/203/
80
/8/
80
/5/
3.8
/592/

Piripkura (2018)
The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation. Living deep in the rainforest, Pakyî and Tamandua live off the land relying on a machete, an ax, and a torch lit in 1998.
poster
The Roku Channel
56
9
7.5
/114/
10
/1/
68
/4/
3.7
/591/

The Ballad of Crowfoot (1968)
Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canada’s first music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew, the first all-Indigenous production unit at the NFB. The film is a powerful look at colonial betrayals, told through a striking montage of archival images and a ballad composed by Dunn himself about the legendary 19th-century Siksika (Blackfoot) chief who negotiated Treaty 7 on behalf of the Blackfoot Confederacy. The IFC’s inaugural release, Crowfoot was the first Indigenous-directed film to be made at the NFB.
poster
72
8
6.8
/67/
80
/1/
70
/1/
3.6
/703/

Atikamekw Suns (2024)
Manawan, 1977. A vehicle falls into a river near a Native community. Two Quebecers managed to escape, but five Atikamekws lost their lives. While the police conclude that it was an accident, the victims’ families are left with unanswered questions. A historical, poetic and choral tale, Soleils Atikamekw is inspired by the dreams, impressions and memories of the relatives of the five victims. In an intimate, humanistic approach, the filmmaker involves the families both in front of and behind the camera. Documentary and fiction come together in a deeply moving film about grief, injustice and memory.


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