Native American Movies

  • 1970
    Tasunke Witko

    Tasunke Witko

    Tasunke Witko

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    Told from the perspective of contemporary Lakota people, the film explores the life of Crazy Horse (Tasunke Witko). Viewers see the natural world of...

    Tasunke Witko
  • 1989
    Children of Wind River

    Children of Wind River

    Children of Wind River

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    A film made by Victress Hitchcock and Ava Hamilton in 1989 on the Wind River Reservation for Wyoming Public Television.

    Children of Wind River
  • 2007
    The Creek Runs Red

    The Creek Runs Red

    The Creek Runs Red

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    The town of Picher, Oklahoma, was once home to the world's richest lead and zinc mining field. After decades of mining, towering piles of mine waste...

    The Creek Runs Red
  • 2016
    Dig It If You Can

    Dig It If You Can

    Dig It If You Can

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    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...

    Dig It If You Can
  • 1994
    Indian America: A Gift from the Past

    Indian America: A Gift from the Past

    Indian America: A Gift from the Past

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    In 1970 a storm uncovers an ancient whaling village called Ozette which had been buried some 500 years ago by a massive mudslide. The resulting...

    Indian America: A Gift from the Past
  • 2018
    Growing Native Alaska: People of the North

    Growing Native Alaska: People of the North

    Growing Native Alaska: People of the North

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    All across Alaska, Native cultures have depended on the abundant natural resources found there to support their families, cultures and way of life....

    Growing Native Alaska: People of the North
  • 1977
    The American Indian's Sacred Ground

    The American Indian's Sacred Ground

    The American Indian's Sacred Ground

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    For generations the American Indians have drawn their legendary strength from their sacred ancestral lands. Academy-Award winner Cliff Robertson...

    The American Indian's Sacred Ground
  • 2018
    Amá

    Amá

    Amá

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    Amá is a feature length documentary which tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the...

    Amá
  • 1994
    For Angela

    For Angela

    For Angela

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    A young Native child struggles with her identity.

    For Angela
  • 2016
    Badger Creek

    Badger Creek

    Badger Creek

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    Badger Creek is a portrait of Native resilience as seen through a year in the life of three generations of a Blackfeet family living on the rez in...

    Badger Creek
  • 2021
    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

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    For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...

    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
  • 2017
    Tribal Justice

    Tribal Justice

    Tribal Justice

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    Two formidable Native American women, both chief judges in their tribe's courts, strive to reduce incarceration rates and heal their people by...

    Tribal Justice
  • 2014
    Tracing Roots

    Tracing Roots

    Tracing Roots

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    A new documentary that follows master Haida weaver Delores Churchill on a journey to replicate a spruce root hat discovered with the Long Ago Person...

    Tracing Roots
  • 1987
    The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People

    The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People

    The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People

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    Follows U.S., Canadian, and European scientists from the barrens of Labrador - where archaeologists uncover an ancient stone burial mound - to sites...

    The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People
  • 2016
    INAATE/SE/

    INAATE/SE/

    INAATE/SE/

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    INAATE/SE/ re-imagines an ancient Ojibway story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans. A...

    INAATE/SE/
  • 2007
    Standing Silent Nation

    Standing Silent Nation

    Standing Silent Nation

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    When the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family...

    Standing Silent Nation
  • 1962
    An Indian Story

    An Indian Story

    An Indian Story

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    Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian.

    An Indian Story
  • 1985
    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

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    Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow tribe's turbulent past with modern-day accounts...

    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
  • 2018
    Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People

    Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People

    Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People

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    Oklahoma is home to thirty-nine federally recognized tribes. Nowhere in North America will you find such diversity among Native Peoples, and nowhere...

    Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People
  • 2017
    Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio and Manifest Destiny

    Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio and Manifest Destiny

    Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio and Manifest Destiny

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    A look into the 19th century American-Indian Wars, Manifest Destiny, and the conflicts between Apache tribes and the African-American Buffalo soldier...

    Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio and Manifest Destiny