Keyword: residential school
Pour toi Flora
8.3
2022
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\Pour toi Flora\ is the story of Algonquin siblings, who spent their youth in an Indian Residential School in the 1960s and who are now trying to make peace with this painful past. From the moment they were forcibly removed from the parents by religious authority to the events that led them back to each other forty-five years later, this dramatic mini-series intertwines different times in their lives to tell the story of one Indigenous familys forced estrangement and the path it took to heal.
Pour toi Flora
Bones of Crows
6.6
2022
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Cree code talker Aline Spears survives her traumatic past in Canadas residential school system to continue her familys generational fight against systemic starvation, racism and sexual abuse.
Bones of Crows
Indian Horse
7.3
2017
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Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
Indian Horse
V.C. Andrews' Pearl in the Mist
7.5
2021
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Based on the second book, Pearl in the Mist finds Ruby still struggling to find true happiness, after a year of living at her fathers lavish mansion. When Ruby and her twin Giselle (Karina Banno) are sent away to an exclusive all-girls boarding school, Ruby is hopeful for a new start with her sister. But when Ruby is once again shamed for her backwater upbringing, and her cruel Headmistress, Mrs. Ironwood (Henner), along with her stepmother Daphne (Bell) and Giselle continues to plot against her, Ruby must endure torturous punishments and public humiliation. Ruby holds out hope and continues to dream of a better future until tragedy leaves her alone in a world of deceits.
V.C. Andrews' Pearl in the Mist
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
6.5
2013
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In 1976, a MigMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are common.
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
The Last Stop
7.7
2017
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The Élan School was a for-profit, residential behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school located deep within the woods of Maine. Delinquent teenagers who failed to comply with other treatment programs were referred to the school as a last resort. Treatment entailed harsh discipline, surveillance, degradation, and downright abuse. Years later, the patients who were institutionalized in this facility still carry the trauma they endured, with mixed opinions on the impact of their experience.
The Last Stop
We Were Children
7.4
2012
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For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of Canadas First Nations children were legally required to attend government-funded schools run by various Christian faiths. There were 80 of these residential schools across the country. Most children were sent to faraway schools that separated them from their families and traditional land. These children endured brutality, physical hardship, mental degradation, and the complete erasure of their culture. The schools were part of a wider program of assimilation designed to integrate the native population into Canadian society. These schools were established with the express purpose To kill the Indian in the child. Told through their own voices, We Were Children is the shocking true story of two such children: Glen Anaquod and Lyna Hart.
We Were Children