Keyword: indigenous peoples

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

8.2

2021

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Witness the work of community members with substance-use disorder, first responders, and health professionals in the Kainai First Nation as they bring hope and change through harm reduction to Blackfoot people.

Resident Orca

7.4

2024

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A decades-long mission to free Lolita, a captive orca held in Americas smallest whale tank, unites Indigenous leaders, experts, and activists. As her health declines, they race against time to reunite her with her wild family.

Secret of the Incas

5.7

1954

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An adventurer searchers for hidden treasure in the Peruvian jungles.

Powwow Highway

7.2

1988

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Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.

Soldier Blue

6.9

1970

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After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.

Sami Blood

7.3

2016

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A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930s at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

Tanna

6.9

2015

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Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sisters loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.

Windwalker

7

1980

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In 1797 Utah, an aged Cheyenne patriarch helps his kin to fight off a raiding party of rival Crow warriors and he tells his grandchildren the story of their family.

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.

When Two Worlds Collide

7.7

2016

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An indigenous environmental activist takes on the large businesses that are destroying the Amazon.

The Pearl Button

7.6

2015

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Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochets coup détat, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

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1993

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A film account about the military 1990 siege of a Native American reserve near Oka, Quebec, Canada and its causes.