Indigenous Women Movies
- 2024
Fancy Dance
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Following her sister's disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what's left of their family intact, Jax and Roki...
- 2006
Finding Dawn
Finding Dawn02006HD
Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh presents a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and...
- 1986
Mistress Madeleine
Mistress Madeleine01986HD
Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the...
- 1991
Women in the Shadows
Women in the Shadows01991HD
Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces the filmmaker's quest for her Native foremothers...
- 2024
Waira
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In an isolated community, a young indigenous woman fights for her freedom after enduring sexual assaults. Confronted with a life-altering decision,...
- 2006
Stealing Mary: Last of the Red Indians
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Two human skulls in a Scottish museum spark a forensic investigation into the tragic disappearance of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland. The clues...
- 1992
Surviving Columbus
Surviving Columbus01992HD
This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.
- 2000
The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters
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For almost a century, the Coast Salish knitters of southern Vancouver Island have produced Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. These distinctive...
- 2023
Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun
Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun02023HD
An intimate and thrilling portrait of a young Siksika woman and the deep bonds between her father and family in the golden plains of Blackfoot...
- 1986
Ikwe
Ikwe11986HD
A young Ojibwa girl from 1770 marries a Scottish fur trader and leaves home for the shores of Georgian Bay. Although the union is beneficial for her...
- 2012
These Walls
These Walls72012HD
Mary is catapulted into a horrific struggle to right old wrongs when she discovers the bones of the missing and murdered babies of an Indian...
- 2014
The Letter
The Letter42014HD
A young woman returns to her rural Mexican village after a few years away to find out if her first love can be revived.
- 2017
Ohero:kon - Under the Husk
Ohero:kon - Under the Husk62017HD
This documentary follows two Mohawk girls on their journey to become Mohawk women. Friends since childhood, Kaienkwinehtha and Kasennakohe are...
- 2020
Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible
Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible12020HD
As the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic affects tribal communities, a group of Blackfeet women tackle the threat head-on by...
- 2018
Nuuca
Nuuca72018HD
In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence...
- 1970
The Bears on Pine Ridge
The Bears on Pine Ridge01970HD
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has declared a “State of Emergency”, after an outbreak of youth suicides has devastated the community....
- 2019
MONTAÑAS
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Bolivia's Climbing Cholitas - a group of indigenous women scaling the Andes Mountains, some of the highest peaks in the world. Shot in Bolivia for...
- 2022
Cosmovisions
Cosmovisions02022HD
In Southern Bahia, seven indigenous women invite to reflection, sharing their mythology, ancestry and paths to living well.
- 2023
Gabriela
Gabriela02023HD
A young undocumented Guatemalan woman dreams of joining a Country Club swim team in the American South.
- 2022
Motherland Memories
Motherland Memories02022HD
Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that...