Movies: Aboriginal

  • 2016
    Four Faces of the Moon

    Four Faces of the Moon (2016)

    Four Faces of the Moon

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    Follow the animated journey of an Indigenous photographer as she travels through time. The oral and written history of her family reveals the story — we witness the impact and legacy of the railways, the slaughter of the buffalo and colonial land po...

    Four Faces of the Moon
  • 1999
    Deep Inside Clint Star

    Deep Inside Clint Star (1999)

    Deep Inside Clint Star

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    Director Clint Alberta takes us on a hilarious and bittersweet journey into the hearts and minds of some very ordinary, extraordinary young Canadians. Clint, taking on the role of Clint Star, seeks out his far-flung buddies, young Natives like himsel...

    Deep Inside Clint Star
  • 2013
    A Common Experience

    A Common Experience (2013)

    A Common Experience

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    A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal playwright Yvette Nolan....

    A Common Experience
  • 2015
    Of Ravens and Children

    Of Ravens and Children (2015)

    Of Ravens and Children

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    Of Ravens and Children
  • 2010
    Buffy

    Buffy (2010)

    Buffy

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    Folk music icon Buffy Sainte-Marie became internationally renowned with her protest song "Universal Soldier." In this short documentary, she candidly discusses her hopes, creative vision and songwriting skills, as well as her role as an Aboriginal ac...

    Buffy
  • 2018
    She Who Must Be Loved

    She Who Must Be Loved (2018)

    She Who Must Be Loved

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    A documentary that tells the epic life story of Alfreda Glynn, 78-year-old Aboriginal woman, stills photographer, co-founder of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), and Imparja TV, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, radic...

    She Who Must Be Loved
  • 2016
    this river

    this river (2016)

    this river

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    Join a grassroots collective of volunteers as they search Winnipeg’s Red River and its banks for clues to find out what happened to their missing family and friends. The documentary demonstrates the devastating experience of searching for a loved one...

    this river
  • 1997
    The Last of the Nomads

    The Last of the Nomads (1997)

    The Last of the Nomads

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    Like an antipodean version of Romeo and Juliet, it emerges that Warri and Yatungka became the last nomads because they had married outside their tribal laws and eloped to the most inaccessible of regions. In 1977 the land was stricken by a severe dro...

    The Last of the Nomads
  • 1997
    Eye of the Storm

    Eye of the Storm (1997)

    Eye of the Storm

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    A documentary about Nain, a Labrador Inuit community located near the world's largest nickel and copper deposits. As commercial mining interests prepare to exploit the resources, local residents consider the potential environmental and cultural impac...

    Eye of the Storm
  • 2025
    Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe

    Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe (2025)

    Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe

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    A story of resistance across generations, the power of family and the unrelenting struggle for justice in a country that remains in denial....

    Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe
  • 2003
    Our Nationhood

    Our Nationhood (2003)

    Our Nationhood

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    In this feature-length documentary, Indigenous filmmaker and artist Alanis Obomsawin chronicles the determination and tenacity of the Listuguj Mi'kmaq people to use and manage the natural resources of their traditional lands. The film provides a cont...

    Our Nationhood
  • 2022
    Crimson Plains

    Crimson Plains (2022)

    Crimson Plains

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    Two Aboriginal brothers are put in a hard situation by a miner who kills a man for gold. Based on real events....

    Crimson Plains
  • 2016
    Tshiuetin

    Tshiuetin (2016)

    Tshiuetin

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    Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations-owned railway. Come for the celebration of the power of independence, the crucial importance of aboriginal owned businesses and stay for the beauty o...

    Tshiuetin
  • 2007
    Sacha Runa Yachay

    Sacha Runa Yachay (2007)

    Sacha Runa Yachay

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    The elders of the Kichwa community of Sarayaku preserve the history of their land for the youngest. They save the knowledge of their traditions against modernity and the invasion of their territory....

    Sacha Runa Yachay
  • 2009
    Shi-Shi-Etko

    Shi-Shi-Etko (2009)

    Shi-Shi-Etko

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    Young native Indian Shi-Shi-Etko will soon be taken away from her home to begin her formal western education at a residential school, which were designed to solve the Indian "problem". Her mother, father and grandmother want her to remember her nativ...

    Shi-Shi-Etko
  • 2008
    Outback Art: The Gold Rush

    Outback Art: The Gold Rush (2008)

    Outback Art: The Gold Rush

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    A look at the recent trend for collecting aboriginal art and the issues surrounding it....

    Outback Art: The Gold Rush
  • 2007
    First Stories: Two Spirited

    First Stories: Two Spirited (2007)

    First Stories: Two Spirited

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    This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a two-spirited person....

    First Stories: Two Spirited
  • 1998
    My Colour, Your Kind

    My Colour, Your Kind (1998)

    My Colour, Your Kind

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    A portrait of an albino Aboriginal teenager, her feelings of alienation while at a convent boarding school, and her dreams of escape....

    My Colour, Your Kind
  • 1969
    Healing the nation

    Healing the nation (1969)

    Healing the nation

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    Healing the Nation follows community members of the Toronto-based Aboriginal Healing Program as they rediscover their culture to heal from unresolved trauma. This empowering documentary dares us to think beyond mainstream medicine and embrace Indigen...

    Healing the nation
  • 2017
    Bakala

    Bakala (2017)

    Bakala

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    Anindilyakwa man, Steve 'Bakala' Wurramara is afflicted with a profound hereditary neurodegenerative disorder. While modern medicine looks for answers, the stories of an ancient curse and black magic still permeate this remote Aboriginal community in...

    Bakala