Directed by Ivan Sen • Drama • With Daniel Connors, Michael Connors, Christopher Edwards • 2011 • 101 minutes

In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, wh...

Directed by Ivan Sen • Drama • With Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt, Jenna Lee Connors • 2011 • 90 minutes

Lena is a fair-skinned teenage girl with a dark skinned mother in an isolated Australian town. She rejects the Indigenous family that surrounds her, and longs for the love of her Irish father. ...

Directed by Anneleen Ophoff • Documentary • 2022 • 26 minutes

Augustine, Charmaine and Jim are some of the hundreds of thousands of Native American children placed in residential schools since the 1870s. The United States government funded over 360 boarding schools which systematically destroyed...

Directed by Anne Worthington • Documentary • 2022 • 31 minutes

In 2021, in the small rural town of Genoa Nebraska, a harrowing search commenced to locate the graves of Native America children who were taken from their tribes and sent to the Genoa U.S Indian Industrial School, one of America’s la...

Directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West • Documentary • 2022 • 95 minutes

A comprehensive look at the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find harmful, demeaning, and offensive. The film examines mascoting issues through archival foota...

Directed by Anna Sofaer • Documentary • With Christopher Beaver • 2024 • 58 minutes

Written on the Landscape: Mysteries Beyond Chaco Canyon conveys to viewers the brilliant achievements of the Chaco civilization -- many of which are in grave danger today. This documentary reveals the astounding ...

Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe • Documentary • 2021 • 76 minutes

This illuminating essay uses film scenes to tell of the forced cultural appropriation of a world-famous landscape. Monument Valley is one of the most recognizable landscapes in the world. Its iconographic use in American Western...

Directed by Suvi West, Anssi Kömi • Documentary • 2023 • 76 minutes

Filmmaker Suvi West takes the audience behind the scenes of the museum world, revealing a visual, philosophical, and spiritual realm. Sámi herself, she seeks a connection with her ancestors through old museum objects, eventually...

Directed by Paul M. Rickard • Documentary • 2006 • 93 minutes

ABORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE, LIVING ARCHITECTURE offers a fascinating in-depth look into the diversity of North American Native architecture. Featuring expert commentary and stunning imagery, this program provides a virtual tour of seven ...

Directed by Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman • Documentary • 2022 • 53 minutes

Town Destroyer explores the ways we look at art and history at a time of racial reckoning. The story focuses on a dispute over historic murals depicting the life of George Washington: slaveowner, general, land speculator,...

Directed by Anne Marthe Blindheim • Documentary • 2023 • 72 minutes

Sami singer Ella is torn between her strong ties to her hometown in Finnmark and her new life in Oslo with her boyfriend and a successful career with her band ISÁK. But when a mining company threatens Sami land and water, she de...

Directed by Olivier Magis • Documentary • 2019 • 82 minutes

Fifty years ago, the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place to facilitate the leasing of the main island, Diego Garcia, to the US government so that it co...

Directed by Ciro Guerra • Drama • With Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet • 2015 • 125 minutes

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning b...

Directed by Maya Newell • Documentary • 2019 • 84 minutes

Dujuan is a 10-year-old Arrernte boy from Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in Australia. Full of life and exuberance, he learns, with the support of his loving mother and grandmother, to hunt, speak two Indigenous languages and become a healer. D...

Directed by Aurélio Michiles • Documentary • With Stephen Rea • 2020 • 83 minutes

This is a documentary about the man widely considered to be the pioneer of international human rights inquiries, Roger Casement (1864-1916). His work in Africa, Brazil, and his native Ireland still has repercussion...

Directed by Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati • Documentary • 2020 • 78 minutes

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An immersive marvel of sonic ethnography, Expedition Content draws on audio recordings made by recent college graduate...

Directed by Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes • Documentary • 2019 • 75 minutes

On a windy night in the Colombian desert, a young Wayúu woman named Doris sleeps in her hammock and has a dream that she reunites with a deceased cousin. When she awakens and shares the encounter with her g...

Directed by Christopher Walker • Documentary • 2019 • 90 minutes

Since the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, Ecuador’s Waorani tribe, have defended their Amazon rainforest with spears. In the 1950’s American missionaries cleared the way for oil companies to enter Waorani lands. Now 70% of Ec...

Directed by Saila Huusko & Jasper Rischen • Documentary • 2017 • 82 minutes

The Navajo Nation is the largest Native American reservation in the United States. Every four years, the Navajo tribe elects its president, whom many consider the most powerful Native American in the country. In the mids...

Directed by Peter Friedman, Roger Manley • Documentary • 2005 • 92 minutes

MANA - Beyond Belief is a journey from a Navajo medicine man’s mud-covered hogan to the eternity of outer space, from the most ancient of technologies to the most complex, from the concrete world of objects to the abstrac...

Directed by Reuben Aaronson & Sarah DuPont • Documentary • With Herbie Hancock, Sissy Spacek • 2016 • 63 minutes

Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, RIVER OF GOLD is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru’s Amazon rainforest to uncover the savage...

Directed by Rolf De Heer • Drama • With David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford • 2014 • 108 minutes

Living in a remote Aboriginal community in the northern part of Australia, Charlie is a warrior past his prime. As the government increases its stranglehold over the community’s traditional way ...

Directed by Hatuey Viveros Lavielle • Documentary • 2014 • 80 minutes

Jorge is preparing to graduate from law school-the first person from his mountain village in Mexico ever to do so. Chayo, his pregnant 16-year-old sister, faces the most difficult decision of her young life. Meanwhile their qu...

Directed by Charles Wilkinson • Documentary • 2020 • 80 minutes

Haida artist Robert Davidson is one of the foremost cultural icons of the age. HAIDA MODERN features candid and revealing conversations with the artist himself, along with commentary from art historians, politicians, musicians and f...