Indigenous Rights Movies

For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada...

"A documentary film which looks at the issue of British Columbia Native land claims and how the aboriginals link their culture to the land, which has...

Oil extraction in the Amazon region is contaminating the land and water of a natural paradise. A slow process that threatens the health and...

Mauri (life principle, life force, vital essence inherent in all living things) The film is an intimate, visually stunning testament to a land and a...

The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They...

Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that...

In the year 2061, where only one utilitarian race -- known as 'The Nation' -- is recognized, a Native American man is imprisoned for speaking his...

Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the...

Described as an intimate biopic of photographer and Indigenous rights activist Claudia Andujar. Plot TBA.

A Sámi woman fights for her right to claim a tax deduction against the purchase of a dog. Why the Swedish authorities fail to recognize the...

Combining ecological imperatives, unique land narratives, cultural folklore, ancestral agricultural traditions, and farming practices side by side...

In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three young Inuit boys were separated from their families...

This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.

Examines the violence and civil disobedience leading up to the hallmark decision in U.S. v. Washington, with particular reference to the Nisqually...

This illuminating film documents the largest radioactive waste spill in U.S. history - a national tragedy that received little attention. With the...

The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put...

This documentary first aired in Britain in May 1994 during the height of the Ogoni conflict in which a small Nigerian minority, the Ogoni, rose up...

"Here Where It All Ends" is an experimental, poetic short film that moves between documentary and fiction to address an endangered culture, that of...

This powerful short documentary showing Indigenous youth resistance and emerging voices that will continue to define the landscape of Indigenous...

This film follows the aftermath of the Oka crisis, which brought Indigenous rights into sharp focus. After the barricades came down, the Royal...