Indigenous Rights Movies

  • 2014
    The Burden of Being

    The Burden of Being

    The Burden of Being

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

    The Burden of Being
  • 2025
    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    02025HD

    Through interviews with Inuit across Nunavut, and documentation of a three-year community hearing process during the COVID pandemic, award-winning...

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit
  • 2016
    Promised Land

    Promised Land

    Promised Land

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    Promised Land is a social justice documentary that follows two tribes in the Pacific Northwest: the Duwamish and the Chinook, as they fight for the...

    Promised Land
  • 2025
    James Bay 1975: The Shock of Two Nations

    James Bay 1975: The Shock of Two Nations

    James Bay 1975: The Shock of Two Nations

    02025HD

    A dive into the origins of two revolutions: the rapid expansion of Hydro-Québec with the construction of the La Grande hydroelectric power...

    James Bay 1975: The Shock of Two Nations
  • 2022
    People Unite!

    People Unite!

    People Unite!

    02022HD

    In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, People of Color organizers come together to...

    People Unite!
  • 1987
    The River That Harms

    The River That Harms

    The River That Harms

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

    The River That Harms
  • 2011
    The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs

    The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs

    The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs

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    Personal accounts from the Alta actions in the years 1979 to 1981. Large police forces were deployed against the demonstrators. The dispute over the...

    The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs
  • 2023
    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

    02023HD

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

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance
  • 1975
    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims

    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims

    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims

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    "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...

    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims
  • 2026
    Parasisi

    Parasisi

    Parasisi

    02026HD

    On the border of Surinam and French Guyana, indigenous Wayana territory is overrun by intruders. Illegal gold miners poison the river, missionaries...

    Parasisi
  • 1994
    The Drilling Fields

    The Drilling Fields

    The Drilling Fields

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    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...

    The Drilling Fields
  • 2025
    buen vivir – ñutse canseye

    buen vivir – ñutse canseye

    buen vivir – ñutse canseye

    02025HD

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

    buen vivir – ñutse canseye
  • 2015
    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

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    A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as...

    Taking Alcatraz
  • 2009
    The Experimental Eskimos

    The Experimental Eskimos

    The Experimental Eskimos

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

    The Experimental Eskimos
  • 1992
    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

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

    Surviving Columbus
  • 1996
    No Turning Back

    No Turning Back

    No Turning Back

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

    No Turning Back
  • 1974
    Our Land Is Our Life

    Our Land Is Our Life

    Our Land Is Our Life

    01974HD

    In March, 1974, the Cree of the Mistassini area in northern Québec met to discuss their long-term future. After three hundred years of minimal...

    Our Land Is Our Life
  • 2023
    Menina Semente

    Menina Semente

    Menina Semente

    02023HD

    In a polluted city, full of contrasts, a unique seed sprouts: a girl from the indigenous past.

    Menina Semente
  • 2022
    Motherland Memories

    Motherland Memories

    Motherland Memories

    02022HD

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

    Motherland Memories
  • 2020
    Svonni vs Skatteverket

    Svonni vs Skatteverket

    Svonni vs Skatteverket

    4.52020HD

    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...

    Svonni vs Skatteverket