Native American Movies

  • 1970
    Tasunke Witko

    Tasunke Witko

    Tasunke Witko

    01970HD

    Told from the perspective of contemporary Lakota people, the film explores the life of Crazy Horse (Tasunke Witko). Viewers see the natural world of...

    Tasunke Witko
  • 2021
    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    02021HD

    What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the enactment of the Indian Child...

    Daughter of a Lost Bird
  • 2011
    Skydancer

    Skydancer

    Skydancer

    02011HD

    For more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called 'sky walkers' because they walk fearlessly...

    Skydancer
  • 1975
    Blood Brothers

    Blood Brothers

    Blood Brothers

    5.51975HD

    In 1864, American soldiers massacre a Cheyenne village at Sand Creek. Disgusted by the massacre, Harmonika, one of the soldiers, deserts the army and...

    Blood Brothers
  • 2022
    The Life and Legacy of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte

    The Life and Legacy of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte

    The Life and Legacy of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte

    02022HD

    This short documentary tells the story of the life and legacy of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, an Omaha woman who became the first Native American...

    The Life and Legacy of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
  • 2006
    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You

    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You

    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You

    02006HD

    The collaboration between the Tanacross and Northway, Alaska communities and trained linguistic specialists from the Alaska Native Language Center to...

    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You
  • 2014
    Where God Likes to Be

    Where God Likes to Be

    Where God Likes to Be

    72014HD

    Where God Likes to Be focuses on three young protagonists full of hope and promise - Andi Running Wolf, Edward Tailfeathers, and Douglas Fitzgerald -...

    Where God Likes to Be
  • 2017
    Dislocation Blues

    Dislocation Blues

    Dislocation Blues

    5.82017HD

    Filmed during the 2016 Standing Rock protests in South Dakota, Sky Hopinka's Dislocation Blues offers a portrait of the movement and its water...

    Dislocation Blues
  • 1990
    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

    01990HD

    Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nation. During the time of the American Revolution,...

    Divided Loyalties
  • 2016
    The Water Gap: Return to the Homeland

    The Water Gap: Return to the Homeland

    The Water Gap: Return to the Homeland

    02016HD

    Three Lenape tribes send their youth to the Delaware Water Gap region to reconnect with their ancestral homelands.

    The Water Gap: Return to the Homeland
  • 1970
    The Trial of Standing Bear

    The Trial of Standing Bear

    The Trial of Standing Bear

    01970HD

    Examines the 1879 court case of Standing Bear vs. Crook and the struggle for basic Native American rights.

    The Trial of Standing Bear
  • 2005
    Taínos: la última tribu

    Taínos: la última tribu

    Taínos: la última tribu

    3.52005HD

    Sara, a young archaeology student, organizes an expedition to La Mora Cave. Guided by Yabey, Sara and her four friends, discover a hidden...

    Taínos: la última tribu
  • 2017
    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

    72017HD

    The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and...

    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
  • 2019
    Crossers

    Crossers

    Crossers

    02019HD

    Two roommates disagree about watching a ghost hunting reality show that filmed on their reservation.

    Crossers
  • 1922
    The Paleface

    The Paleface

    The Paleface

    6.121922HD

    A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man...

    The Paleface
  • 1995
    Ship of Fools

    Ship of Fools

    Ship of Fools

    6.51995HD

    In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts...

    Ship of Fools
  • 2020
    Halpate

    Halpate

    Halpate

    02020HD

    Considered a staple of Florida tourism, alligator wrestling has been performed by members of the Seminole Tribe for over a century. As the practice...

    Halpate
  • 2019
    Blood Memory

    Blood Memory

    Blood Memory

    02019HD

    This documentary reveals the untold history of America's Indian Adoption Era, a time when Native children were stolen from their families and forced...

    Blood Memory
  • 1976
    Angry Joe Bass

    Angry Joe Bass

    Angry Joe Bass

    01976HD

    A Native American fisherman has his fishing grounds taken away by bureaucratic officials. Joe Bass goes nuts and wreaks havoc across the Michigan...

    Angry Joe Bass
  • 1975
    Search for the Gods

    Search for the Gods

    Search for the Gods

    4.31975HD

    A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.

    Search for the Gods