Indigenous Women Movies

  • 2024
    Fancy Dance

    Fancy Dance

    Fancy Dance

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    Following her sister's disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what's left of their family intact, Jax and Roki d...

    Fancy Dance
  • 1992
    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    01992HD

    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
  • 2017
    Ohero:kon - Under the Husk

    Ohero:kon - Under the Husk

    Ohero:kon - Under the Husk

    62017HD

    This documentary follows two Mohawk girls on their journey to become Mohawk women. Friends since childhood, Kaienkwinehtha and Kasennakohe are members...

    Ohero:kon - Under the Husk
  • 1986
    Mistress Madeleine

    Mistress Madeleine

    Mistress Madeleine

    01986HD

    Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the f...

    Mistress Madeleine
  • 2023
    Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun

    Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun

    Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun

    02023HD

    An intimate and thrilling portrait of a young Siksika woman and the deep bonds between her father and family in the golden plains of Blackfoot Territo...

    Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun
  • 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 interwe...

    Motherland Memories
  • 2017
    Las mujeres deciden

    Las mujeres deciden

    Las mujeres deciden

    102017HD

    Maria, a young Spanish doctor, works in a maternity hospital in the Ecuadorian rain forest. She is shocked about the premature pregnancies and the vio...

    Las mujeres deciden
  • 2024
    Waira

    Waira

    Waira

    02024HD

    In an isolated community, a young indigenous woman fights for her freedom after enduring sexual assaults. Confronted with a life-altering decision, sh...

    Waira
  • 2022
    Cosmovisions

    Cosmovisions

    Cosmovisions

    02022HD

    In Southern Bahia, seven indigenous women invite to reflection, sharing their mythology, ancestry and paths to living well.

    Cosmovisions
  • 2023
    Gabriela

    Gabriela

    Gabriela

    02023HD

    A young undocumented Guatemalan woman dreams of joining a Country Club swim team in the American South.

    Gabriela
  • 2006
    Stealing Mary: Last of the Red Indians

    Stealing Mary: Last of the Red Indians

    Stealing Mary: Last of the Red Indians

    02006HD

    Two human skulls in a Scottish museum spark a forensic investigation into the tragic disappearance of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland. The clues he...

    Stealing Mary: Last of the Red Indians
  • 2021
    Fuego

    Fuego

    Fuego

    82021HD

    Xóchitl is an indigenous woman who must fight for her freedom before the birth of her baby, since she finds herself trapped in an abusive relationship...

    Fuego
  • 2006
    Finding Dawn

    Finding Dawn

    Finding Dawn

    02006HD

    Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh presents a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and disappearanc...

    Finding Dawn
  • 2020
    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe

    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe

    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe

    02020HD

    "Without a Whisper" is the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the early suffragists in their fight for freedom and equality. Mohawk Clan...

    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe
  • 2023
    The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy

    The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy

    The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy

    02023HD

    Filmmaker Mary Galloway's feature documentary looks at the origins and continued impact of the famed Cowichan sweater.

    The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy
  • 1991
    Women in the Shadows

    Women in the Shadows

    Women in the Shadows

    01991HD

    Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces the filmmaker's quest for her Native foremothers i...

    Women in the Shadows
  • 2014
    The Letter

    The Letter

    The Letter

    42014HD

    A young woman returns to her rural Mexican village after a few years away to find out if her first love can be revived.

    The Letter
  • 2000
    The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters

    The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters

    The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters

    02000HD

    For almost a century, the Coast Salish knitters of southern Vancouver Island have produced Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. These distinctive swe...

    The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters
  • 2020
    Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible

    Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible

    Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible

    12020HD

    As the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic affects tribal communities, a group of Blackfeet women tackle the threat head-on by...

    Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible
  • 2014
    The Candy Meister

    The Candy Meister

    The Candy Meister

    02014HD

    Four close friends have entered a radio contest to determine who can stay at the most spooky haunted location overnight. The group of 4 take a sweet c...

    The Candy Meister