Indigenous Rights Movies
- 1984
Where the Green Ants Dream
Where the Green Ants Dream6.91984HD
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbe...
- 2022
Motherland Memories
Motherland Memories02022HD
Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that interwe...
- 2019
Trouble In The Garden
Trouble In The Garden82019HD
A jailed activist is bailed out by her brother, who happens to be involved with the very land development she was protesting.
- 2017
Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film02017HD
The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put land art...
- 1992
Surviving Columbus
Surviving Columbus01992HD
This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.
- 2024
The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims
The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims02024HD
"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...
- 2023
Here Where It All Ends
Here Where It All Ends02023HD
"Here Where It All Ends" is an experimental, poetic short film that moves between documentary and fiction to address an endangered culture, that of in...
- 1993
Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance
Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance7.31993HD
In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic confront...
- 2020
The Last Ice
The Last Ice8.62020HD
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 and...
- 2024
Mauri
Mauri02024HD
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...
- 1974
Our Land Is Our Life
Our Land Is Our Life01974HD
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 contact...
- 2022
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 organize...
- 2015
Taking Alcatraz
Taking Alcatraz02015HD
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 tol...
- 1971
As Long as the Rivers Run
As Long as the Rivers Run01971HD
Examines the violence and civil disobedience leading up to the hallmark decision in U.S. v. Washington, with particular reference to the Nisqually Ind...
- 2023
Xondaros - Guarani Resistance
Xondaros - Guarani Resistance02023HD
The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the prox...
- 2020
Invasion
Invasion8.32020HD
In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en...
- 2024
First Warrior
First Warrior02024HD
Australia was colonized in the late 1700s. Pemulwuy, a man of the Bidjigal tribes — from the region that is today modern-day Sydney — led a 12-year re...
- 2020
Svonni vs the Swedish Tax Agency
Svonni vs the Swedish Tax Agency4.52020HD
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 dog's use...
- 2024
The Bears on Pine Ridge
The Bears on Pine Ridge02024HD
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has declared a “State of Emergency”, after an outbreak of youth suicides has devastated the community. Due to a lack...
- 2014
The Burden of Being
The Burden of Being02014HD
In the year 2061, where only one utilitarian race -- known as 'The Nation' -- is recognized, a Native American man is imprisoned for speaking his anci...