Rocks at Whiskey Trench

2000

English

7.4

Documentary

indigenous

native american

native american reservation

woman director

Alanis Obomsawin Director

Guy Nadon as King Louis XIV

Alanis Obomsawin as Narrated by

The fourth film in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Oka crisis uses a single, shameful incident as a lens through which to examine the region's long history of prejudice and injustice against the Mohawk population.

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

8.3

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Director

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidemic. Witness the change brought by community members with substance-use disorder, first responders and medical professionals as they strive for harm reduction in the Kainai First Nation.

Bootlegger

2021

French

5.7

♡ 2

coming home

Drama

indigenous

Caroline Monnet Director

Charles Bender as Éric

Pascale Bussières as Laura

Devery Jacobs as Mani

Joséphine Bacon as Nora

Mani, a master’s student, returns to the reserve in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of alcohol on the reserve. Laura, a bootlegger, pockets the profits she makes there under the protection of the band council and her partner Raymond. The latter is still angry with Mani, whom he holds responsible for the death of his daughter in a fire. Opposing forces quickly divide the community into two sides who face each other to determine the best path to independence.

El Norte

1983

Spanish

7.7

♡ 4

92%

Gregory Nava Director

Mike Gomez as Informer

Alicia del Lago as Lupe

Lupe Ontiveros as Nacha

Jorge Moreno as Old Man on Bus

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.

Trick or Treaty?

6.5

Alanis Obomsawin Director

Alanis Obomsawin as Narration

Tony Robinow as (voice)

Marc-André Brunet as (voice)

Alain Goulem as (voice) (as Al Goulem)

Legendary Canadian documentarian Alanis Obomsawin digs into the tangled history of Treaty 9 — the infamous 1905 agreement wherein First Nations communities relinquished sovereignty over their traditional territories — to reveal the deceptions and distortions which the document has been subjected to by successive governments seeking to deprive Canada’s First Peoples of their lands.

Bones of Crows

2022

English

6.8

♡ 4

95%

roman catholic church

world war ii

Marie Clements Director

Glen Gould as Matthew Spears

Cara Gee as Percy Whallach

Karine Vanasse as Sister Ruth

Alanis Obomsawin as TRC Film Director

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

For Love

2022

English

8.3

♡ 2

Matthew Smiley Director

Shania Twain as Self - Narrator

In this searing documentary, Indigenous people share heartbreaking stories that reveal the injustices inflicted by the Canadian child welfare system.

Moana

1926

English

6.8

♡ 4

87%

Robert J. Flaherty Director

Ta'avale as Moana Tama

Tama as Moana's Father

Fa'amgase as Moana's Fiancé

T'ugaita as Moana's Mother

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized “Gauguin idyll,” the film celebrates daily rituals, communal traditions, and the passage into adulthood, suffused with what Flaherty called “pride of beauty, pride of strength.”

Lakota Nation vs. United States

2022

English

7.8

100%

native american reservation

Jesse Short Bull Director

Bill Horn Cloud as (archive footage)

Edward Lazarus as Self - Author, Black Hills / White Justice

Craig Howe as Self - Oglala Lakota

Alex Romero-Frederick as Self - Oglala Lakota

Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to the promise of the Land Back movement, in this lyrical testament to resilience of a nation.

Portraits from a Fire

2021

English

6.5

♡ 3

Trevor Mack Director

Asivak Koostachin as Aaron

Kelly William as Firefighter #1

Nathaniel Arcand as Gord

Pauline Bob-King as Trish

An Indigenous teenage boy fights through distorting realities as a family secret unravels.

1492: Conquest of Paradise

1992

English

6.4

♡ 47

30%

Ridley Scott Director

Arnold Vosloo as Guevara

Fernando Rey as Marchena

Tchéky Karyo as Pinzon

Sigourney Weaver as Queen Isabel

1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.

When Two Worlds Collide

2016

Spanish

7.6

91%

Heidi Brandenburg Director

George W. Bush as Self

Miguel Montenegro as Self - Commander

Mercedes Cabanillas as Self - Former Minister of the Interior

Javier Velásquez Quesquen as Self - President of Congress

In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, whose impassioned speeches against Garcia’s destructive actions prove a powerful rallying cry to throngs of his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.

This Place

2022

English

5.4

100%

Drama

first love

indigenous

interracial relationship

interracial romance

mohawk

multiculturalism

V.T. Nayani Director

Mecha Clarke as Chanel

Devery Jacobs as Kawenniióhstha

Abi Jeyaratnam as Malathi

Golshan Abdmoulaie as Shahin

Living in the liminal space between worlds, two young women find themselves falling in love for the first time, while also being forced to unexpectedly confront their families, each complicated by legacies of love and loss.

Rapa Nui

1994

English

6.4

♡ 15

62%

Kevin Reynolds Director

Anzac Wallace as Haoa

Esai Morales as Make

Sandrine Holt as Ramana

Cliff Curtis as Short Ears

Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.

King Kong

1976

English

6.0

♡ 44

55%

manhattan, new york city

remake

Romance

world trade center

John Guillermin Director

Garry Walberg as Army General

John Agar as City Official

Forrest J. Ackerman as Fleeing Extra in Crowd

Jeff Bridges as Jack Prescott

An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.

The Unknown Country

2022

English

6.3

♡ 17

92%

Morrisa Maltz Director

Frank Mosley as Friend at Bar

Richard Ray Whitman as Grandpa August

Raymond Lee as Isaac

Lily Gladstone as Tana

A grieving woman embarks on an unexpected road trip as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss and seeks to understand her place in the world.

Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country

2019

English

7.6

♡ 2

Michael Loukinen Director Al Reko

Al Reko as Al Reko

Art Moilanen as Art Moilanen

Jim Leary as Jim Leary

Oren Tikkanen as Oren Tikkanen

When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their musical traditions with many other cultures, creating a sound that was unique to the "Copper Country."

Embrace of the Serpent

2015

Spanish

7.8

♡ 38

97%

inspired by real stories

oscar nominated

religious fanaticism

Ciro Guerra Director

Brionne Davis as Evan

Antonio Bolivar as Old Karamakate

Jan Bijvoet as Theo

Nilbio Torres as Young Karamakate

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

2024

English

6.6

♡ 94

51%

Kevin Costner Director

James Landry Hébert as Flagg

Kevin Costner as Hayes Ellison

Michael Rooker as Sgt. Major Thomas Riordan

Sam Worthington as Trent Gephart

In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy finds himself on the run with a prostitute and a young boy after killing a fellow gunman.