For millennia, Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain their traditional land management practices. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the US are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. As the climate crisis escalates these time-tested practices of North America's original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world.

Rez Ball

2024

English

6.4

♡ 24

94%

Sydney Freeland Director

Kiowa Gordon as Antonio Freeman

Nicole Kornet as Chuska Girls Coach

Amber Midthunder as Dezbah Weaver

Jessica Matten as Heather Hobbs

After losing their star player, a high school basketball team rooted in Native American culture must unite to keep their state championship dreams alive.

Birds of Passage

2018

Spanish

7.5

♡ 36

96%

Ciro Guerra Director

David Noreña as Foreman

Víctor Montero as Isidoro

Carmiña Martínez as Úrsula

Natalia Reyes as Zaida

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

The Seventh Fire

2015

English

6.0

♡ 2

92%

Jack Riccobono Director

Robert Duane Brown as Self

Kevin Fineday Jr. as Self

Albino Garcia as Self

When gang leader Rob Brown is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved American Indian community in northern Minnesota. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future: becoming the most powerful and feared Native gangster on the reservation.

Nuked

2023

English

6.3

♡ 4

Andrew Nisker Director

Ian Zabarte as Self

Eldin Alik as Self

Holly M. Barker as Self

Fredrick Aitab as Self (Mr. Executive Councilmember)

The US detonated 67 nuclear weapons over the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Cold War, the consequences of which still reverberate down four generations to today. "NUKED," is a timely new feature documentary focussing on the human victims of the nuclear arms race, tracing the displaced Bikinian's ongoing struggle for justice and survival even as climate change poses a new existential threat. Using carefully restored archival footage to resurrect contemporaneous islanders’ voices and juxtaposing these with the full, awesome fury of the nuclear detonations, NUKED starkly contrasts the official record with the lived experience of the Bikinians themselves, serving as an important counterpoint to this summer’s Oppenheimer.

The Settlers

2023

Spanish

6.9

♡ 31

94%

Felipe Gálvez Haberle Director

Mark Stanley as Alexander MacLennan

Mariano Llinás as Francisco Moreno

Marcelo Alonso as Marcial Vicuña

Luis Machín as Monseñor

The Pearl Button

2015

Spanish

7.6

♡ 3

93%

Patricio Guzmán Director

Patricio Guzmán as Narrator

Martín Calderón as Self

Cristina as Self

Ema Malig as Self

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

1995

English

6.4

♡ 159

23%

human animal relationship

indigenous

kidnapping

slapstick

Steve Oedekerk Director

Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura

Bob Gunton as Burton Quinn

Ken Kirzinger as Helicopter Pilot

G.W. Bailey as Lieutenant

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

Against the Tide

2023

Marathi

6.9

♡ 3

95%

Sarvnik Kaur Director

Rakesh Koli as Self

Ganesh Nakhawa as Self

Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.