Native American Movies

Produced by Jack Schwartz for low-budget company Screen Guild, this mild Western starring the veteran Richard Arlen was apparently the first entry in...

Documentary examines the different paths taken by brothers Edward & Asahel Curtis in their photographs of Northwest Indians and Yukon explorers, as...

Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

At the beginning of the 19th century, white settlers regularly make and break treaties with the Native American inhabitants to gain possession of...

A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappeared years earlier.

A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

In 1970 a storm uncovers an ancient whaling village called Ozette which had been buried some 500 years ago by a massive mudslide. The resulting...

The Great Lakes and connecting waterways have remained the center of traditional and contemporary economies for centuries. Meet the Ojibwe and a...

Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise...

Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of...

Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and...

A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.

1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he...

A young priest is sent to an indigenous village in B.C. Canada, there he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their culture being torn to...

While most teens spend their days in a self-absorbed haze, Simon Jackson was out in the world connecting with anyone who could help him save the...

Linguist Indrek Park has been working with Native American languages for over ten years. The film sees him recording the language of the Mandan...

A short documentary about Americans with Native American and Finnish heritage.

Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His...

In the fall of 1986, six knuckleheads from Detroit travel north to partake in the annual tradition of deer hunting. But something horrific has been...

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