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Indigenous Films

West Vancouver Memorial Library

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  • A riveting documentary detailing the case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, a Native American woman who disappeared in 2020. Her story exposes how Indigenous women continue to go missing in the USA, perpetuating trans-generational trauma on reservations.
    DVD, 2024United States : FilmRise, [2024] — DVD DOC MIS
  • In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
    DVD, 2023Arlington, VA : PBS, 2023 — DVD TV LIT
  • Sherente, a Two Spirit Genderqueer teenager from Rhode Island's Narragansett tribe performs traditional dance in competitions at annual pow wows in New England. There is no formal rule which prohibits Two Spirit Genderqueer people from performing in…
    DVD, 2023[New York, NY] : Film Movement, [2023] — DVD DOC BEI
  • On the news of her grandmother's passing, Tana (Lily Gladstone) packed the car and left Minneapolis on a sojourn down to the Texas-Mexico border, looking to reconnect with her Oglala Lakota relatives as well as her roots, finding closure, and making…
    DVD, 2023Chicago, IL : Music Box Films, 2023. — DVD DRAMA UNK
  • Rumble

    the Indians Who Rocked the World

    This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley…
    DVD, 2017New York : Kino Lorber, [2017] — DVD DOC RUM
  • In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When…
    DVD, 2023New York : Kino Lorber, [2023] — SPANISH DVD UTA
  • Told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch Aline Spears as she 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…
    DVD, 2023[Canada] : Elevation Pictures, [2023] — DVD DRAMA BON
  • The Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana is shaken to its core by a teen suicide epidemic that claims 22 Native lives in a single year including two high school basketball team members. 'For Walter And Josiah' follows the team during their season…
    DVD, 2023[United States] : Buffalo 8, [2023] — DVD DOC FOR
  • A rebellious two-spirit teenager runs away from home to find his birth mother and reclaim his Mi'kmaw heritage.
    DVD, 2022Toronto : Mongrel, [2022] — DVD DRAMA WIL
  • In 1990, two Mohawk communities enter into a 78-day armed standoff with government forces to protect a burial ground from developers.
    DVD, 2021Toronto : Mongrel Media, 2021. — DVD DRAMA BEA
  • Tells the story of Dylan, a First Nations soldier from Canada who is caught in an ambush in Afghanistan. He is interrogated by a Taliban Commander until he makes his daring escape. Now he must run for his life from his captors across treacherous…
    DVD, 2021[Universal City, California] : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, [2021] — DVD DRAMA RED
  • Inhabitants

    Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World

    Follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization…
    DVD, 2021[Los Angeles, Calif.] : Good Docs, [2021] — DVD DOC INH
  • Two childhood friends from the same Quebec Innu community begin to realize that they face very different futures.
    DVD, 2020Montreal, QC : TVA Films, [2020] — FRENCH DVD KUE
  • The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
    DVD, 2020[Canada] : Elevation Pictures, [2020] — DVD DRAMA BLO
  • In this inspiring true story, a group of Inuit students in a small, struggling Arctic community is changed forever through the transformative power of sport.
    DVD, 2019Toronto : Mongrel, [2019] — DVD DRAMA GRI
  • An adaptation of Richard Wagamese's award winning novel, this moving and important drama sheds light on the dark history of Canada's Residential Schools and the indomitable spirit of Indigenous people.
    DVD, 2018[Canada] : Elevation Pictures, [2018] — DVD DRAMA IND
  • An Inuk filmmaker takes a close look at the central role of seal hunting in the lives of the Inuit, the importance of the revenue they earn from sales of seal skins, and the negative impact that international campaigns against the seal hunt have had…
    DVD, 2017[Montreal, Quebec] : National Film Board of Canada, [2017] — DVD DOC ANG
  • As young children, Lyna and Glen were taken from their homes and placed in church-run boarding schools. The trauma of this experience was made worse by years of untold physical, sexual and emotional abuse, the effects of which persist in their adult…
    DVD, 2012[Montreal, Quebec] : National Film Board of Canada, [2012] — DVD DOC WEW
  • A retelling of an Inuit legend of love, jealousy, murder and revenge in the Igoolik brothers Atanarjuat and Amaqjuaq.
    DVD, 2002Montréal, Québec : distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Atlantis, 2002, c2000. — INUKTITUT DVD ATA
  • The Art of Being Métis

    Through the Teachings of the Canoe

    This documentary film follows Mahigan through all the facets of creating a traditional birch bark canoe. Much more than a how-to film, the viewer will be taken on a spiritual journey that contemplates the very close relationship the people of the…
    DVD, 2016[Ontario, Canada] : Reality Media, [2016] — DVD DOC ART