Indigenous Sovereignty Movies

  • 1992
    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

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    This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.

    Surviving Columbus
  • 1975
    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

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    Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the...

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
  • 2023
    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred

    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred

    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred

    02023HD

    In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate...

    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred
  • 2021
    Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest (and the Secrets it Holds)

    Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest (and the Secrets it Holds)

    Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest (and the Secrets it Holds)

    02021HD

    The ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest are home to giant trees and many secrets, which science is just beginning to understand. But these...

    Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest (and the Secrets it Holds)
  • 2019
    Invasion

    Invasion

    Invasion

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    In this era of "reconciliation", Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist'ot'en Camp, Gidimt'en...

    Invasion
  • 2009
    Aniceto, razón de Estado

    Aniceto, razón de Estado

    Aniceto, razón de Estado

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    In the Araucanía Region, an area marked by historical relations between Mapuche and non-Mapuche people, the shooting of a police officer...

    Aniceto, razón de Estado
  • 2022
    Stonebreakers

    Stonebreakers

    Stonebreakers

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    In a year of uprisings and political unrest, Stonebreakers documents the fights around monuments in the United States and explores the shifting...

    Stonebreakers
  • 2015
    RESIST: The Unist'ot'en's Call To The Land

    RESIST: The Unist'ot'en's Call To The Land

    RESIST: The Unist'ot'en's Call To The Land

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    RESIST; The Unist'oten's Call to the Land is a short documentary that was filmed in the summer of 2013 on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory, 1000 km...

    RESIST: The Unist'ot'en's Call To The Land
  • 1970
    Fairy Creek Blockade - As I See It

    Fairy Creek Blockade - As I See It

    Fairy Creek Blockade - As I See It

    01970HD

    Mainland reporter hears about protest on Vancouver Island and decides to visit and see it for himself. He spends time to meet people there from both...

    Fairy Creek Blockade - As I See It
  • 1970
    Rematriation

    Rematriation

    Rematriation

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    Rematriation explores scientific, cultural, economic and sociopolitical perspectives, as citizens fight to protect the last big trees in British...

    Rematriation
  • 1970
    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!

    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!

    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!

    01970HD

    "A short documentary amplifying what I witnessed this past long weekend. I hope this film helps spread the word about the importance of the Fairy...

    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!
  • 1970
    ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek

    ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek

    ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek

    01970HD

    A film initially was released alongside an injunction granted from the BC court to Teal Jones, enabling them to forcibly remove forest protectors who...

    ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek
  • 2021
    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    02021HD

    For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones...

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy
  • 2014
    Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!

    Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!

    Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!

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    October 2013 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police descended on a peaceful anti-fracking protest led by the Mi'kmaq of Elsipogtog and their allies. In...

    Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!
  • 2021
    Fairy Creek: The Last Stand

    Fairy Creek: The Last Stand

    Fairy Creek: The Last Stand

    02021HD

    In less than 150 years, 97.3% of British Columbia's old growth forests have been logged. These ancient trees and their ecosystems have been lost...

    Fairy Creek: The Last Stand
  • 1969
    Louis Riel

    Louis Riel

    Louis Riel

    01969HD

    Opera by Harry Somers portraying Metis leader Louis Riel and his Northwest Rebellion.

    Louis Riel
  • 2016
    Promised Land

    Promised Land

    Promised Land

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    Promised Land is a social justice documentary that follows two tribes in the Pacific Northwest: the Duwamish and the Chinook, as they fight for the...

    Promised Land