Native American Movies

Released on the 19th of February, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

First hand interviews and on the ground footage give a stirring account of The Standing Rock Sioux Nation's and water protectors' opposition to the...

In this western, the Indians claim that their government rations are being stolen and they threaten to fight back. A pair of agents look into it and...

A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on...

For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...

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...

Written and hosted by Jack Marks, an American Jewish author who misrepresented himself as Native American; this PBS documentary examines the...

Navajo Film Themselves is a series of seven short documentaries: Intrepid Shadows (1966), The Navajo Silversmith (1966), A Navajo Weaver (1966), Old...

"The First People Taking Care of the Fishery" are the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians, the largest indigenous tribe east of the Mississippi. For...

This documentary is the story of Adrian Esposito's journey to find healing for his anger and autism by traveling across America and Canada and...

Overview of the Navajo people and the relationship to their land in Northern Arizona.

Queho, a Native American serial killer with a checkered past, takes out the people of a struggling mining town in the stark deserts of Nevada one by...

Examines the 1879 court case of Standing Bear vs. Crook and the struggle for basic Native American rights.

Four interlinking stories about a benign native american legend that has been distorted throughout the years into something much darker.

From totem poles to language revitalization and traditional agriculture, host Chris Eyre (Cheyenne Arapaho) discovers the resilience of the Coast...

Two roommates disagree about watching a ghost hunting reality show that filmed on their reservation.

Lakota people from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota describe the ongoing struggle of their people.

In this first entry in MGM's Happy Harmonies series, an old man tells a newsboy about his adventures with Native Americans in the Old West.

A psychiatrist tries to save a young female patient whose psychoses might hold the key to ending an ancient evil.

Racing the Rez reveals the transformative potential of cross-country running at the team level. The story follows two rival high school teams...