Native American Movies

  • 1946
    Gun Town

    Gun Town

    Gun Town

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    Indian Agent Kip Lewis arrives in Gun Town where Buckskin Sawyer is having her payroll shipments robbed by Indians. Kip and his men are ready the...

    Gun Town
  • 2016
    Who Will Burry The Dead?

    Who Will Burry The Dead?

    Who Will Burry The Dead?

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    This documentary offers a deep, candid, and historical look at the Christian experience of America's largest and best-known tribes: the Dakota and...

    Who Will Burry The Dead?
  • 2019
    Sweetheart Dancers

    Sweetheart Dancers

    Sweetheart Dancers

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    Sean and Adrian, a Two-Spirit couple, are determined to rewrite the rules of Native American culture through their participation in the...

    Sweetheart Dancers
  • 1949
    Apache Chief

    Apache Chief

    Apache Chief

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    When his tribesmen begin killing off white settlers, Young Eagle is opposed to the carnage. In order to assure a lasting peace, however, the chief...

    Apache Chief
  • 1990
    Yuma Crossing

    Yuma Crossing

    Yuma Crossing

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    The story of the Yuma Crossing, the place where centuries of travelers crossed the Colorado River as told in a series of reenacted vignettes by...

    Yuma Crossing
  • 1953
    Old Overland Trail

    Old Overland Trail

    Old Overland Trail

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    Anchor is building a railroad and to get cheap labor he gets Black Hawk's Indians to attack and burn the incoming wagon train. This forces the...

    Old Overland Trail
  • 1989
    Children of Wind River

    Children of Wind River

    Children of Wind River

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    A film made by Victress Hitchcock and Ava Hamilton in 1989 on the Wind River Reservation for Wyoming Public Television.

    Children of Wind River
  • 2013
    Pine Ridge

    Pine Ridge

    Pine Ridge

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    19 year old Bert sits in the shade of a tree in Yo Park. Cassandra Warrior feeds her daughter Diamond Rose. Daniel Runs Close sweats under the sun at...

    Pine Ridge
  • 2012
    Great Falls

    Great Falls

    Great Falls

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    Professional, native and antiquarian researchers combine to investigate the archaeological history and modern legacy of Eastern Native civilization...

    Great Falls
  • 1973
    Prologue to Wounded Knee

    Prologue to Wounded Knee

    Prologue to Wounded Knee

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    An Indian is accused of the rape and murder of a white girl. The girl's stepfather incites the townspeople to punish the Indian - to cover up the...

    Prologue to Wounded Knee
  • 1973
    Brock's Last Case

    Brock's Last Case

    Brock's Last Case

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    A New York City cop who has retired to a small Western town is drawn into the local case of an Indian who is accused of murdering a sheriff.

    Brock's Last Case
  • 1926
    Tragedies of the Osage Hills

    Tragedies of the Osage Hills

    Tragedies of the Osage Hills

    01926HD

    A lost film based on the 'Reign of Terror', a real-life series of several dozen murders committed against the Osage people. 'Tragedies of the Osage...

    Tragedies of the Osage Hills
  • 1983
    The Compass Rose

    The Compass Rose

    The Compass Rose

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

    The Compass Rose
  • 1984
    Harold of Orange

    Harold of Orange

    Harold of Orange

    01984HD

    Tribal trickster Harold Sinseer and his Warriors of Orange make an unusual proposal to the white board members of the Bily Foundation. After having...

    Harold of Orange
  • 2021
    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    02021HD

    What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the enactment of the Indian Child...

    Daughter of a Lost Bird
  • 2018
    Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock

    Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock

    Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock

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    Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of activists, environmentalists, and militarized police...

    Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock
  • 1954
    The Yellow Tomahawk

    The Yellow Tomahawk

    The Yellow Tomahawk

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    When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.

    The Yellow Tomahawk
  • 1975
    Cold Journey

    Cold Journey

    Cold Journey

    01975HD

    In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him...

    Cold Journey
  • 2014
    American Interior

    American Interior

    American Interior

    72014HD

    Two men. Two quests. Two centuries apart. Four ways to experience the search for a lost tribe. Film. Book. Album. App.

    American Interior
  • 2017
    Tribal Justice

    Tribal Justice

    Tribal Justice

    02017HD

    Two formidable Native American women, both chief judges in their tribe's courts, strive to reduce incarceration rates and heal their people by...

    Tribal Justice