Indigenous Sovereignty Movies
- 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)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...
- 1970
Rematriation
Rematriation101970HD
Rematriation explores scientific, cultural, economic and sociopolitical perspectives, as citizens fight to protect the last big trees in British...
- 2022
Stonebreakers
Stonebreakers72022HD
In a year of uprisings and political unrest, Stonebreakers documents the fights around monuments in the United States and explores the shifting...
- 2023
Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred
Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred02023HD
In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate...
- 1992
Surviving Columbus
Surviving Columbus01992HD
This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.
- 1975
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance01975HD
Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the...
- 1970
ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek
ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek01970HD
A film initially was released alongside an injunction granted from the BC court to Teal Jones, enabling them to forcibly remove forest protectors who...
- 2009
Aniceto, razón de Estado
Aniceto, razón de Estado02009HD
In the Araucanía Region, an area marked by historical relations between Mapuche and non-Mapuche people, the shooting of a police officer...
- 1969
Louis Riel
Louis Riel01969HD
Opera by Harry Somers portraying Metis leader Louis Riel and his Northwest Rebellion.
- 2021
Fairy Creek: The Last Stand
Fairy Creek: The Last Stand02021HD
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...
- 1970
Fairy Creek Blockade - As I See It
Fairy Creek Blockade - As I See It01970HD
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...
- 2021
Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy
Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy02021HD
For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones...
- 2014
Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!
Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!02014HD
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...
- 2019
Invasion
Invasion102019HD
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...
- 1970
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...
- 2015
RESIST: The Unist'ot'en's Call To The Land
RESIST: The Unist'ot'en's Call To The Land82015HD
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...
- 2016
Promised Land
Promised Land02016HD
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...