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Native, Indigenous & Aboriginal Cinema

A list of narrative films and documentaries that either profile or revolve around a Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal person and/or a specific community.

I have to add that there has been an uptick in Native/Indigenous storytelling on U.S. television, so I recommend checking the following series too:

The Red Road (2014 - 2015)
Native America (2018)
Chambers (2019)
Reservation Dogs (2021 - 2023)
Rutherford Falls (2021 - 2022)
Dark Winds (2022 - present)
North of North (2025 - present)

There is a preference for films/series that are made by filmmakers within their own community, although there are some made by outsiders as well.

  • Sioux Ghost Dance
  • Buffalo Dance
  • In the Land of the Head Hunters
  • Buffalo Bill and Chief Iron Tail Swap Yarns in the Sign Language
  • The Daughter of Dawn
  • Nanook of the North
  • The Exiles
  • Dance Me Outside
  • Smoke Signals
  • Skins
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence
  • Whale Rider
  • Trudell
  • Four Sheets to the Wind
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Qallunaat!
  • American Outrage
  • Frozen River
  • The Lost Spirits
  • Reel Injun
  • Boy
  • American Mystic
  • Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
  • A Good Day to Die
  • The Dome of Heaven
  • Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
  • The Sapphires
  • The Lesser Blessed
  • Winter in the Blood
  • Pine Ridge
  • Rhymes for Young Ghouls
  • Crazywater
  • Horse Tribe
  • Ixcanul
  • Songs My Brothers Taught Me
  • The Seventh Fire
  • Mekko
  • Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses
  • Tanna
  • Fire Song
  • The Saver
  • A World Unseen: 'The Revenant'
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  • What Was Ours
  • Sami Blood
  • this river
  • Badger Creek
  • The Watchman's Canoe
  • Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
  • Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
  • Bee Nation
  • Birth of a Family
  • The Rider
  • On a Knife Edge
  • Woman Walks Ahead
  • Indian Horse
  • After the Apology
  • Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier
  • Land
  • Risking Light
  • Moroni for President
  • Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
  • Alone on the Island of the Blue Dolphins
  • Falls Around Her
  • Through Black Spruce
  • Witness of Another World
  • The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
  • Predator on the Reservation
  • Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
  • There Are No Fakes
  • Blackwater
  • Blood Quantum
  • There's Something in the Water
  • Necessity: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance
  • Cinema Red: Natives & Horror
  • Somebody's Daughter
  • Little Chief
  • For Walter and Josiah
  • Stories I Didn't Know
  • Gather
  • Highway of Tears
  • Beans
  • The Song That Calls You Home
  • Wild Indian
  • Night Raiders
  • Cousins
  • Say Her Name
  • Catch the Fair One
  • Pure Grit
  • The Great Basin
  • Home from School: The Children of Carlisle
  • Oyate
  • The Unknown Country
  • Women of the White Buffalo
  • War Pony
  • Lakota Nation vs. United States
  • Prey
  • Fancy Dance
  • Sorcery
  • Bad Press