Movies and Shows about Indigenous Peoples
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- DirectorAmanda KernellStarsMaj-Doris RimpiOlle SarriÁnne Biret SombyA reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
- CreatorSterlin HarjoTaika WaititiStarsD'Pharaoh Woon-A-TaiDevery JacobsPaulina AlexisComedy series about four Native American teenagers growing up on a reservation in eastern Oklahoma.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioRobert De NiroLily GladstoneWhen oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
- CreatorGraham RolandStarsZahn McClarnonKiowa GordonJessica MattenFollows Leaphorn and Chee, two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest that are forced to challenge their own spiritual beliefs when they search for clues in a double murder case.
- DirectorNils GaupStarsMikkel GaupIngvald GuttormNils UtsiA young Sámi man witnesses a band of vicious raiders slay his family and flees to a nearby village, where he learns he must become a Pathfinder.
- DirectorNils GaupStarsMikkel GaupAnni-Kristiina JuusoAslat Mahtte GaupReligious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
- DirectorLars-Göran PetterssonStarsSverre PorsangerIssath Juakim GaupJussi Joakim GaupAt school they used to call him Bázo, a Sami expression for a slightly retarded person. In his village they still use the name behind his back. In a way it is true. Emil is not the smartest person in the little mountain village where he lives with his father. he never even learned how to read or write properly. His brother, Kenneth, was different. He bought himself an excavator, worked in both Finland and Norway, made a lot of money, and used to ocome on visits with different girlfriends in his shiny Mercedes. One day Emil and his father receive a letter; Kenneth is dead. He has been in an accident with the excavator. Emil goes to Norway looking for whatever may be left of his brother's belongings. The Mercedes is gone. It turns out that all Emil has inherited is an almost new shotgun, a seven-year-old boy, Kenneth's former girlfriend, and his shady business dealings. Together Emil and the boy, Kevin, start looking for the Mercedes, unaware of his dead brother's powerful enemise. It turns out that Kenneth was most likely killed...
- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsSam NeillJulian DennisonRima Te WiataA national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsEverlyn SampiTianna SansburyKenneth BranaghIn 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
- DirectorMaya NewellStarsCarol TurnerDujuan TurnerMegan TurnerAn intimate and compassionate observational documentary from the perspective of a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy in Alice Springs, Australia, struggling to balance his traditional Arrernte/Garrwa upbringing with a state education.