Selected nonfiction movies and TV shows about indigenous people.
Movie | Year | Rating |
Navajo Squaw Weaving Blankets | 1903 | |
Nanook of the North | 1922 | x.x |
The Silent Enemy | 1930 | |
The Exiles | 1961 | 9.0 |
Broken Rainbow | 1985 | |
Incident at Oglala | 1992 | 7.0 |
The Native Americans [TV] | 1994 | x.x |
500 Nations [TV] | 1995 | x.x |
Lost Civilizations [TV] | 1995 | |
The Mystery of the Maya | 1996 | |
The West [TV] | 1996 | |
A Place Called Chiapas | 1998 | |
In Whose Honor? | 2000 | |
Alcatraz Is Not an Island [TV] | 2002 | x.x |
True Whispers [TV] | 2002 | |
Little Bighorn Remembered [TV] | 2003 | 7.0 |
Cowboys and Indians: The Killing of J.J. Harper | 2004 | |
If the Weather Permits | 2004 | |
Conquest of America | 2005 | |
Eagle Blue | 2006 | |
The Tailenders [TV] | 2006 | 6.5 |
The Canary Effect | 2006 | |
Waterbuster | 2006 | 8.0 |
Indian Pride [TV] | 2007 | 6.5 |
Pocahontas Revealed [TV] | 2007 | x.x |
Standing Silent Nation [TV] | 2007 | |
Arctic Son [TV] | 2007 | |
Miss Navajo | 2007 | |
Way of the Warrior [TV] | 2007 | |
Maria Tallchief [TV] | 2007 | |
Water Flowing Together | 2007 | |
Weaving Worlds | 2007 | |
Doomsday 2012 [TV] | 2008 | 6.0 |
Our Spirits Don't Speak English | 2008 | 8.0 |
Native Nations: Standing Together [TV] | 2008 | 7.5 |
March Point | 2008 |
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Native documentaries
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A roundup of links on Native documentaries and videos, filmmakers who make such films, and film festivals and websites that feature them.
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A roundup of links on Native documentaries and news reports that first appeared on TV. Includes broadcast and Internet-based TV.
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