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An action-adventure comedy that follows the adventures of feisty and resourceful ten-year-old Molly Mabray, an Alaska Native girl, her dog Suki, and friends Tooey and Trini on their adventures in epically beautiful Alaska.
Rating: TV-Y Year: 2020
Language: English Language Note: In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video. |
Dark Winds The year is 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee. Chee, too, has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other, and their demons on the path to salvation.
Rating: Not Rated Year: 2022 - 2025
Language: English Language Note: English dialogue, Spanish subtitles; English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
Elizabeth Danvers and Evangeline Navarro, former partners, join forces to investigate the mysterious disappearance of eight scientists from the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in the fictional town of Ennis, Alaska. The story unfolds during the months-long winter nights, and as the two protagonists confront their own personal struggles, they delve into the eerie secrets hidden beneath the eternal ice to solve the complex case. The narrative explores the challenges of overcoming differences and facing the darkness within oneself.
Rating: TV-MA Year: 2024
Language: English Language Note: English dialogue; English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
Beans Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990. Rating: Not Rated Year: 2020
Language: English Language Note: English dialogue; English subtitles. |
Prey DVD or hooplaThe epic Predator legacy continues with this action-thriller set in the Comanche Nation. When Naru, a fierce and highly skilled young warrior, sets out to protect her people, the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator leading to a vicious and terrifying showdown. Rating: R Year: 2022
Language: English Language Note: English, French, Spanish or Comanche dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles. |
La Llorona DVD or hooplaA country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efran̕ Ro̕s Montt for crimes against humanity. Spoken in Spanish, IXIL, and Kaqchikel with English subtitles. Rating: Not Rated Year: 2019
Language: Spanish, IXIL, and Kaqchikel with English subtitles Language Note: In Spanish with subtitles in English = En español con subtÃtulos en ingles. |
The Grizzlies is based on the inspiring true story of a group of Inuit students in a small Arctic town that had one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world, due to a history of residential schools and intergenerational trauma. The classmates are initially resistant when the naive and culturally ignorant white teacher from the south introduces them to lacrosse--but gradually, as they begin to connect with each other as teammates, the students find inspiration to make profound shifts in their lives. Together, as The Grizzlies, the players learn to lead each other, gain the support of a deeply divided town, and look to compete in the National Lacrosse Championships. Rating: R Year: 2018
Language: English Language Note: In English and Inuktitut with English subtitles; open captioned in English. |
The Lesser Blessed Based on the celebrated novel by Richard Van Camp, The Lesser Blessed is an eye-opening depiction of what it is like to be a vulnerable teenager in today's modern world. Through the eyes of Larry Sole, a First Nation teenager filled with bravado and angst, fragile and yet angry, seeking clarity clouded by confusion, seeking to belong without belonging, comes the story of three unlikely friends isolated in a small rural town discovering what they can of life and love amid racial tensions and the recklessness of youth, in a world clouded by a dark mystery from his past.
Rating: R Year: 2012
Language: English Language Note: Closed-captioned. |
This HBO original centers on Charles Eastman Beach, a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor; Sitting Bull, the Lakota chief who refuses to submit to the U.S. government's Indian policy; and Senator Henry Dawes, one of the men responsible for the policy.
Rating: TV-14 Year: 2007
Language: English Language Note: English or Spanish dialogue; English, Spanish or French subtitles; closed-captioned. |
Rhymes for Young Ghouls Red Crow Mi'gMaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna's. That means being at the mercy of "Popper", the sadistic Indian agent who runs the school. At 15, Aila is the weed princess of Red Crow. Hustling with her uncle Burner, she sells enough dope to pay Popper her "truancy tax", keeping her out of St. D's. But when Aila's drug money is stolen and her father Joseph returns from prison, the precarious balance of Aila's world is destroyed. Her only options are to run or fight... and Mi'gMaq don't run. Rating: R Year: 2013
Language: English Language Note: Closed captioned. |
Retablo In the remote mountains of Peru, Segundo is being groomed to follow his father's footsteps in the traditional folk art of crafting intricate, artisan story-boxes. Segundo reveres his father, but realizes that the weight of carrying the family legacy will keep him on the mountain forever. When he stumbles across a secret his father is harboring, Segundo will come to face the reality of his religious and conservative landscape. Rating: Not Rated Year: 2018
Language: English |
Being Thunder Sherenté, a Two Spirit Genderqueer teenager from Rhode Island's Narragansett tribe performs traditional dance in competitions at annual pow wows in New England. There is no formal rule which prohibits Two Spirit Genderqueer people from performing in a category different from their birth gender. Wearing female fancy shawl regalia, Sherente dances with joy and beauty. Behind the scenes tribal leaders manipulate Sherente's scores or disqualify them outright because of their belief in traditional binary gender roles. Blindsided by ongoing dishonesty and deception, Sherente continues to perform in spite of insensitive behavior by tribal leaders and others in their community. Sherente's enduring courage and self-respect are met with an outpouring of support from family, pow wow attendees, and fellow dancers Rating: Not Rated Year: 2020
Language: English Language Note: In English; closed-captioned in English. |
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Big Eden A funny, heart-warming romantic tale of a thirty-something gay guy, Henry Hart, who returns to his childhood Montana home when his beloved Grandfather becomes ill. Once there, Henry confronts his unrequited passion for his high school best friend Dean and his feelings about being gay in a small town. But Big Eden residents defy the stereotype of "small town, small minds." As Henry works though his emotions, the townspeople quietly conspire to help him along, until Henry realizes new possibilities for both friendship and romance.
Rating: PG-13 Year: 2000
Language: English Language Note: Closed captioned |
Smoke Signals hooplaThough Victor and Thomas have lived their entire young lives in the same tiny town, they couldn't have less in common! But when Victor is urgently called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the money to pay for his trip. There's just one thing Victor has to do: take Thomas along for the ride! This most unlikely pair leaves home on what becomes an unexpected adventure of friendship and discovery! Rating: PG-13 Year: 1998
Language: English Language Note: Closed Captioned |
Dance Me Outside hooplaDirector Bruce McDonald explores life in a northern Ontario native reservation. This drama, based on a book by W.P. Kinsella, examines the tension between Native Canadians and Anglos in Canada from a Native perspective. Silas Crow, who lives on a Northern Ontario reserve, wants to take a mechanic's course with his friend Frank Fencepost. But before he can enroll, the teen must write a short narrative describing his home. The film is a series of alternatively poignant vignettes from Crow's narrative. Rating: R Year: 2014
Language: English Language Note: Close Captioned |
Gather hoopla or KanopyGather follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide. An indigenous chef embarks on a ambitious project to reclaim ancient food ways on the Apache reservation; in South Dakota a gifted Lakota high school student, raised on a buffalo ranch, is proving her tribes native wisdom through her passion for science; and a group of young men of the Yurok tribe in Northern California are struggling to keep their culture alive and rehabilitate the habitat of their sacred salmon. All these stories combine to show how the reclaiming and recovery of ancient food ways is a way forward for native Americans to bring back health and vitality to their people. Rating: Not Rated Year: 2020 Language: English Language Note: Closed Captioned |
Songs My Brothers Taught Me hoopla or KanopyThe setting is the often starkly beautiful Badlands of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; most of the key players are young Lakota Native Americans who attend Little Wound High School. Johnny and his preteen sister, Jashaun, spend time on horseback when they're not selling illegal liquor or tattoo-designed apparel. Director Chloe Zhao captures the subtleties of a marginalized existence in which the historic culture of a people can't compete on a level playing field with the modern problems of poverty, alcoholism, and violence. Amazingly, she embroiders her tale with moments of breathtaking natural beauty that offset the despair her characters struggle against. Songs is an auspicious debut feature from a director whose superb eye is informed by the sophisticated and nuanced compassion she brings to her story. Rating: Not Rated Year: 2015
Language: English Language Note: Closed Captioned |
What Was Ours KanopyAn Eastern Shoshone elder and two Northern Arapaho youth living on the Wind River Indian Reservation attempt to learn why thousands of ancestral artifacts are in the darkness of underground archives of museums and churches, boxed away and forgotten. Like millions of indigenous people in many parts of the world, they do not control their own material culture. It is being preserved, locked away, by 'outsiders' who themselves do not know what they have. These beautiful ancestral objects - drums, pipes, eagle wing fans, medicine bags, weapons, and ceremonial attire - are far from home, their meaning slowly being lost to time. Should tribes attempt to bring them back? Many want to, including our three main characters. But why do they want them back? What answers do they seek from these artifacts? How can they take control of their own past? Is recovering what's lost even possible anymore? Rating: Not Rated Year: 2016
Language: English Language Note: Closed Captioned |
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