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1. Prey (I) (2022)
R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.
Director: Dan Trachtenberg | Stars: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Stormee Kipp
Votes: 228,704
2. Frontier (2016–2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Follows Declan Harp, a half-Irish/half Cree Native-Canadian outlaw who is campaigning to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the fur trade in Canada.
Stars: Jason Momoa, Landon Liboiron, Zoe Boyle, Greg Bryk
Votes: 24,261
3. Limbo (II) (2023)
108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
'Limbo' follows the investigation of a twenty year-old outback cold case murder by jaded detective Travis Hurley.
Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, Nicholas Hope
Votes: 1,643
4. Wildhood (2021)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
Two brothers embark on a journey to find their birth mother after their abusive father had lied for years about her whereabouts; along the way, they reconnect with their indigenous heritage and make a new friend.
Director: Bretten Hannam | Stars: Phillip Forest Lewitski, Joshua Odjick, Avery Winters-Anthony, Fabien Melanson
Votes: 1,501
5. Dance Me Outside (1994)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama
A story of life on a First Nations reserve in Ontario: Silas and Frank are trying to get into college to train to be mechanics but they find themselves having to deal with girls, family - and murder.
Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Ryan Rajendra Black, Adam Beach, Jennifer Podemski, Michael Greyeyes
Votes: 1,339 | Gross: $0.30M
6. Blood Quantum (2019)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
Director: Jeff Barnaby | Stars: Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon
Votes: 5,424
7. Indian Horse (2017)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sport
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
Director: Stephen S. Campanelli | Stars: Ajuawak Kapashesit, Wayne Baker, Sladen Peltier, Skye Pelletier
Votes: 2,661 | Gross: $1.95M
8. Beans (2020)
92 min | Drama
Based on true events, Tracey Deer's debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 Quebec.
Director: Tracey Deer | Stars: Kiawentiio, Rainbow Dickerson, Violah Beauvais, Paulina Alexis
Votes: 1,071
9. Clearcut (1991)
R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Ron Lea, Graham Greene, Michael Hogan, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
Votes: 1,382
10. Scarborough (2021)
136 min | Drama
Scarborough is the film adaptation of the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community and friendship at a drop-in reading program.
Directors: Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Stars: Liam Diaz, Mekiya Fox, Anna Claire Beitel, Felix Jedi Ingram Isaac
Votes: 483
11. Hard Rock Medical (2013–2018)
Drama
Getting a miner to cough up some stolen diamonds, extracting porcupine quills from a homeless man's posterior, tending to a patient struck by lightning, retrieving severed fingers from a ... See full summary »
Stars: Angela Asher, Rachelle Casseus, Tamara Duarte, Andrea Menard
Votes: 80
12. Highway of Tears (2015)
79 min | Documentary
"Highway of Tears" is about the missing or murdered women along a 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British Columbia. None of the 18 cold-cases had been solved since 1969, until ... See full summary »
Director: Matt Smiley | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Terry Teegee, Mavis Erickson, Mary Teegee
Votes: 137
13. Te Ata (2016)
PG | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Te Ata set her sights on Broadway and what she thought was her life's dream. Audition after audition she was rejected and began to wonder if she was cut out for the bright lights.
Director: Nathan Frankowski | Stars: Q'orianka Kilcher, Gil Birmingham, Brigid Brannagh, Graham Greene
Votes: 993 | Gross: $0.07M
14. Abandoned: Angelique's Isle (2018)
90 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Angelique's Isle is a harrowing tale of perseverance and survival that unfolds during the great copper rush of 1845, when newlyweds ANGELIQUE, a young Ojibway and CHARLIE, her voyageur ... See full summary »
Directors: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Michelle Derosier | Stars: Julia Jones, Charlie Carrick, Tantoo Cardinal, Aden Young
Votes: 281
15. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)
TV-MA | 105 min | Drama
After a chance encounter on the street, a woman tries to encourage a pregnant domestic abuse victim to seek help.
Directors: Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | Stars: Violet Nelson, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Charlie Hannah, Barbara Eve Harris
Votes: 867
16. Saskatchewan (1954)
Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1877 Western Canada, a police inspector revolts against his inept commander, taking a safer route to the U.S. border in order to stop invading hostile Indians.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, J. Carrol Naish, Hugh O'Brian
Votes: 1,176
17. Hudson's Bay (1940)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, History, Romance
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, John Sutton
Votes: 501
18. In My Blood It Runs (2019)
84 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An 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.
Director: Maya Newell | Stars: Carol Turner, Dujuan Turner, Megan Turner
Votes: 462
19. Rustic Oracle (2019)
101 min | Drama
Set in the late 90s, Rustic Oracle is a dramatic feature about Ivy, an 8-year-old girl trying to understand what happened to her big sister who has vanished from their small Mohawk ... See full summary »
Director: Sonia Bonspille Boileau | Stars: Lake Delisle, Carmen Moore, McKenzie Deer Robinson, Margo Kane
Votes: 146
20. Empire of Dirt (2013)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
Three generations of First Nations women struggle to deal with the demons of their past.
Director: Peter Stebbings | Stars: Cara Gee, Shay Eyre, Barbara Gordon, Jean Yoon
Votes: 266
21. Pony Soldier (1952)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Western
In 1876, a Canadian North West Mounted Police Constable must obtain the release of white hostages captured by the Cree tribes that are raiding Montana from their Canadian reservation.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Tyrone Power, Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Gomez, Penny Edwards
Votes: 829
22. Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)
119 min | Documentary
A film account about the military 1990 siege of a Native American reserve near Oka, Quebec, Canada and its causes.
Director: Alanis Obomsawin | Stars: Jack Burning, Herbie Barnes, Alanis Obomsawin, Ethel Blondin
Votes: 485
23. Marungka tjalatjunu (2022)
23 min | Documentary, Short
An Anangu Yankunytjatjara man escapes the city life to return to country for spiritual healing.
Directors: Derik Lynch, Matthew Thorne | Stars: Derik Lynch, Dale Baker, Dominic Roberts, Christopher Stewart
Votes: 55
24. Luku Ngarra: The Law of the Land (2022)
75 min | Documentary, History
Luku Ngarra is an unflinching, indigenous Australian Aboriginal funded documentary on the history and culture of Arnhem Land leading up to the present day, seen through the eyes of one of ... See full summary »
Director: Sinem Saban | Stars: Djiniyini Gondarra, Baykali Ganambarr, Lowurrpa Yunupingu, Biritjalawuy Gondarra
Votes: 10
25. Cashing In (2009–2014)
30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Set on Stonewalker First Nation, nestled comfortably beside an affluent beach community in Southern Manitoba.
Stars: Eric Schweig, Karen Holness, Gregory 'Dominic' Odjig, Wesley French
Votes: 157
26. There Are No Fakes (2019)
113 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A painting, apparently the work of an iconic Native artist, leads the rockstar who buys it into the tragic, brutal world of an art forgery ring in Canada's far north.
Director: Jamie Kastner | Stars: Kevin Hearn, Jonathan Sommer, Jim White, Norval Morrisseau
Votes: 427
27. Once Upon a Time... the Americas (1991–1992)
30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
"Once Upon a Time - The Americas," part of the popular French cartoon franchise "Il était une fois..." , follows the both epic and tragic history of the American continent.
Stars: Patrick Préjean, Roger Carel, Sady Rebbot, Jacques Brunet
Votes: 928
28. H2O (2004)
177 min | Drama
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and corruption.
Stars: Callum Keith Rennie, Michael Murphy, Barry Flatman, Louise Portal
Votes: 286
29. Killing the Indian in the Child (2021 TV Movie)
73 min | Documentary, History
The indigenous population of Canada fell victim to a cultural genocide. The re-education was cruel until 1996: children were torn from their parents and taken to boarding schools. These ... See full summary »
Director: Gwenlaouen Le Gouil | Stars: Gwenlaouen Le Gouil, Stéphane Bittoun, Charlie Angus, Edmund Metatawabin
Votes: 43
30. Great Bear Rainforest (2019)
Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short
Hidden from the outside world, the Great Bear Rain-forest is one of the wildest places left on earth. For the first time ever, experience this magical world in IMAX and giant screen theaters, and discover the land of the spirit bear.
Directors: Rebekah Jorgensen, Ian McAllister, Marc Griffith | Stars: James Cromwell, Ian McAllister, Ryan Reynolds
Votes: 128
31. Paddle to the Sea (1966)
28 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
This film recounts the adventures of a toy Native American canoe as it makes its way from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
Director: Bill Mason | Star: Stanley Jackson
Votes: 551
32. Stream Me (2021)
82 min | Drama
Adira, a teenage girl discovers her love for gaming with some help from a top Twitch streamer as her mentor, Autumn Rhodes. Adira quickly rises to a professional streaming status and must overcome new challenges.
Director: Stephanie Joline | Stars: Christine DiGiosia, Makye Clayton, Samantha Gloade, Celina Aalders
Votes: 12
33. White Buffalo: An American Prophecy (2021)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary
From the opening scene - the appearance of a Divine Feminine Spirit to the Lakota centuries ago - WHITE BUFFALO: An American Prophecy follows the journey of four brothers. In their search ... See full summary »
Director: Ethan Marten | Stars: Vincent Blackfeather, Pamela Anne Bro, Lightning Medicine Cloud, Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook
Votes: 54
34. Savage (IV) (2009)
6 min | Short, Drama, Musical
On a summer day in the 1950s, a native Cree girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in her Cree language. When the girl ... See full summary »
Director: Lisa Jackson | Stars: Ta'kaiya Blaney, Skeena Reece, Marshall Abery, Morgan Abery
Votes: 28
35. Fallen Hero: The Tommy Prince Story (1998 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Tommy Prince was a First Nations man of incredible drive and ambition, with the keenest instincts, the sharpest eye and strong leadership qualities. His name is well known across Canada, ... See full summary »
Director: Audrey Mehler
36. Warrior Up!
22 min | Documentary | Post-production
Warrior Up. is a 13 x 22-minute documentary series that follows inspiring Indigenous youth making positive change in their communities. Whether it's defending the land, learning and then ... See full summary »
Stars: Anna Lambe, Joshua Odjick, Joel Oulette
37. Rise (I) (2017)
Documentary
Vice travels to Indigenous communities across the Americas to meet people protecting their homelands and rising up against colonization.
Stars: Sarain Fox, Gitz Crazyboy, Iphy Murphy
Votes: 56
38. Wild Canada (2014)
180 min | Documentary
A look at the the beautiful scenery, wildlife and diverse cultures that make up Canada.
Stars: David Suzuki, Jenny Duffy, Troy Delaney, Annalise Gardner
Votes: 196
39. One Dead Indian (2006 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, History
Stoney Point Natives assemble at Ipperwash Provincial Park for what began as a peaceful protest.
Director: Tim Southam | Stars: Eric Schweig, Dakota House, Gabrielle Miller, Gordon Tootoosis
Votes: 139
40. Mothers & Daughters (2008)
85 min | Comedy
A comedic exploration of the turbulent lives of three very different women and the complex relationship each has with her daughter.
Director: Carl Bessai | Stars: Babs Chula, Gabrielle Rose, Tantoo Cardinal, Camille Sullivan
Votes: 107
41. The Skin I'm In (2012)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
A young man is found on the Berlin subway tracks with his head split open and a lethal blood alcohol level of 0.47. Saved by strangers, he is propelled on a global journey that explores the limits of body, mind, spirit and art.
Director: Broderick Fox | Stars: Rande Cook, Broderick Fox, Zulu Zulu
Votes: 14
42. The Legend of Marshal Dead
Short, History, Western | Post-production
A retired artist with dementia risks scorn from his family when he confesses his outrageous comic book tales about a resurrected U.S. Marshal were actually taken from an ancestor's journals.
Director: Marc Isaacs | Stars: Burton Gilliam, Nikki Dixon, Carl Bailey, Lisa Alavi
43. Secret Path (2016 TV Movie)
60 min | Animation
Follows the escape of Chanie Wenjack from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School and the brutal winter conditions he faces on the outside.
Director: Gord Downie
Votes: 71
44. Dirty Water (2014)
3 min | Documentary, Short, Drama | Completed
A Northern First Nation struggles to get drinkable water.
Director: Daniel Fortin | Stars: Ryan J. Lindsay, Daniel Fortin
45. Mohawk Girls (2005)
55 min | Documentary
Mohawk Girls is a feature-length documentary about three teenage-girls growing up in the Kahnawake Mohawk community, outside of Montreal. Shot over the span of two years, Mohawk filmmaker, ... See full synopsis »
Director: Tracey Deer | Star: Haro Thaya
Votes: 18
46. Lil Glooscap and the Legends of Turtle Island (2022– )
Animation
Stars: Tara Joy Audibert, Kateri Mowbray, Rebecca Elmire Tremblay
47. The Long Ride Home (2020)
65 min | Documentary
Powered only by their spirit, a brave group of natives set off on a 600-mile horse ride to bring awareness to the inter-generational trauma their people have endured since colonization.
Director: Steve Haining | Stars: Roben Badger, Danny Bunn, Heather Cote, Jon Eagle Sr.
Votes: 23
48. Audrey Napanangka (2022)
84 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Penelope McDonald | Stars: Santo Giardina, Jungarrayi Johnson, Tyrese Johnson, Audrey Martin
Votes: 14
49. Rhythms of the Heart (2018)
80 min | Documentary
This documentary depicts a nationally recognized Passamaquoddy's fight to preserve heritage, culture, and family while facing cancer. Original score, indigenous artistry, and interviews, including Geo Neptune (Netflix's Getting Curious).
Director: Thom Willey | Stars: David Moses Bridges, Geo Neptune
Votes: 5
50. Tiger on the Rocks (2022)
55 min | Documentary
The Tasmanian Tiger once roamed throughout Australia, leaving lasting connections with the land and its First Peoples.
Director: Cathryn Vasseleu | Star: Rachael Maza