Films for Educators
Educators can either use these films to inform their practices or to show these to their classes to help students learn about Indigenous culture better. Many of these films can be located on the NFB website, which is free to use. Some of the movies come with study guides in case teachers want to create lesson plans built around these movies.
Documentaries
Arnaquq-Baril, Alethea - Angry Inuk
https://www.nfb.ca/film/angry_inuk/
Hubbard, Tasha - nîpawistamâsowin : We Will Stand Up
https://www.nfb.ca/film/nipawistamasowin-we-will-stand-up/
Low, Colin - Circle of the Sun
https://www.nfb.ca/film/circle-of-the-sun/
Ransen, Mort - You Are on Indian Land
Obomsawin, Alanis - Incident at Restigouche
https://www.nfb.ca/film/incident_at_restigouche/
Obomsawin, Alanis - Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
https://www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsatake_270_years_of_resistance/
Obomsawin, Alanis - Richard Cardinal: Cry From a Diary of a Métis Child
Masayesva Jr., Victor - Itam Hakim, Hopiit
Bilich, Steve - Native New Yorker
Brown, Quentin - Netsilik
(Uploaded in several parts. Search director on NFB website)
Flaherty, Robert - Nanook of the North
Gardner, Robert - Blunden Harbor
Leustig, Jack - 500 Nations (documentary mini-series)
Other
Kunuk, Zacharias - Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (drama)
https://www.nfb.ca/film/atanarjuat_the_fast_runner_en/
Hepburn, Kathleen - The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (drama)
Kunuk, Zacharias - Searchers (drama)
Dunn, Willie - The Ballad of Crowfoot (music video)
https://www.nfb.ca/film/ballad_of_crowfoot/
Bainbridge, Catherine - Reel Injun (critical history of Indigenous peoples in NA Cinema)
Ehrlich, Judd - Keepers of the Game (physical education)