Top Indigenous Movies / TV
by tizaki | created - 07 Oct 2022 | updated - 1 week ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Art of Incarceration (2021)
81 min | Documentary
Seen through the eyes of Indigenous prisoners at Victoria's Fulham Correctional Centre, The Art of Incarceration explores how art and culture can empower First Nations people to transcend their unjust cycles of imprisonment.
Director: Alex Siddons | Stars: Jack Charles, Robby Wirramanda, Christopher Austin, Troy
Votes: 53
2. Winterhawk (1975)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Western
In 1845 Montana, a Blackfoot Chief tries to buy a cure for his tribe's smallpox infection, but the white settlers are unsympathetic, forcing the Indian Chief to resort to desperate measures.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Leif Erickson, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle, L.Q. Jones
Votes: 627
3. Bloody White People (2021 Video)
Documentary, Short
A video essay on Jennifer Kent's film The Nightingale
4. The Nightingale (I) (2018)
R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Maya Christie, Baykali Ganambarr, Addison Christie
Votes: 35,624 | Gross: $0.39M
5.
United Shades of America (2016–2022)
Episode:
Native Americans
(2017)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, History, Reality-TV
Kamau heads to the Dakotas to shed light on a population over which the United States has too long cast a shadow: the indigenous people we mistakenly call Native Americans.
Stars: Adam Beach, W. Kamau Bell, Ben-Alex Dupris, Chase Iron Eyes
Votes: 33
6.
United Shades of America (2016–2022)
Episode:
Hmong Americans and the Secret War
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, History, Reality-TV
Kamau meets members of the Hmong community brought here after the Secret War forced their expulsion from Laos and learns the multi-generational stories of loss, perseverance and hope that make up their American journey.
Star: W. Kamau Bell
Votes: 13
7.
United Shades of America (2016–2022)
Episode:
Native Hawaii
(2018)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, History, Reality-TV
W. Kamau Bell visits the islands of Hawaii to see how the Native Hawaiians are doing.
Votes: 21
8. Life Below Zero: First Alaskans (2022– )
TV-14 | Documentary
Follows Alaskan Natives who are focusing on their right to preserve their threatened ways of life, to ensure its survival for the next thousand years.
Stars: Steven Strassburg, Daniel Apassingok, Jody Potts-Joseph, Joel Jacko
Votes: 154
9. Terror on the Prairie (2022)
TV-MA | 107 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
On the Montana plains, a frontier woman must protect herself against a ruthless gang of outlaws hell-bent on revenge.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Gina Carano, Nick Searcy, Donald Cerrone, Heath Freeman
Votes: 7,325
10. We Burn Like This (2021)
81 min | Drama
When 22 year-old Rae, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, is targeted by Neo-Nazis in Billings, Montana, her ancestors' trauma becomes real.
Director: Alana Waksman | Stars: Devery Jacobs, Madeleine Coghlan, Kate Britton, Jenna Ciralli
Votes: 352
11. Into the West (2005)
TV-14 | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Tales from the American West in the 19th century, told from the perspective of two families, one of white settlers and one of Native Americans.
Stars: Joseph M. Marshall, Irene Bedard, Gil Birmingham, John Terry
Votes: 7,553
12. Slash/Back (2022)
86 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
In Nunavut, four girls who like horror and alien movies, love their phones and even their poor elders who believe in shapeshifters because "they didn't have the internet" realize local disappearances are linked to a shapeshifting alien.
Director: Nyla Innuksuk | Stars: Kristian Bruun, Shaun Benson, Troy James, Nalajoss Ellsworth
Votes: 1,945
13. Dark Winds (2022– )
TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Follows 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.
Stars: Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten, Deanna Allison
Votes: 16,289
14. Women of the White Buffalo (2022)
86 min | Documentary
The Lakota women living on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, are rising up against the forces that continue to suppress them. By preserving and protecting their ancestral values and wisdom, they provide hope to their people.
Director: Deborah Anderson | Stars: Delacina Chief Eagle, Rita Coolidge, Bryan Deans, Sharon Fool Bull
Votes: 95
15.
Human Planet (2011)
Episode:
Arctic: Life in the Deep Freeze
(2011)
TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary
In the vast icy wastes of the Arctic very little grows. It's dark for months in the winter and the freezing temperatures make it particularly inhospitable. Yet four million people live ... See full summary »
Directors: Nicolas Brown, Mark Flowers, Tom Hugh-Jones, Tuppence Stone | Star: John Hurt
Votes: 436
16. Windwalker (1980)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1797 Utah, an aged Cheyenne patriarch helps his kin to fight off a raiding party of rival Crow warriors and he tells his grandchildren the story of their family.
Director: Kieth Merrill | Stars: Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus, James Remar, Serene Hedin
Votes: 1,226 | Gross: $18.64M
17. Altered States (1980)
R | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid
Votes: 38,630 | Gross: $19.85M
18. Soldier Blue (1970)
R | 112 min | Drama, War, Western
After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson
Votes: 6,276 | Gross: $0.51M
19. Maralinga Tjarutja (2020 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History
When the dust settles, culture remains...The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country.
Director: Larissa Behrendt | Stars: Jeremy Lebois, Mima Smart, Hilary Williams, Tommy Baker
Votes: 30
20. Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (2022 TV Special)
86 min | Comedy
In his final comedy special, Norm Macdonald ponders casinos, cannibalism, living wills and why you have to be ready for whatever life throws your way.
Directors: Norm MacDonald, Jeff Tomsic | Stars: Norm MacDonald, Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien
Votes: 2,210
21. Utu (1983)
Unrated | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1870, a Maori warrior working with the British finds his village massacred, and vows revenge.
Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott, Kelly Johnson
Votes: 1,331
22. The Emerald Forest (1985)
R | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Yara Vaneau, William Rodriguez
Votes: 10,990 | Gross: $24.47M
23. Crush (I) (2022)
TV-MA | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
An aspiring young artist joins her high school track team and later discovers what real love feels like when she finds herself falling for an unexpected teammate.
Director: Sammi Cohen | Stars: Rowan Blanchard, Auli'i Cravalho, Isabella Ferreira, Tyler Alvarez
Votes: 9,689
24. Pada (2022)
130 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
All the governments that have ruled the nation made laws that denied the indigenous people their way of life and their land often, protecting crony capitalist interests. The film revisits an episode of dissent in the 90s which brought up this question amongst us. A history forgotten!
Director: Kamal K.M. | Stars: Kunchacko Boban, Vinayakan, Joju George, Dileesh Pothan
Votes: 2,994
25.
Tribes, Predators & Me (2016– )
Episode:
Eagle People of Mongolia
(2017)
59 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Gordon joins a family of Kazakhs in western Mongolia to learn how they train female golden eagles to hunt for them. He works with a young eagle in training before competing in a tournament.
Director: Rachael Kinley | Star: Gordon Buchanan
26.
Tribes, Predators & Me (2016– )
Episode:
Crocodile People of New Guinea
(2016)
59 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Gordon travels up Papua New Guinea's remote Sepik River to meet local tribes who live alongside crocodiles. He is invited to join a tribe who hunt them using their bare hands and one who believe they are protected by a giant crocodile.
Directors: Rachael Kinley, Patrick Evans | Star: Gordon Buchanan
Votes: 7
27.
Tribes, Predators & Me (2016– )
Episode:
Lion People of the Kalahari
(2016)
59 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Gordon joins a group of bushmen in Botswana's Kalahari Desert to learn how to survive on foot among wild lions. He learns how to collect water from desert plants, find honey and how to retrieve meat from the lions.
Director: Rachael Kinley | Star: Gordon Buchanan
Votes: 8
28.
Tribes, Predators & Me (2016– )
Episode:
Anaconda People of the Amazon
(2016)
59 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Gordon joins a Waorani tribal family in Ecuador's Amazon jungle as they search for giant anacondas. The family teach him their secrets for survival but his greatest challenge is to help them catch one of the giant snakes.
Director: Rachael Kinley | Star: Gordon Buchanan
Votes: 15
29.
Tribes, Predators & Me (2016– )
Episode:
Hyena People of Ethiopia
(2017)
59 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Gordon journeys across Ethiopia to discover how peoples attitudes and relationships with these powerful carnivores differ in various parts of the country.
Director: Patrick Evans | Star: Gordon Buchanan
Votes: 7
30.
Tribes, Predators & Me (2016– )
Episode:
Shark People of the South Pacific
(2017)
59 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
On Owarigi, a remote island in the Solomon Islands, Gordon learns how the locals fish by free-diving and encounter sharks every day. He discovers that commercial fishing and shark-finning are threatening their way of life.
Director: Rachael Kinley | Star: Gordon Buchanan
Votes: 9
31. Tribes, Predators & Me (2016– )
Adventure, Reality-TV
Wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan attempts to gain a new understanding of some of nature's fiercest predators by meeting and living with the local tribes that live alongside them.
Star: Gordon Buchanan
Votes: 54
32. Lost for Words (2021–2022)
Documentary
Lost for Words follows eight brave Australians on a life-changing opportunity to transform their lives by taking part in an intensive nine-week long adult literacy program. Hosted and ... See full summary »
Stars: Jay Laga'aia, Marcus Graham, Mark Olive, Jackie French
Votes: 25
33. The Last Wave (1977)
PG | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
Votes: 11,025
34. Gurrumul (2017)
96 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.
Director: Paul Damien Williams | Stars: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Mark Grose, Michael Hohnen, Sting
Votes: 291
35. End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock (2021)
TV-MA | 87 min | Documentary, History
A group of Indigenous women risks their lives to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which jeopardizes their land, water and entire way of life.
Director: Shannon Kring | Stars: Wasté Win Young, Phyllis Young, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Pearl Means
Votes: 111
36. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Angela Punch McGregor, Ray Barrett
Votes: 2,529
37. The Xrossing (2020)
108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a murder remains unsolved, 3 boys suspect and harass a reclusive indigenous man. One boy decides to break the cycle to make amends, however the inertia of past actions bring multiple characters to a crossroad and thrilling climax.
Director: Steven J. Mihaljevich | Stars: Kelton Pell, Luke J. Morgan, Jacob O'Neill, Jamie Smith
Votes: 265
38. Homeward (2019)
96 min | Drama
A father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea.
Director: Nariman Aliev | Stars: Akhtem Seitablaev, Remzi Bilyalov, Dariya Barikhashvili, Anatoliy Marempolskiy
Votes: 2,012
39. Never Cry Wolf (1983)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama
A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Director: Carroll Ballard | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah
Votes: 8,781 | Gross: $29.60M
40. El Norte (1983)
R | 141 min | Adventure, Drama
After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.
Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago
Votes: 5,591
41. Notes from the Field (2018 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama
Shining a light on a lost generation of American youth, Anna Deavere Smith brings to life the stories of 18 real-life people, among them current and former inmates, protesters, educators and politicians.
Director: Kristi Zea | Stars: Ashley Nicole Baptiste, Anna Deavere Smith
Votes: 371
42. In a Savage Land (1999)
Not Rated | 115 min | Adventure, Drama
Two married anthropologists go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research.
Director: Bill Bennett | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Martin Donovan, Maya Stange, Max Cullen
Votes: 583
43. Eating Our Way to Extinction (2021)
82 min | Documentary
Globally renowned figures and the world's leading scientists open the lid on the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about: the damaging effects of factory farming.
Directors: Ludo Brockway, Otto Brockway | Stars: Kate Winslet, Anthony Robbins, Richard Branson, Sylvia Earle
Votes: 2,092
44. Hombre (1967)
Approved | 111 min | Drama, Western
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento
Votes: 13,832
45. Primal Survivor (2016– )
Documentary, Action, Adventure
Primal Survivor tracks wilderness guide and survival instructor Hazen Audel as he tackles some of mankind's most rigorous journeys, relying on skills learned from native inhabitants.After ... See full summary »
Star: Hazen Audel
Votes: 569
46. Dances with Wolves (1990)
PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Votes: 290,562 | Gross: $184.21M
47. Aakrosh (1980)
144 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.
Director: Govind Nihalani | Stars: Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri
Votes: 1,183
48. The Dead Lands (2014)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure
After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, the teenage son of a slain Maori chieftain looks to avenge his father's murder and bring peace and honor to the souls of his loved ones.
Director: Toa Fraser | Stars: James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare, Te Kohe Tuhaka, Xavier Horan
Votes: 5,273 | Gross: $0.00M
49. Outer Range (2022– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A rancher fighting for his land and family discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming's wilderness.
Stars: Lewis Pullman, Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor
Votes: 33,252
50. 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
PG-13 | 154 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Loren Dean
Votes: 32,806 | Gross: $7.19M
51. 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: 145
52. Klondike (2014)
46 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Two childhood friends, Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein, embark on a journey to Klondike, Yukon, in hopes of discovering a fortune in a remote town.
Stars: Abbie Cornish, Marton Csokas, Ian Hart, Greg Lawson
Votes: 6,596
53. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Votes: 62,267
54. Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
With an older brother in jail and living with their single mother on Pine Ridge Reservation, Johnny and his sister Jashuan's lives develop new challenges when their absentee cowboy father ... See full summary »
Director: Chloé Zhao | Stars: John Reddy, Jashaun St. John, Irene Bedard, Jessica Rowland
Votes: 3,838 | Gross: $0.03M
55. Waru (2017)
86 min | Drama
A powerful, challenging story surrounding the tangi (funeral) of a small Waru boy who dies at the hands of his caregiver and how his death impacts the community.
Directors: Ainsley Gardiner, Casey Kaa, Renae Maihi, Awanui Simich-Pene, Briar Grace Smith, Paula Whetu Jones, Chelsea Winstanley, Katie Wolfe | Stars: Tanea Heke, Roimata Fox, Ngapaki Moetara, Awhina-Rose Ashby
Votes: 339
56. Windtalkers (2002)
R | 134 min | Action, Drama, War
Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich
Votes: 73,630 | Gross: $40.91M
57. Harry (2013)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Gritty and suspenseful, this award-winning drama probes the narcotics underworld of New Zealand's largest city and the toll it takes on those caught in its grip.
Stars: Oscar Kightley, Sam Neill, Hunter Kamuhemu, Erroll Shand
Votes: 252
58. Black Robe (1991)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg
Votes: 7,663 | Gross: $8.21M
59. The Furnace (2020)
116 min | Adventure, Drama, History
To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
Director: Roderick MacKay | Stars: Ahmed Malek, Baykali Ganambarr, Kaushik Das, Noah Skape
Votes: 4,208
60. The Secret of Sinchanee (2021)
115 min | Horror
An industrial tow truck driver suffering from insomnia returns to his childhood home after the untimely death of his father, to discover that a paranormal presence has been living in the house and haunting the sacred land it was built on.
Director: Steven Grayhm | Stars: Steven Grayhm, Nate Boyer, Laila Lockhart Kraner, Tamara Austin
Votes: 4,160
61. Catch the Fair One (2021)
85 min | Crime, Thriller
A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
Director: Josef Kubota Wladyka | Stars: Kali Reis, Shelly Vincent, Kendall Morris, Faye Lone
Votes: 2,385
62. Millie Lies Low (2021)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Anxiety-ridden Millie is on her way from Wellington to New York for an internship at a prestigious architecture firm when a moment of panic causes her to miss her flight.
Director: Michelle Savill | Stars: Ana Scotney, Jillian Nguyen, Chris Alosio, Sam Cotton
Votes: 232
63. Maïna (2013)
102 min | Drama
A Canadian aboriginal woman journeys to the Arctic in search of a missing member of her tribe, and falls in love with a man from a rival clan.
Director: Michel Poulette | Stars: Roseanne Supernault, Ipeelie Ootoova, Uapshkuss Thernish, Eric Schweig
Votes: 502
64. Museo (2018)
128 min | Crime, Drama
In 1985, a group of criminals mock the security of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City to extract 140 pre-Hispanic pieces from their showcases.
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Leonardo Ortizgris, Alfredo Castro, Simon Russell Beale
Votes: 5,969 | Gross: $0.15M
65. Thunderheart (1992)
R | 119 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward
Votes: 17,129 | Gross: $22.66M
66. The Worst Person in the World (2021)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum, Hans Olav Brenner
Votes: 97,379
67. Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021)
TV-14 | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
A remarkable story inspired by the life of renowned Chickasaw cattleman Montford T. Johnson, a man who overcame great hardships to establish a ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West, the Chisolm Trail.
Director: Nathan Frankowski | Stars: Martin Sensmeier, Dermot Mulroney, Tommy Flanagan, James Landry Hébert
Votes: 1,002
68. 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: 1,060
69. Theeb (2014)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
Director: Naji Abu Nowar | Stars: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen, Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh, Jack Fox
Votes: 11,517 | Gross: $0.28M
70. Firebite (2021–2022)
TV-MA | 42 min | Fantasy
Following two indigenous Australian hunters to battle the last colony of vampires in the South-Australian desert.
Stars: Rob Collins, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Callan Mulvey, Yael Stone
Votes: 918
71. Sami Blood (2016)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History
A 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.
Director: Amanda Kernell | Stars: Maj-Doris Rimpi, Olle Sarri, Ánne Biret Somby, Bo Lundmark
Votes: 8,293
72. Birds of Passage (2018)
Not Rated | 125 min | Crime, Drama
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
Directors: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra | Stars: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez
Votes: 13,130 | Gross: $0.51M
73. Men with Guns (II) (1997)
R | 127 min | Adventure, Drama
Humberto Fuentes is a wealthy doctor whose wife has recently died. In spite of the advice of his children, he takes a trip to visit his former students who now work in impoverished villages... See full summary »
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado, Dan Rivera González, Tania Cruz
Votes: 2,890 | Gross: $0.74M
74. Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Not Rated | 125 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Director: Ciro Guerra | Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolívar, Brionne Davis
Votes: 24,454 | Gross: $1.33M
75. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
R | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig
Votes: 187,599 | Gross: $75.51M
76. Jai Bhim (2021)
Approved | 164 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a tribal man is arrested for a case of alleged theft, his wife turns to a human-rights lawyer to help bring justice.
Director: T.J. Gnanavel | Stars: Suriya, Lijo Mol Jose, Manikandan K., Rajisha Vijayan
Votes: 217,141
77. Ainbo (2021)
TV-Y7 | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An epic journey of a young hero and her Spirit Guides, "Dillo" a cute and humorous armadillo and "Vaca" a goofy oversized tapir, who embark on a quest to save their home in the spectacular Amazon Rainforest.
Directors: Richard Claus, Jose Zelada | Stars: Lola Raie, Naomi Serrano, Dino Andrade, Joe Hernandez
Votes: 2,268
78. Rapa Nui (1994)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Love between the representatives of two warring tribes changes the balance of power on the whole remote island.
Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales, Sandrine Holt, Eru Potaka Dewes
Votes: 5,320 | Gross: $0.31M
79. Total Control (2019– )
60 min | Drama, Thriller
An Indigenous woman in Australia is thrust into the political limelight.
Stars: Deborah Mailman, Rachel Griffiths, Rob Collins, Wesley Patten
Votes: 1,680
80. Maya and the Three (2021)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Short, Action
A Mesoamerican warrior princess embarks on a quest to recruit three legendary fighters to help save the world of gods and humankind.
Stars: Zoe Saldana, Jorge R. Gutiérrez, Dee Bradley Baker, Sandra Equihua
Votes: 4,995
81. Tribal (I) (2020–2022)
44 min | Crime, Drama
The Justice Department forms a task force to uncover the truth behind the tomb of indigenous bodies discovered under the city, while the divide between the Tribal and Metro Police departments escalates.
Stars: Jessica Matten, Brian Markinson, Garry Chalk, Ryan Northcott
Votes: 447
82. The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Omri, a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, receives an odd variety of presents for his birthday: a wooden cupboard from his older brother, a set of antique keys from his mother, and a plastic Indian from his best friend, Patrick.
Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Hal Scardino, Litefoot, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Jenkins
Votes: 31,033 | Gross: $35.62M
83. The Flood (2020)
117 min | Drama, History, Western
When a woman's husband, daughter, land and innocence are ripped from her, she embarks on a brutal journey of retribution and revenge.
Director: Victoria Wharfe McIntyre | Stars: Alexis Lane, Shaka Cook, Dean Kyrwood, Dalara Williams
Votes: 450
84. Frozen River (2008)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?
Director: Courtney Hunt | Stars: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe
Votes: 26,460 | Gross: $2.51M
85. The Tracker (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Western
Fanatic is a government trooper who is heading an expedition to find an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman. Others in the expedition are the Follower, a greenhorn trooper, the Veteran, and the Tracker.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau, Grant Page
Votes: 3,296
86. What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1999)
108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jake Muss' oldest son is killed in a gang fight and the younger son wants revenge, but Jake doesn't want to lose his other son to violence as well.
Director: Ian Mune | Stars: Temuera Morrison, Rena Owen, Clint Eruera, Nancy Brunning
Votes: 3,768
87. See (2019–2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Far in a dystopian future, the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, build, hunt, and to survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins are born with sight.
Stars: Jason Momoa, Sylvia Hoeks, Hera Hilmar, Christian Camargo
Votes: 98,461
88. Reservation Dogs (2021–2023)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Crime
Comedy series about four Native American teenagers growing up on a reservation in eastern Oklahoma.
Stars: D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Devery Jacobs, Paulina Alexis, Lane Factor
Votes: 24,213
89. Cousins (III) (2021)
98 min | Drama
Entwines the very different lives of three Maori girls, cousins, through tumultuous decades, after one of them is taken from her family and raised in an orphanage.
Directors: Ainsley Gardiner, Briar Grace Smith | Stars: Rachel House, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Cohen Holloway, Miriama Smith
Votes: 670
90. Enemy Within (2019)
TV-14 | 109 min | Action, Drama, History
When a Japanese pilot crash-lands on the tiny remote Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau, he is met with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality from the locals - until they discover he was part of the recent attack on Pearl Harbor.
Director: Gabriel Robertson | Stars: Joseph Naufahu, Kazuma Sano, Beulah Koale, Takashi Yamaguchi
Votes: 1,066
91. Skins (2002)
R | 84 min | Crime, Drama
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux brothers living on the Pine Ridge reservation.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, Noah Watts
Votes: 1,559 | Gross: $0.24M
92. Christmas in the Clouds (2001)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
During the holidays at a ski resort in Utah run by a Native American tribe, the overworked manager and a widowed woman from the big city overcome mistaken identities and intrusive guests in their pursuit of romance.
Director: Kate Montgomery | Stars: Timothy Vahle, Sam Vlahos, Mariana Tosca, M. Emmet Walsh
Votes: 890
93. Crooked Arrows (2012)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Sport
A story centered on a Native American lacrosse team making its way through a prep school league tournament.
Director: Steve Rash | Stars: Gil Birmingham, Brandon Routh, Crystal Allen, Chelsea Ricketts
Votes: 2,093 | Gross: $1.83M
94. The Snow Walker (2003)
PG | 103 min | Adventure, Drama
A pilot and his passenger struggle for survival after crashing in the Arctic tundra.
Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell, Kiersten Warren
Votes: 11,368
95. Brother Bear (2003)
G | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.
Directors: Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis, Jason Raize
Votes: 123,756 | Gross: $85.34M
96. Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama
Red Crow Mi'kmaq 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.
Director: Jeff Barnaby | Stars: Devery Jacobs, Glen Gould, Brandon Oakes, Roseanne Supernault
Votes: 1,467 | Gross: $0.00M
97. Big Miracle (2012)
PG | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In small-town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his Greenpeace-volunteer ex-girlfriend on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
Director: Ken Kwapis | Stars: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, John Pingayak, Ahmaogak Sweeney
Votes: 20,513 | Gross: $20.11M
98. Samson & Delilah (II) (2009)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A glue-sniffing boy and his girlfriend escape the government-controlled no-hope Aboriginal community they live in and go to the city, Alice Springs, looking for a better life.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Stars: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, Scott Thornton
Votes: 3,763
99. Tracker (2010)
R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An Afrikaner veteran of the Boer War has just immigrated to New Zealand and is hired to track a man accused of killing a soldier. While hunting through the countryside he captures his ... See full summary »
Director: Ian Sharp | Stars: Ray Winstone, Nicholas McGough, Gareth Reeves, Mark Mitchinson
Votes: 4,210
100. The New World (2005)
PG-13 | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale
Votes: 89,853 | Gross: $12.71M
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