Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "canada", "native-american"

1. The Searchers (1956)

Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond

Votes: 96,185

2. The Ice Road (2021)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a 'big-rig' ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen lake to save the trapped miners.

Director: Jonathan Hensleigh | Stars: Liam Neeson, Marcus Thomas, Laurence Fishburne, Amber Midthunder

Votes: 47,587

3. SLC Punk! (1998)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In the early 1980s Stevo, and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conservative Salt Lake City.

Director: James Merendino | Stars: Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Lien

Votes: 32,742 | Gross: $0.30M

4. 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: 7,664 | Gross: $8.21M

5. 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: 26,454 | Gross: $2.51M

6. Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)

R | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves.

Director: Grant Harvey | Stars: Katharine Isabelle, Emily Perkins, Nathaniel Arcand, JR Bourne

Votes: 11,577

7. Dudley Do-Right (1999)

PG | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

The inept Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-Right chases after villain Snidely Whiplash and woos girlfriend Nell Fenwick.

Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina, Eric Idle

Votes: 11,380 | Gross: $9.69M

8. 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: 2,650 | Gross: $1.95M

9. North of 60 (1992–1998)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A mystery drama series about trials and tribulations of Aboriginal people in the fictional town of Lynx River, Northwest Territories.

Stars: Tina Keeper, Tracey Cook, Tom Jackson, Timothy Webber

Votes: 656

10. North West Mounted Police (1940)

Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Western

In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster

Votes: 1,828

11. Grey Owl (1999)

PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Western

The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.

Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau

Votes: 4,035 | Gross: $0.63M

12. One Week (I) (2008)

Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Drama

Chronicles the motorcycle trip of Ben Tyler as he rides from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. Ben stops at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life.

Director: Michael McGowan | Stars: Joshua Jackson, Peter Spence, Marc Strange, Gage Munroe

Votes: 12,042

13. Map of the Human Heart (1992)

R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Arctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting in 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal where he meets Albertine. They meet again when Avik joins World War II in the UK.

Director: Vincent Ward | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, Robert Joamie

Votes: 3,429 | Gross: $2.81M

14. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)

R | 172 min | Drama

The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.

Director: Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk

Votes: 6,859 | Gross: $3.79M

15. 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: 1,332 | Gross: $0.30M

16. True Heart (1999)

PG | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A brother and sister are plane-wrecked in Canada, where they must rely on the help of a native and his bear.

Director: Catherine Cyran | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Zachery Ty Bryan, August Schellenberg, Dey Young

Votes: 1,172

17. Magic Hour: Lost in the Barrens (1990 TV Movie)

93 min | Adventure, Drama

An orphaned teen and a young tribal hunter get lost in the wilderness.

Director: Michael J.F. Scott | Stars: Nicholas Shields, Evan Adams, Lee J. Campbell, Graham Greene

Votes: 433

18. Strangers in Good Company (1990)

PG | 101 min | Adventure, Drama

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives.

Director: Cynthia Scott | Stars: Alice Diabo, Constance Garneau, Beth Webber, Catherine Roche

Votes: 1,299 | Gross: $1.00M

19. I Will Fight No More Forever (1975 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Drama, History

In a period when many thought that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian," Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce won the admiration of the American public.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: James Whitmore, Sam Elliott, Ned Romero, Linda Redfearn

Votes: 749

20. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)

120 min | Documentary, History

The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.

Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Frank Barrett

Votes: 2,146 | Gross: $0.13M

21. Battle of the Brave (2004)

PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, History, Romance

In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls.

Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Noémie Godin-Vigneau, David La Haye, Juliette Gosselin, Sébastien Huberdeau

Votes: 1,363

22. Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005)

PG | 95 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with his son, he decides to bring the boy ... See full summary »

Director: John Henderson | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Danny Mags, Rena Owen, Jacinta Wawatai

Votes: 802

23. 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: 1,167

24. Conspiracy of Silence (1991– )

240 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a young Canadian Aboriginal girl is murdered in 1971, it takes 20 years of inaction and prejudice before the police finally find the real killers. Meanwhile the killers have to live with their own guilt and fear of being caught.

Stars: Michael Mahonen, Ian Tracey, Jonathan Potts, Diego Chambers

Votes: 236

25. Disappearances (2006)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Forced to smuggle whiskey in an attempt to save a family, Quebec Bill (Kris Kristofferson) and his son embark on an unforgettable trip through the vast reaches of the wilderness.

Director: Jay Craven | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Charlie McDermott, Gary Farmer, William Sanderson

Votes: 662 | Gross: $0.31M

26. Red Coat (1975)

88 min | Adventure, Western

Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed. When Caribou escapes from prison, he returns to seek revenge.

Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Fabio Testi, Guido Mannari, Robert Hundar, Lars Bloch

Votes: 132

27. The Lesser Blessed (2012)

R | 86 min | Drama

A drama centered on a First Nations teenager trying to find his place in the modern world.

Director: Anita Doron | Stars: Joel Evans, Kiowa Gordon, Chloe Rose, Adam Butcher

Votes: 671

28. Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2007)

Not Rated | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, History

On the coast of North America in AD 1007, two Norsemen are stranded when their expedition is attacked and they are left for dead. As they struggle to survive in the vast forests of the New ... See full summary »

Director: Tony Stone | Stars: Fiore Tedesco, Tony Stone, David Perry, Noelle Bailey

Votes: 560 | Gross: $0.02M

29. Where the Spirit Lives (1989)

96 min | Drama

A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.

Director: Bruce Pittman | Stars: Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones, Gus Chief Moon

Votes: 293

30. 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: 480

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: 547

32. Hawk of the Wilderness (1938)

Approved | 213 min | Adventure

An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt.

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Mala, Monte Blue, Harley Wood

Votes: 87

33. The Canadians (1961)

TV-PG | 85 min | Western

When 6000 Sioux flee to Canada, they are permitted to stay. But a Montana rancher and his cowboys, in search of stolen horses, kill all inhabitants of a Sioux village and claim they only wanted to free a white squaw who had been kidnapped.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Torin Thatcher, Burt Metcalfe

Votes: 297

34. Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (2006– )

Drama

Fictional portrayal of 'The Summer of 1990' in Kanehsatake: the major conflict between a Mohawk community and the Canadian and Quebec governments - over the expansion of a golf course into an aboriginal cemetery.

Stars: Alex Rice, Tony Nardi, Billy Merasty, Pamela Matthews

Votes: 57

35. Django Does Not Forgive (1966)

95 min | Western

Peter returns home and finds out his sister committed suicide because a man from the Mounted Police seduced and left her. Peter starts searching for him at Fort Pit, to take his revenge.

Director: Julio Buchs | Stars: Hugo Blanco, John Clark, Gustavo Rojo, Susana Campos

Votes: 50

36. The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)

Passed | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Western

The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."

Director: Clyde Bruckman | Stars: W.C. Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler, Richard Cramer

Votes: 1,896

37. The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)

112 min | Drama

A portrayal of the lives of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak. Based on the journals of 1920s Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen.

Directors: Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Pakak Innuksuk, Leah Angutimarik, Neeve Irngaut, Natar Ungalaaq

Votes: 385

38. Divided Loyalties (1990)

102 min | Biography

Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nation. During the time of the American Revolution, while Britain faces full scale ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Denis Lacroix, Chris Wiggins, Jack Langedijk, Robert Bidaman

Votes: 51

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. The Shaman's Source (1990)

84 min | Drama

Three Ojibway Natives work to find a mystical spring before someone else comes and claims it.

Director: Robert Bouvier | Stars: Billy Merasty, Vanessa Dylyn, Eric Schweig, Jim Kewakundo

Votes: 24

41. Once in a Blue Moon (1995)

PG | 96 min | Family, Adventure, Fantasy

Late-1960s suburban Canadian children work on building a rocket vessel, with the intention of delivering one or two neighborhood children to the moon, whilst dealing with social issues of the coming-of-age, orphan-hood and family veins.

Director: Philip Spink | Stars: Cody Serpa, Simon Baker, Deanna Milligan, Mike MacDonald

Votes: 180

42. Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974)

58 min | Documentary

Since times predating agriculture, Cree First Nations people have gone to the bush of the James Bay and Ungava Bay area to hunt.

Directors: Tony Ianzelo, Boyce Richardson | Stars: Boyce Richardson, Sam Blacksmith, Ronnie Jolly, Glen Speers

Votes: 27

43. Call of the Yukon (1938)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.

Directors: B. Reeves Eason, John T. Coyle | Stars: Richard Arlen, Beverly Roberts, Lyle Talbot, Mala

Votes: 156

44. 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

45. Romance Road (1938)

Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Adventure, Musical

A RCMP sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappers in the rugged Northwest Territory of Canada.

Director: Bobby Connolly | Stars: Walter Cassel, Anne Nagel, Craig Reynolds, Linda Perry

Votes: 225

46. 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, Joel Oulette, Joshua Odjick

47. 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

48. Tomahawk (1957– )

30 min | Adventure, Family, History

The adventures of the French explorer and fur trader, Pierre Esprit Radisson.

Stars: Jacques Godin, René Caron, Roland Lepage, Lionel Villeneuve

Votes: 17

49. Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa: The People Go On (2003)

70 min | Documentary

Exploring the significance of land, memory and knowledge in Kainai life, the film focuses on the return of the Kainai's belongings, which had been collected by Europeans during colonial times.

Director: Loretta Todd | Stars: Amethyst First Rider, Nadine Tailfeathers, Garret Tailfeathers, Cammie Fox

50. Run, Broken Yet Brave (2009)

93 min | Drama, Family

RUN, is the story of Ashley, a sixteen-year old teenager with a chip on her shoulder. She is sent by her mom to spend a month of her summer holidays with her grandparents on the family farm... See full summary »

Director: Tom Simes | Stars: Ariel Yurach, Joseph Naytowhow, Julie Janzen, Krystle Pederson

Votes: 29