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1. Echo (2023–2024)
TV-MA | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Maya Lopez must face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots, and embrace the meaning of family and community if she ever hopes to move forward.
Stars: Alaqua Cox, Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene
Votes: 36,504
2. Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Family
A man learns he has a thirteen-year-old son who was raised in the jungle and brings the boy to New York City, turning his life upside down in the process.
Director: John Pasquin | Stars: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich
Votes: 25,904 | Gross: $59.93M
3. 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: 16,370
4. Pocahontas (I) (1995)
G | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.
Directors: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg | Stars: Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale, Joe Baker
Votes: 203,388 | Gross: $141.60M
5. 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: 90,007 | Gross: $12.71M
6. 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: 11,015 | Gross: $24.47M
7. A Man Called Horse (1970)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and aspires to become their leader.
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou
Votes: 9,372 | Gross: $1.94M
8. 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: 1,229 | Gross: $18.64M
9. The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
94 min | Drama, Music
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. ... See full summary »
Director: Claudia Llosa | Stars: Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Marino Ballón
Votes: 7,355 | Gross: $0.01M
10. Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Fictional chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.
Director: Xavier Koller | Stars: Adam Beach, Mandy Patinkin, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, Irene Bedard
Votes: 1,434 | Gross: $3.34M
11. 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: 4,165
12. 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: 1,004
13. Madeinusa (2006)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
14-year-old Madeinusa comes of age during the Easter festivities of her tiny, isolated village.
Director: Claudia Llosa | Stars: Magaly Solier, Carlos J. de la Torre, Yiliana Chong, Juan Ubaldo Huamán
Votes: 1,778
14. Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries (2002)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A veteran cop returns to his childhood Navajo reservation, where his urban investigation methods sometimes clash with his partner's traditional ones.
Stars: Wes Studi, Adam Beach, Alex Rice, Sheila Tousey
Votes: 152
15. Buffalo Dreams (2005 TV Movie)
G | 89 min | Family
Schoolboy Josh Townsend has to move again with his father, astrophysics researcher Dr. Nick Townsend, to a New Mexico small town. To escape the copy-boy job dad arranged, Josh volunteers ... See full summary »
Director: David Jackson | Stars: Reiley McClendon, Simon Baker, George Newbern, Jane Sibbett
Votes: 609
16. Destiny River (2010–2011)
40 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A man returns to his birthplace, the area surrounding the Araguaia river, unaware of an Indian curse targeting him, gathered on his family several years before.
Stars: Milena Toscano, Murilo Rosa, Cleo, Emílio Orciollo Netto
Votes: 56
17. The Red Man's View
137 min | Action, Adventure, Drama | Pre-production
A film about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'Free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the American Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters, and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of '... See full summary »
Director: Thomas R. Bond II | Stars: Zahn McClarnon, Booboo Stewart, Crystle Lightning, Daniel Baldwin
18. The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
Not Rated | 115 min | Adventure, Drama
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Timothy Spall, Hugo Weaving, Cathy Tyson
Votes: 1,358
19. Crude (2009)
Unrated | 105 min | Documentary
The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Dan Ashley, Pablo Fajardo, Kent Robertson, German Yanez
Votes: 868 | Gross: $0.17M
20. Hans Staden (1999)
92 min | Biography, Drama, History
On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to ... See full summary »
Director: Luís Alberto Pereira | Stars: Carlos Evelyn, Ariana Messias, Darci Figueiredo, Beto Simas
Votes: 376
21. Fire Song (2015)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
Shane, a gay Anishnabe teenager in Northern Ontario, is struggling to support his family in the aftermath of his sister's suicide. If he fails, he will be forced to choose between his family's home and his own future.
Director: Adam Garnet Jones | Stars: Andrew Martin, Jennifer Podemski, Harley Legarde, Mary Galloway
Votes: 249
22. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000)
R | 93 min | Documentary, Adventure, Romance
A retired gay anthropologist revisits the native cultures he studied in his youth.
Directors: David Shapiro, Laurie Gwen Shapiro | Stars: Tobias Schneebaum, Norman Mailer, Michael Rockefeller
Votes: 850 | Gross: $0.35M
23. 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
24. Birdwatchers (2008)
Unrated | 104 min | Drama
When a tribe of indigenous Guarani Indians attempts to re-inhabit their ancestral land, which lies on the border of a wealthy landowner's fields, tensions escalate.
Director: Marco Bechis | Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, Chiara Caselli, Pedro Abrísio da Silva
Votes: 922
25. Blood of the Condor (1969)
70 min | Crime, Drama
The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
Director: Jorge Sanjinés | Stars: Marcelino Yanahuaya, Benedicta Mendoza, Vicente Verneros Salinas, Danielle Caillet
Votes: 626
26. Pocahontas: Princess of the American Indians (1997)
TV-Y7 | Animation, Action, Adventure
In her journey, Pocahontas and her spiritual companion Hopi Ho, get the chance to become acquainted with the different ways of living of the different American Indian tribes that they visit.
Stars: Teresa Pascarelli, Francis Pardeilhan, Gregory Snegoff, Emanuela Pacotto
Votes: 53
27. Brave New Land (2000)
104 min | Drama, War
A young Portuguese cartographer in the 18th century finds new forms of love, war and a wild new world in an expedition into South American heart.
Director: Lúcia Murat | Stars: Diogo Infante, Floriano Peixoto, Luciana Rigueira, Leonardo Villar
Votes: 328
28. We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân (2010)
PG | 82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
WE STILL LIVE HERE: As Nutayunean tells the amazing story of the return of the Wampanoag language, the first time a language with no Native speakers has been revived in this country. Four ... See full summary »
Director: Anne Makepeace | Stars: Jason Baird, Jessie Baird, Mae Alice Baird, Eva Blake
Votes: 59
29. Lola Casanova (1949)
91 min | Adventure, Drama
Director: Matilde Landeta | Stars: Meche Barba, Isabela Corona, Enrique Cancino, Armando Silvestre
Votes: 23
30. Masters of the Pacific Coast: The Tribes of the American Northwest (2016– )
59 min | Documentary, History
Archaeologist Dr Jago Cooper travels along the 1,400 mile coastline of Northwest America to explore how local tribes understanding of their environment allowed them to develop a resilient culture.
Star: Jago Cooper
Votes: 21
31. A Lenda de Ubirajara (1975)
90 min | Drama
In order to earn a warrior name, the son of Araguaia chief wanders the forest, falls in love with a girl from the Tocantins tribe, and defeats their bravest warrior. When his true identity ... See full summary »
Director: André Luiz Oliveira | Stars: Tatau, Taíse Costa, Roberto Bonfim, Ana Maria Miranda
Votes: 35
32. Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within (2007)
79 min | Documentary, History
A documentary which invites the viewer to rediscover an enchanted cosmos in the modern world by awakening to the divine within.
Directors: Rod Mann, Nikos Katsaounis, Kevin Kohley | Stars: Rick Doblin, David S. Eindl-Ra, Stanislav Grof, Barbara Marx Hubbard
Votes: 66
33. Can You Imagine? (1936)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short
This short shows various curiosities of people and nature across the United States, in the style of the "Believe It or Not" series. Among the dozen subjects are Milwaukee's Monkey Island; a... See full summary »
Stars: Ray Saunders, William Shelton, Amos Emmanuel Kubick, Dickie McCollin
Votes: 50
34. Seasoned with Spirit (2006– )
Reality-TV
Emmy Award winning 5 episode PBS series hosted by acclaimed Potawatomi chef Loretta Barrett Oden traveling to diverse Native American communities to explore their culture and foodways. From... See full summary »
Star: Loretta Barrett Oden
35. Immokalee U.S.A. (2008)
Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary
Every season, tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida where they plant and harvest the food that Americans consume. A vast majority of... See full summary »
Director: Georg Koszulinski
Votes: 36
36. Those Who Come, Will Hear (2018)
77 min | Documentary
"Those Who Come, Will Hear" proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous languages of Quebec. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung tongues through ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Plouffe | Stars: Margie Hoff, Jean-Paul Echaquan, Joseph Guanish, Philip Einish
Votes: 10
37. If Only I Were an Indian... (1995)
81 min | Documentary
Three Native Americans travel to the Czech Republic to visit residents there who are imitating traditional Native American tribal ways.
Director: John Paskievich | Star: John Paskievich
Votes: 25
38. Sayariy (1995)
80 min | Documentary, Mystery
Director: Mela Márquez | Stars: Gabriel Charalle, Félix Vargas, Gabriel Charale Adia, Félix Zúñiga Vargas
Votes: 14
39. Our Totem is the Raven (1972)
22 min | Short, Drama
Fifteen-year-old David is a typical teenager with a penchant for mischief. He has little interest in his cultural heritage. His grandfather takes him to the rivers, forest, and seashore of ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Preuss | Stars: Chief Dan George, Loren Teeias Halliday, Robin Stiffarm, Al Doney
40. Glimpses of Guatemala (1946)
Approved | 8 min | Documentary, Short
We begin at the sleepy port town of Livingstone, then journey up the Rio Dulce past forests of chicle. We stop to watch men tap the trees, harvest the sap, and load the product onto small ... See full summary »
Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 58
41. Pastriology (2013)
100 min | Documentary
Five years in the making, filmed in a dozen countries, PASTRIOLOGY runs the full range from the pleasures and dangers of overeating to the tragedies of world hunger.
Director: Alexis Krasilovsky | Stars: Papa Abuelo, Anyayya, Cello Barry, Lagache Benoit
42. The River of the Kukamas (2018)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Filmed on the river during it's widest state at the end of the rain season, we take a tranquil journey through the waters and history of Kukama people, who inhabit the Amazon basin in Peru.
Director: Nika Belianina | Star: Pablo Taricuarima Pinedo
43. Weaving (1919)
60 min | Documentary
The 1919 Paramount-Bray Pictograph subject shows an example of the delicate weaving of ancient Peruvians, as well as different looms from other cultures around the world.
45. Xingu: 50 años (2011)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Director: André Michiles | Stars: Kumaré Ikpeng, Carmen Junqueira, Makupá Kaiabi, Pikuruk Kaiabi
46. Mémoires de la terre (2002)
90 min | Documentary, History
Memories of Earth explores the Haida people, who for over 10,000 years have inhabited the Queen Charlotte Islands-or what they call Haida Gwaii ("Our Land") just off the coast of British ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Lemire | Star: Vlasta Vrana
Votes: 8
49. All Things Are Connected (2009)
16 min | Short
While European missionaries, mapmakers and mercenaries believed the Natural World existed entirely for human gain, the indigenous Indians of the Americas experienced nature as a sacred web ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Jenkins
50. Yaku Patsa (2010)
34 min | Short
Drifting upstream from 2000 meters above sea level to 5000 meters, 'World of Water' encounters people and their culture, stories, histories and beliefs against the impossibly lush and ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Brescia