COLLECTION: 11 Essential Native American Films You Can Watch Online Right Now
From the Indian Country Today Media Network (short summaries and links pulled from article)...
1. Shouting Secrets:iTunes.
Wesley, a young, successful novelist, long ago left Arizona and the San Carlos Apache Reservation in his rear view mirror.
2. Empire of Dirt:Vimeo On Demand.
A young single First Nations mother struggling to bridge the generation gap with her daughter Peeka and her mother Minerva.
3. This May Be the Last Time:Google Play, YouTube, iTunes.
Director Sterlin Harjo heard a story hundreds of times growing up; the story of when his grandfather disappeared. Pete Harjo mysteriously went missing in 1962 after his car crashed on a rural bridge in Sasakwa, Oklahoma.
4. Road to Paloma:Google Play, Amazon, VUDU.
Native American protagonist Wolf is on the run after avenging his mother's murder. As he flees across the desolate American West on his motorcycle, he'll discover that justice has a cost—Wolf's search for redemption will reveal secrets and take him on a journey where the roads have some very unexpected turns.
5. The Lesser Blessed:iTunes, VUDU; Amazon.
Through the eyes of Larry Sole, a First Nation teenager filled with bravado and angst, fragile and yet angry, seeking clarity clouded by confusion, seeking to belong without belonging, comes the story of three unlikely friends isolated in a small rural town discovering what they can of life and love amid racial tensions and the recklessness of youth, in a world clouded by a dark mystery from his past.
6. Rhymes for Young Ghouls:VUDU; iTunes (Canada).
Red Crow Mi'g Maq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that meansimprisonment at St. Dymphna's.
7. The Activist:iTunes, Google Play.
A political thriller set during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activist are arrested and maintain in custody in a sheriff's office. They will meet a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie star who is also an activist.
8. The Cherokee Word for Water:CW4W.com website; iTunes, coming soon.
Set in the early 1980s, The Cherokee Word For Water begins with the return of Wilma Mankiller to her rural Oklahoma Cherokee community where many houses lack running water and others are little more than shacks.
9. A Good Day to Die: Netflix, iTunes, VUDU.
Dennis Banks co-founded the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) in 1968 to call attention to the plight of urban Indians in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
10. On the Ice:Netflix, iTunes, VUDU.
Two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. Early one morning, on a seal hunt with another teenager, an argument between the three boys quickly escalates into a tragic accident.
11. Tiger Eyes:Google Play.
(Note: Strictly speaking, Tiger Eyesisn't a "Native American film" in the same sense as the others listed here, as its protagonist, screenwriters and director were all non-Native. But we include it in this list because of the critically-lauded performance by Tatanka Means, which was found award-worthy by Native film festivals.)
Forced by her grieving mother to move from her home in Atlantic City to the strange “atom bomb” town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, Davey (Willa Holland) no longer knows who to be or how to fit in.
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