Native-American
see all genres ›For cinema's first half-century-plus, the conventions of the western genre cast American Indians as savages (just occasionally "noble" ones) who deserved their fates at the hands of cowboys, lawmen and other whites. But changing cultural perspectives have spurred rediscovery of more sympathetic depictions in that filmic past and recent decades have seen Native-Americans themselves create a growing, significant body of their own work.
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Genres / Drama / Ethnicity / Native-American
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Bisonhead
A family of Ponderai Native Americans embark on a controversial journey through Yellowstone to exercise their treaty hunting rights - glimpsing into the continued marginalization of indigenous life in the American West, and challenging our expectations of what it means to assert a tribal heritage...Watch Movie
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With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
A long-thought-lost film finally surfaces after being unseen for over eight decades. Created and copyrighted by Sunset Productions in 1925 but not released until June 15, 1927, this silent epic features the superior Native American actor Chief Yowlachie (performing here under...Watch Movie
