Adam Beach
Publisher
Unobstructed View
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
Director Bruce McDonald explores living in a northern Ontario native reservation. This Canadian drama based on a book by W.P. Kinsella, examines the tension between Native Canadians and Anglos in Canada from a Native perspective. Silas Crow, who lives on a Northern Ontario reserve, wants to take a mechanic's course in Toronto with his friend Frank Fencepost. But before he can enroll, the teen must write a short narrative describing his home. The film...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of thier identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
7) Hostiles
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
In this terrifying, action-fueled film based on the Marvel comic series, five young people who demonstrate special powers are brought to a secret institution to undergo treatments they are told will cure them of the dangers of their powers. Invited by Dr. Cecilia Reyes to share their stories about when their powers first manifested, the five ₁patients₂ come to understand that they are in a class of people called mutants, who have historically...
Formats
Description
Task force X has been in constant service, but also must constantly recruit new members as the Suicide Squad lives up to its name. For a mission on the island of Corto Maltese, only Waller knows what Colonel Flag and his cons from Belle Reve will face, but team is in for a surprise -- and an enemy -- of epic proportions.
Publisher
Allegro Media Group
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In shock and denial over his marine father's death in combat, high school lacrosse star Conor Sullivan starts acting out in self destructive ways until he's kicked off the team and sent to a wilderness lacrosse camp run by his dad's combat buddy. Strengthened by the support and understanding of his newfound love, and through a deep understanding of the game and its Native American roots, he opens his eyes to the true meaning of sportsmanship, love,...
12) Coyote waits
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.
13) Smoke signals
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Description
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
14) The stranger
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
They took his job, his family, and his memory. Now this one man is taking it all back, one body at a time. He is a man with no name, no memory, and absolutely nothing left to lose. But when he finds himself hunted by both the FBI and the Russian mob, this amnesiac decides to fight back.
15) Windtalkers
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
16) Comanche moon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Description
By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
18) The unhealer
Publisher
Shout! Factory LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When a single mom witnesses a faith healer perform a miracle, she hires him to lay hands on her son with a eating disorder. The ritual works, and Kelly gains unexpected supernatural powers: any pain inflicted on him is instead felt by his aggressor. Having been tormented by bullies his entire life, Kelly's rage takes him on a murderous revenge spree and the horror escalates -- no one around him is safe, not even the girl he loves.
19) Ice soldiers
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Buried beneath the Arctic ice since the Cold War, genetically modified Soviet soldiers have been rediscovered, reactivated and are ready to unleash devastating destruction. One scientist will try to stop the carnage before they complete their terrifying, top-secret mission.
20) A thief of time
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Two Navajo policemen search for the truth behind the disappearance of an anthropologist suspected of selling ancient Indian artifacts on the black market, delving into the underworld of illegal archaeological excavations and Navajo superstition and lore.