Kainai (1973)
• January 1st, 1973 • 0h 27min
Documentary
Overview
On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western plains, the Bloods live on a 1 300-square-kilometer reserve. Many have lacked gainful employment and now pin their hopes on a pre-fab factory they have built. Will the production line and work and wages fit into their cultural pattern of life? The film shows how it is working and what the owners themselves say about their venture.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Cree Hunters of Mistassini
Released on: 1974-01-01
Documentary
An NFB crew filmed a group of three families, Cree hunters from Mistassini. Since times predating ag...
The Lost Children
Released on: 2024-11-13
Documentary
After a plane crash, four indigenous children fight to survive in the Colombian Amazon using ancestr...
Foster Child
Released on: 1987-03-08
Documentary
Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to h...
Megacities
Released on: 1998-08-12
Documentary
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
Released on: 1895-03-22
History, Documentary
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
The Secret World of Plants
Released on: 2003-01-01
Documentary
The secret world of plants gets us closer to these motionless and quiet creatures, so attractive and...
LaDonna Harris: Indian 101
Released on: 2014-03-29
Documentary
A documentary film about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native polit...
Manufactured Landscapes
Released on: 2006-09-09
Documentary
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edw...
The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims
Released on: 1975-01-01
Documentary
"A documentary film which looks at the issue of British Columbia Native land claims and how the abor...
Hollywood's Greatest Trick
Released on: 2017-02-22
Documentary
The video is accompanied by a richly detailed article that adds more depth to the documentary. If th...
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger
Released on: 2019-09-10
Documentary
The story of a young boy forced to spend all five years of his short life in hospital while the fede...
There's Something in the Water
Released on: 2019-09-06
Documentary
Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his ho...
Now Is the Time
Released on: 2019-09-06
Documentary
When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the firs...
Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory
Released on: 2009-01-01
Documentary
Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory started as an investigation of the link between politics and ...
Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance
Released on: 2015-10-01
Documentary
The conflict over forestry operations on Lyell Island in 1985 was a major milestone in the history o...
Our People Will Be Healed
Released on: 2017-09-07
Documentary
Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decoloniza...
WINHANGANHA
Released on: 2023-11-10
Documentary, History
WINHANGANHA (Wiradjuri language: Remember, know, think) - is a lyrical journey of archival footage a...
Trick or Treaty?
Released on: 2014-09-04
Documentary
Legendary Canadian documentarian Alanis Obomsawin digs into the tangled history of Treaty 9 — the in...
The Cost of Cobalt
Released on: 2021-03-31
Documentary
In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), babies are bein...
24 City
Released on: 2008-09-27
Drama, Documentary
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn do...