The Mountain (2015)
• October 3rd, 2015 • 1h 0min
Documentary
Overview
For hundreds of years, Taiwan has been under different colonial rules. From the Dutch, the Spanish, the Japanese, and nowadays Republic of China, each regime left their footprints on this island. Only the indigenous people of this island experienced of the process. They were given different names during different periods of colonisation and their cultures have been changed. Through the life of a Truku elder, we see the history of aboriginal recertification movement.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores
Released on: 2019-12-13
Documentary, History
The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan ...
Ka Ho‘ina: Going Home
Released on: 2014-11-07
Documentary
Ka Hoʻina documents members of Hui Mālama I Nā Kūpuna O Hawaiʻi Nei's final repatriation of over 140...
Button Blanket
Released on: 2009-10-22
Documentary
This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the pe...
Gardens of the Orient
Released on: 1936-01-01
Documentary
This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited work...
The Rumba Kings
Released on: 2021-05-06
Documentary, History, Music
In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...
Under the Cloud
Released on: 2023-08-30
Documentary
An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste di...
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...
Shellmound
Released on: 2004-09-19
Documentary, History
“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic c...
Tawai: A Voice from the Forest
Released on: 2017-09-29
Documentary
Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...
Timuti
Released on: 2012-01-01
Documentary
In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they c...
Columbus Didn't Discover Us
Released on: 1992-05-16
Documentary
The historic gathering of three hundred indigenous activists from North, South and Central America w...
Dawn of the Damned
Released on: 1965-07-05
Documentary, History, Drama
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...
Monica in the South Seas
Released on: 2023-11-03
Documentary
Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...
Hacking at Leaves
Released on: 2024-04-06
Documentary, History
Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts ...
Statues Also Die
Released on: 1953-05-01
Documentary
Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is d...
Broken Rainbow
Released on: 1985-05-05
Documentary, History
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
Wood Mountain Poems
Released on: 1978-01-01
Documentary
In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south c...
These Are My People...
Released on: 1969-10-20
Documentary
This documentary short is the first film made by an all-Aboriginal film crew, training under the NFB...