Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. It focuses particularly on a system of debt peonage known locally as ‘habilito’. This system is used throughout the Bolivian lowlands, and much of the rest of the Amazon basin, to secure labor in remote areas.
Critical investigation of The World Bank and IMF. Too hot for PBS, but prime time TV everywhere else...

A personal, scientific, mystical exploration of Amazonian curanderismo, focus on Ayahuasca and Maste...

The US detonated 67 nuclear weapons over the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Cold Wa...

Profile of the Crow Indian Mission in Lodge Grass, Montana.

On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature t...
During the summer of 2022, eight teenagers and young adults from Kuujjuaq, Kangiqsualujjuaq and Kang...

In 1879, Bolivia lost its access to the sea in a war. When I was a child I did not understand how we...

An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thomps...

A bare-knuckled critique of corporate America told through the powerful true story of a toxic CEO wh...

Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow ...

Samuel Grey Horse, an Indigenous equestrian from Austin, Texas, is known for rescuing horses from be...

Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers Phil...

As a sea nomad, Hook grew up with the ocean as his universe. Now he must make a courageous voyage to...

An NFB crew filmed a group of three families, Cree hunters from Mistassini. Since times predating ag...

The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to the earth. For Winona ...

Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to h...
A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous communit...

The first mountains that the Amsterdam-based Colombian artist and filmmaker Ana Bravo Pérez saw in t...

“Te Pito o Te Henua” (The Navel of the World) tells the story of the community behind Rapa Nui’s lar...