Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon – with the aid of spears. Then Christian missionaries entered the thick rain forest and paved the way for an oil company. Nowadays many of the tribes are estranged as some want to benefit from the short-term money the company is offering while others fight to preserve their land, culture and independence under all circumstances.

Follows Haida artist Bill Reid, from British Columbia. A jeweller and wood carver, he works on a tra...

Faced with the advancement of eucalyptus plantations, a farmer and an indigenous community stand as ...

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

A series of suicides among youths who had to travel far from home to go to school, shocked their ind...

Inuit traditional face tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Director Ale...

Shot in Venezuela over a 30-year period, this documentary depicts the life and work of José Maria Ko...

The supermarket chains used to seem unbeatable, capturing the lion’s share of the grocery market. Bu...

50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the wor...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

Resident Orca tells the unfolding story of a captive whale’s fight for survival and freedom. After d...

The unusual story of Nose and Tina, 2 people in love. He is employed as a brakeman, she as a sex wor...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decoloniza...

Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahu...
The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art...

The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of...

Five Bolivian indigenous women share one goal: climbing the highest mountain in America.
This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), an...

A documentary about environment destruction in the Amazon and the tribes living there. Produced for ...

When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), held a ...

TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its ...