When the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family glimpsed a brighter future. Having researched hemp as a sustainable crop that would grow in the inhospitable soil of the South Dakota Badlands, the White Plumes envisioned a new economy that would shrink the 85% unemployment rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation. They never dreamed they would find themselves swept up in a struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights, and common sense.

An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundati...

A young Native American man on his way to visit his uncle learns about his Navajo heritage by attend...

Waters’ LIFT project, ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek), is the fourth of a quartet of films, and focu...

An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwes...

This film presents a series of extemporaneous interviews with teenagers and young adults who have ta...

This 1971 color anti-drug use and abuse film was produced by Concept Films and directed by Brian Kel...

The documentary adresses the meaning of music and the musical diversity present in Umbanda (a Brazil...

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

Documentary about Tommy Chong's federal prosecution under the Bush administration for selling bongs ...

Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound -- yet hidden -- Indige...

The two-channel video installation captures scenes from the Manila metropolitan area, home to over 1...

An insider's documentary describing the CIA's use of Mena, Arkansas as a staging area for covert act...

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...
Essence of Healing is a documentary exploring the life journeys of 14 American Indian nurses - their...

The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord...

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ ...

The Culture High tears into the very fibre of the modern day marijuana debate to reveal the truth be...

This documentary offers a deep, candid, and historical look at the Christian experience of America's...

On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, tw...

An intimate and thrilling portrait of a young Siksika woman and the deep bonds between her father an...