Residential School Movies
- 2018
Indian Horse
Indian Horse72018HD
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey...
- 2021
V.C. Andrews' Pearl in the Mist
V.C. Andrews' Pearl in the Mist7.42021HD
Ruby is hopeful for a new start with her twin sister as they continue their education at an all-girl's boarding school. However, she soon endures...
- 2023
Bones of Crows
Bones of Crows7.72023HD
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the...
- 2013
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Rhymes for Young Ghouls6.82013HD
In 1976, a Mi'gMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are...
- 2022
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Lakota Nation vs. United States22022HD
Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to...
- 2022
Bill Reid Remembers
Bill Reid Remembers02022HD
Renowned Haida artist Bill Reid shares his thoughts on artistry, activism and his deep affection for his homeland in this heartwarming tribute from...
- 2017
The Last Stop
The Last Stop7.82017HD
The Élan School was a for-profit, residential behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school located deep within the woods of...
- 2021
Home from School: The Children of Carlisle
Home from School: The Children of Carlisle02021HD
“Kill the Indian to save the man” was the catchphrase of The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a boarding school opened in Pennsylvania...
- 2021
I am the Warrior: A Residential School Story
I am the Warrior: A Residential School Story02021HD
"I Am the Warrior: A Residential School Story" depicts the struggling relationships between a mother and daughter fox after the mother has suffered...
- 1971
Christmas at Moose Factory
Christmas at Moose Factory61971HD
A study of life at Christmastime in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely of...
- 2010
Pudana: Last of the Line
Pudana: Last of the Line62010HD
A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign...
- 2023
Double M Country
Double M Country02023HD
Carrie Davis was part of the child removal system near the end of the Sixties Scoop. With guidance from her uncle Emmett Sack and the community,...
- 2013
A Common Experience
A Common Experience02013HD
A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal...
- 1992
Surviving Columbus
Surviving Columbus01992HD
This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.
- 2012
We Were Children
We Were Children7.52012HD
For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of Canada's First Nations children were legally required to attend government-funded schools run by...
- 2009
Savage
Savage02009HD
On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in...
- 1962
The Eyes of Children
The Eyes of Children01962HD
Christmastime at the Roman Catholic-run Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.
- 2017
Consume
Consume02017HD
Residential school survivor Jacob struggles to hang onto his family as his demons threaten to manifest.
- 2017
Holy Angels
Holy Angels02017HD
Documentary about the Holy Angels Residential School in Alberta, where hundreds of First Nations children were imprisoned.
- 2015
Clouds of Autumn
Clouds of Autumn82015HD
The carefree childhood existence of an Indigenous brother and sister is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Residential School far from...