Residential School Movies

  • 2018
    Indian Horse

    Indian Horse

    Indian Horse

    72018HD

    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...

    Indian Horse
  • 2021
    V.C. Andrews' Pearl in the Mist

    V.C. Andrews' Pearl in the Mist

    V.C. Andrews' Pearl in the Mist

    7.42021HD

    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...

    V.C. Andrews' Pearl in the Mist
  • 2023
    Bones of Crows

    Bones of Crows

    Bones of Crows

    7.72023HD

    Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the...

    Bones of Crows
  • 2013
    Rhymes for Young Ghouls

    Rhymes for Young Ghouls

    Rhymes for Young Ghouls

    6.82013HD

    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...

    Rhymes for Young Ghouls
  • 2022
    Lakota Nation vs. United States

    Lakota Nation vs. United States

    Lakota Nation vs. United States

    22022HD

    Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to...

    Lakota Nation vs. United States
  • 2022
    Bill Reid Remembers

    Bill Reid Remembers

    Bill Reid Remembers

    02022HD

    Renowned Haida artist Bill Reid shares his thoughts on artistry, activism and his deep affection for his homeland in this heartwarming tribute from...

    Bill Reid Remembers
  • 2017
    The Last Stop

    The Last Stop

    The Last Stop

    7.82017HD

    The Élan School was a for-profit, residential behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school located deep within the woods of...

    The Last Stop
  • 2021
    Home from School: The Children of Carlisle

    Home from School: The Children of Carlisle

    Home from School: The Children of Carlisle

    02021HD

    “Kill the Indian to save the man” was the catchphrase of The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a boarding school opened in Pennsylvania...

    Home from School: The Children of Carlisle
  • 2021
    I am the Warrior: A Residential School Story

    I am the Warrior: A Residential School Story

    I am the Warrior: A Residential School Story

    02021HD

    "I Am the Warrior: A Residential School Story" depicts the struggling relationships between a mother and daughter fox after the mother has suffered...

    I am the Warrior: A Residential School Story
  • 1971
    Christmas at Moose Factory

    Christmas at Moose Factory

    Christmas at Moose Factory

    61971HD

    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...

    Christmas at Moose Factory
  • 2010
    Pudana: Last of the Line

    Pudana: Last of the Line

    Pudana: Last of the Line

    62010HD

    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...

    Pudana: Last of the Line
  • 2023
    Double M Country

    Double M Country

    Double M Country

    02023HD

    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,...

    Double M Country
  • 2013
    A Common Experience

    A Common Experience

    A Common Experience

    02013HD

    A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal...

    A Common Experience
  • 1992
    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    01992HD

    This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.

    Surviving Columbus
  • 2012
    We Were Children

    We Were Children

    We Were Children

    7.52012HD

    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...

    We Were Children
  • 2009
    Savage

    Savage

    Savage

    02009HD

    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...

    Savage
  • 1962
    The Eyes of Children

    The Eyes of Children

    The Eyes of Children

    01962HD

    Christmastime at the Roman Catholic-run Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.

    The Eyes of Children
  • 2017
    Consume

    Consume

    Consume

    02017HD

    Residential school survivor Jacob struggles to hang onto his family as his demons threaten to manifest.

    Consume
  • 2017
    Holy Angels

    Holy Angels

    Holy Angels

    02017HD

    Documentary about the Holy Angels Residential School in Alberta, where hundreds of First Nations children were imprisoned.

    Holy Angels
  • 2015
    Clouds of Autumn

    Clouds of Autumn

    Clouds of Autumn

    82015HD

    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...

    Clouds of Autumn