Top 100 Native American Reservation movies
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Frozen River (2008)
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After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.
Imprint (2007)
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Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
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Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Rocks at Whiskey Trench (2000)
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The fourth film in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Oka crisis uses a single, shameful incident as a lens through which to examine the region's long history of prejudice and injustice against the Mohawk population.
Smoke Signals (1998)
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Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold's remains.
Dance Me Outside (1995)
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Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
Shadowhunter (1993)
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An L.A. cop tracks down a seemingly mystic murderer on an Indian reservation.
Thunderheart (1992)
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An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage.
The Dark Wind (1991)
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An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.
When the Legends Die (1972)
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An elderly rodeo rider becomes mentor to a young man attempting to make his own name in the business.
Run, Simon, Run (1970)
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A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
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While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive manhunt, led by Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper.
The Broken Star (1956)
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A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican's murder.
The Broken Star (1956)
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A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican's murder.
The Broken Star (1956)
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A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican's murder.
The White Squaw (1956)
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A Swedish settler (David Brian) starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.