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3) Skins
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Explores the bond between two brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
5) Scape
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Based on Rudyard Kipling's story: 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, takes place in the early 1800s on the Oregon Trail. Indians attack Morrowbie's caravan and he becomes separated from his wife. He walks alone through the open frontier, searching for her, when he wanders into a remote colony in the forest for the mentally ill. With the fate of his wife looming, Morrowbie must attempt the impossible, escape.
6) Yellow Rock
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Five men ride into the eerie town of Yellow Rock, hoping to rescue a family member and his lost boy. They must fight wild animals, the elements, and eventually each other, as the dangerous journey unfolds.
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A hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spirit of James Welch's classic 1974 novel of Native American life. Shot in the badlands of Montana, directors Alex and Andrew Smith have crafted a gorgeous heartbreaker of a movie, a revisionist Western where the Indians are the Cowboys, set to high lonesome soundtrack by Heartless Bastards that includes new songs.
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An eye-opening account of what it is like to be a vulnerable teenager in the modern world. Through the eyes of Larry Sole, a First Nation teenager filled with bravado and angst, comes the story of three unlikely friends isolated in a small rural town discovering what they can of life and love and racial tensions, in a world by a dark mystery from his past.
13) Jimmy P
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Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France during WWII, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas, an institution specializing in mental illness. Although he does not suffer any psychological causes for his painful symptoms, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture....
14) Spirit rider
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After years in foster homes, Jesse Three Bears returns to live on a Blackfoot reservation with his grandfather whom he hardly knows, and finds his anger and resentment being overcome by the gift of a wild mare.
15) Flaming star
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"In the years after the Civil War, western Texas is an uneasy meeting ground of two cultures: one white, the other Native-American. When fighting breaks out between the settlers and natives, Pacer Burton (Elvis Presley), the son of a white rancher (John McIntire), is pulled into the deadly violence despite his peacemaking efforts"--Container.
16) Diplomaniacs
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The comedy team of Wheeler and Woolsey are at it again in this screwball comedy. Willy Nilly (Wheeler) and Hercules Glub (Woolsey) are partners who own a barbershop. By getting Hercules' instructions wrong, Willy Nilly ends up locating their business on an Oklahoma Indian reservation where only one resident has facial hair! Whisked away by the oil-rich Oopadoop Indians, the pair are offered a million dollars by the chief of the tribe to represent...
17) Powwow highway
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Buddy Red Bow, an activist battling to keep his Cheyenne tribe on their reservation and financially solvent, and Philbert Bono, a spiritual man who is guided by visions, go to the rescue when Buddy's sister is framed and jailed in New Mexico.
18) Into the West
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Two families--one of settlers and one of Native Americans--are united by marriage, even as conflict between their two sides increases.
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Collection of films related to the Native American experience. Great Indian leaders & nations presents true stories of Chief Joseph, Crazy Horse, Quanah Parker, Geronimo, and the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne tribes. Sacagawea offers a dramatic re-enactment of the Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of Sacagwea. Spirit bear is the insipring coming of age true story of the boywho saved the endangered Spirit Bears. The sign of the beaver is...
20) Broken arrow
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Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. When a B-2 Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run, the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two "broken arrows." But the situation spins out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to be part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot.
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