A
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Alonso's Dream - A contemplative and critical look at the impact the Zapatista uprising and paramilitary violence have had on the Mayan people.
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Alpaca Breeders of Chimboya - Depicts the lives of Indian peasants of Chimboya, a small community high in the Andes whose economy is based on the marketing of Alpaca fleece.
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As Long as the Rivers Flow - A series of five films which document the epic struggle of Canada's Native People.
B
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Between Midnight and the Rooster's Crow - Traveling along the cross-Andes route of an oil pipeline in Ecuador, a case study of the troubling connections between corporations, Western consumption, and the 3rd World.
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Blowing Up Paradise - The story of thirty years of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific, including the lethal bombing of the "Rainbow Warrior" — the Greenpeace ship sunk by the French Secret Service.
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Bush Mechanics - This Aboriginal-produced TV series follows the exploits of the Bush Mechanics. Traveling through the Australian outback, they solve multiple car problems with inventive bush repair techniques to overcome various challenges.
C
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Can't Do It In Europe - Some people travel to Bolivia to go down the dangerous silver mines, to see the medieval work conditions. Are they crawling through the contaminated tunnels to learn about a foreign culture, or to escape boredom?
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Colonists for a Day - A fascinating account of Australia's colonization of Papua New Guinea.
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Compadre - Thirty years after meeting Daniel Barrientos and his family in Lima, Peru, where they eked out survival scavenging in garbage dumps, the filmmaker returns, and re-enters their lives.
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Cracks in the Mask - A Torres Strait Islander sets out on a voyage of discovery to the great museums of Europe where his cultural heritage now lies.
D
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The Dreamers of Arnhem Land - The two Aboriginal elders who set out to save their community from cultural extinction by combining traditional knowledge and contemporary scientific expertise.
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Dreamings - Showing Aboriginal artists at work in their native environments, DREAMINGS explores the meaning and mystical significance behind these evocative works.
F
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Fire in the Andes - Tells the story of the ongoing conflict in Peru which, to date, has left over 10,000 dead or "disappeared."
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Five Centuries Later - Examines the current status of Central American aboriginal civilizations, five hundred years after they were "conquered" by European invaders.
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Flooding Job's Garden - Behind the scenes of the highly controversial James Bay Hydro-Quebec power plant project.
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From Opium to Chrysanthemums - The Hmong, in Southeast Asia and America - struggling to preserve essential aspects of their culture, while coping with the enormous changes forced upon them.
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G
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Give Us Our Skeletons! - Niillas Somby, a Sami, an ethnic group which inhabits northern Scandinavia, is fighting the Norwegian authorities, trying to compel them to release the skull of a rebellious ancestor.
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Guambianos - The life of the Guambiano Indians of Colombia.
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Guatemala: A Journey to the End of Memories - Guatemalan refugees comment on the "new" Guatemala of army-built "model villages" and "reeducation camps."
H
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Human Faces Behind the Rain Forest - Documents the testimonies of peasants and indigenous peoples fighting against the social chaos caused by illicit drugs in Colombia.
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Hunters at the Ice Front - A peek at a modern approach to an ancient Inuit tradition - narwhale hunting in Greenland.
I
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An Island Calling - A morally complex postcolonial tragedy, the story of a murder and of Fiji, a small country divided along ethnic and class lines.
L
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The Learning Path - The stories of three native women who are making control of education an important issues in today's native communities.
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Lucanamarca - In the Peruvian Andes, in the town of Lucanamarca, old wounds are re-opened when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrives to investigate a massacre from 20 years ago.
M
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Mabo - Life of an Island Man - Traces the story of the life of an extraordinary man, one whose struggle for land rights, and his remarkable life in general, had a profound effect on indigenous rights in Australia.
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A Mayan Trilogy: Life, Death & Migration - Now on one DVD, Olivia Carrescia's three films on the Mayan Indians of Guatemala preserve a record, and provide an acute observation on how the indigenous culture has been affected by, yet survived, that country's tumultuous history.
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Microchip Al Chip - The devastation of Chilean forests to manufacture paper.
N
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No Silence In This Court - The story of the Open Court, a popular, alternative legal system in the Indian state of Gujarat.
O
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Onward Christian Soldiers - Analyzes the growing impact of U.S. based broadcast evangelism in Latin America, long a stronghold of the Catholic church.
P
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The Passion of María Elena - Following the hit-and-run death of her son, Maria Elena, a young woman from Mexico's Raramuri community, embarks upon an eye-opening journey from grief to unexpected spiritual resolution.
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The Prize of the Pole - Robert Peary's quest to plant an American flag at the North Pole came with enormous, and sometimes unacknowledged, costs. Now his great-grandson wants to set the record straight.
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R
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Rapayan - High in the Andes mountains of Peru, above a small village that scarcely seemed to notice, archaeologists have found the ruins of an indigenous settlement that predates the Incas.
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Regopstaan's Dream - The last surviving South African Bushmen, and their fight to reclaim ancestral land in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park.
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The Return of Sara Baartman - After years of unsettling negotiation with France, South Africa finally welcomes home the remains of Sara Baartman in an historic event of repatriation.
S
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Sacred Soil - The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes up to 1,000 bodies a year to identify them, and return the remains to their families.
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Scars of Memory - An oral history of the 1932 massacre of 10,000 El Salvadorans, a trauma that has resonated through six decades of military rule, until the 1992 peace accords ended a brutal, 12-year civil war.
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Seals, Our Daily Bread - A visit with a seal hunting family in Greenland.
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Since the Company Came - In the Solomon Islands extensive logging forces the Haporai people to confront social, cultural and ecological disintegration.
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Starting Fire with Gunpowder - Chronicles the origins and achievements of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), a model for aboriginal broadcasters the world over.
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Still, The Children Are Here - A portrait of the Garo people of India, for whom cultivating rice is a way of life and worship, this film not only describes an indigenous culture, but the essential nature of humanity. Produced by Mira Nair.
T
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Thomson of Arnhem Land - The story of Donald Thomson, a young anthropologist who devoted his life to fighting for Aboriginal rights.
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Tikinagan - Reveals the challenges faced by a native run child care agency in northwestern Ontario.
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Time Immemorial - Presents the case of the Nisga tribe in their long fight for aboriginal rights in British Columbia.
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Todos Santos Cuchumatan: Report from a Guatemalan Village - This film provides an intimate look at everyday life in Todos Santos, a village in Guatemala's highlands, before the violence of the 1980s.
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Tree Of Survival - Although the drought and starvation suffered by the people on the borders of the Sahara no longer make headlines, the ever-encroaching dunes refuse to go away.
W
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Winds of Memory - Filmed over three years, WINDS OF MEMORY reveals Mayan life and culture in Guatemala today, five centuries after the "discovery" of America.
Y
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Ya Basta! - The Indians of Chiapas speak about their situation.
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