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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Camino Triste - The story of 125,000 Guatemalans who have fled their homeland for a precarious existence in southern Mexico.
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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 Devil's Miner - Two young brothers work long shifts in the Cerro Rico silver mines in Bolivia. They brave deadly conditions, hoping the "mountain devil's" generosity will allow them to earn enough money to attend school.
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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.
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. (new February, 2009)
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.
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. (new January, 2009)
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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. (new January, 2009)
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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.
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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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