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1. Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Western
In 1909, when young Paiute Indian Willie Boy returns to his California reservation to be with Lola, whose father disapproves of him, a killing in self defense takes place, triggering a massive man hunt for Willie.
Director: Abraham Polonsky | Stars: Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark
Votes: 3,261 | Gross: $6.00M
2. Secrets of the Tribe (2010)
TV-14 | 98 min | Documentary
The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s and '70s, a steady stream of anthropologists ... See full summary »
Director: José Padilha | Stars: Robert Borofsky, Jesus Cardozo, Napoleon A. Chagnon, Marie Isabel Eguillor
Votes: 517
3. When the Mountains Tremble (1983)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary
A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with firsthand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.
Directors: Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates | Stars: Rigoberta Menchú, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 178
4. Rez Bomb (2008)
95 min | Romance, Thriller
Set on and around the poorest place in the USA, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Rez Bomb is a love story/thriller about a Lakota girl and a white guy who are very much in love but get ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Lewis Simpson | Stars: Amara Zaragoza, Trent Ford, Chris Robinson, Russell Means
Votes: 81
5. Pathfinder (2007)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means
Votes: 46,269 | Gross: $10.23M
6. Black Cloud (2004)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama
Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team.
Director: Ricky Schroder | Stars: Eddie Spears, Russell Means, Julia Jones, Tim McGraw
Votes: 548
7. Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World (1998) (V) (1998 Video)
G | 73 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Pocahontas sets off on a journey to England with Meeko, Flit, and Percy. Hearing rumors of John Smith's death, Pocahontas tries to prevent war and battle.
Directors: Tom Ellery, Bradley Raymond | Stars: Irene Bedard, Donal Gibson, Jim Cummings, Finola Hughes
Votes: 17,270
8. Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, History, Romance
Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance, Alan Hale Jr., Robert Clarke
Votes: 191
9. Pocahontas (I) (1995)
G | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.
Directors: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg | Stars: Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale, Joe Baker
Votes: 202,982 | Gross: $141.60M
10. Song of Hiawatha (1997)
PG | 120 min | Adventure, Drama
The legendary Ojibwa Chief is sent by the great spirit to lead his people.
Director: Jeffrey Shore | Stars: Graham Greene, Litefoot, Irene Bedard, Russell Means
Votes: 305
11. Windrunner (1994)
PG | 98 min | Family, Fantasy
A young man in high school moves with his mother to a town in the U.S. Southwest where his father is serving time in a penitentiary. There, he is discriminated against by his peers because ... See full summary »
Directors: William Clark, William Tannen | Stars: Jason Wiles, Russell Means, Margot Kidder, Amanda Peterson
Votes: 263
12. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
R | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig
Votes: 187,616 | Gross: $75.51M
13. Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Charles Abourezk, Dave Bald Eagle, Lawrence Bayne, Edgar Bear Runner
Votes: 331
14. Lakota Moon (1999 TV Movie)
85 min | Western
This movie depicts the life of a small Indian tribe, in a time shortly before the white men became a threat. In the focus of the story is the young Skywalker, who woos cute Morning Sun, but... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Cain | Stars: Richard Tyson, Rodney A. Grant, Barbara Carrera, Zahn McClarnon
Votes: 95
15. Mekko (2015)
87 min | Drama, Thriller
Mekko is an native American man who is released from prison. He served time for killing a cousin. Homeless, he learns that he must become a warrior to fight the "witch" preying on his people because they have lost their spirit.
Director: Sterlin Harjo | Stars: Wotko Long, Bronnson Tre Harjo, Jamie Loy, Scott Mason
Votes: 193
16. The Cherokee Word for Water (2013)
PG | 92 min | Drama
The work that led Wilma Mankiller to become the first modern female Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Directors: Tim Kelly, Charlie Soap | Stars: Kimberly Guerrero, Mo Brings Plenty, Steve Reevis, Darryl Tonemah
Votes: 69
17. Neither Wolf Nor Dog (2016)
110 min | Drama
A Lakota elder summons a white writer to visit him and help him write a book about his people.
Director: Steven Lewis Simpson | Stars: Dave Bald Eagle, Christopher Sweeney, Richard Ray Whitman, Roseanne Supernault
Votes: 374
18. Crazy Horse (1996 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Michael Greyeyes, Victor Aaron, Nathaniel Arcand, Frankie Avina
Votes: 515
19. Skins (2002)
R | 84 min | Crime, Drama
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux brothers living on the Pine Ridge reservation.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, Noah Watts
Votes: 1,559 | Gross: $0.24M
20. Tecumseh: The Last Warrior (1995 TV Movie)
92 min | Western
This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the Shawnee indians, tries to do something. He ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Jesse Borrego, David Clennon, Tantoo Cardinal, Gregory Cruz
Votes: 306
21. Geronimo (1993 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama, Western
This story of epic courage and grace is a remarkable window on Native American life and the early years of the last and most feared Apache War Chief.
Director: Roger Young | Stars: Joseph Runningfox, Nick Ramus, Michelle St. John, Michael Greyeyes
Votes: 543 | Gross: $4.65M
22. Lakota Girls (2017)
94 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
This is a historical drama about Mato Win, an eight-year-old Native American girl who lives at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. After her parents are critically injured in an ... See full summary »
Director: Mollianne Cameron | Stars: Ohitika Looking Horse, Clara Cameron, Samuel Shoulder, Alexa Raye
Votes: 11
23. A Thunder-Being Nation
Documentary
The journey of the Oglala Lakota of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, from their origins through to their contemporary life.
Director: Steven Lewis Simpson | Stars: Russell Blacksmith, Larry Bodin, Floyd Hand, Barbara High Pine Lovelace
24. Buffalo Nation: The Children Are Crying (2013)
101 min | Documentary, Family, History
"Buffalo Nation: The Children Are Crying" depicts the tragic way of life for the rural, isolated Lakota people living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. This documentary ... See full summary »
Director: Leslye Abbey | Stars: Lisa Ray American Horse, Daniel Blue Bear, Misty Sioux Davis, Yvonne DeCory
25. Generation Red Nation (2012)
54 min | Documentary, News
Generation Red Nation gives a brutally honest view of life on Indian reservations, leaving the Reservation, and city life.
Director: Olga Valanos | Star: Russell Means
Votes: 13
26. Holy Man: The USA vs Douglas White (2011)
85 min | Documentary, Drama
Holy Man is the story of Douglas White, an 88 year old Lakota Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who spent 17 years in federal prison for a crime he did ... See full summary »
Director: Jennifer Jessum | Stars: Martin Sheen, Russell Means, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman, Fred Alan Wolf
Votes: 33
27. Cangleska Wakan (2010)
Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary
Cangleska Wakan addresses the 'Sacred Hoop' of the Lakota Nation through candid and revealing opinions from contributors on various reservations in South Dakota.
Director: Aitken Pearson | Stars: Tim Apell, Roland Bisonette, Dallas Chief Eagle, Ryan M. Hall
Votes: 9
28. Questions for Crazy Horse (2010)
81 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the life of Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse and the Crazy Horse Memorial located in the Black Hills of South Dakota and how he has impacted the lives of the Lakota today.
Director: O.W. Tuthill | Stars: Junal Gerlach, Russell Means, Jay Red Hawk, O.W. Tuthill
Votes: 9
29. Reel Injun (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Western
The history of the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.
Directors: Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes | Stars: Adam Beach, Chris Eyre, Russell Means, John Trudell
Votes: 1,647
30. Wounded Heart: Pine Ridge and the Sioux (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
American Indians and government officials discuss poverty, racism, domestic violence, child abuse, inadequate health care, and drug and alcohol problems that besiege the Pine Ridge Indian ... See full summary »
Director: O.W. Tuthill | Star: Russell Means
Votes: 19
31. Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American (2003 TV Movie)
25 min | Documentary, Western
Hollywood's depiction of Native Americans in Western films is traced through interviews and archive footage.
Directors: Chris O'Brien, Jason Witmer | Stars: Nicholas Schatzki, Casey Camp-Horinek, Ward Churchill, Chris Eyre
Votes: 60
32. PahaSapa... The Struggle for the Black Hills (1994)
59 min
Director: Mel Lawrence | Stars: Alfrich Heap of Birds, Harry Byrd, Oliver Red Cloud, Calvin Jumping Bull
33. Born Again Primitive (1986)
58 min | Documentary
A documentary on Russell Means, the Native American activist and actor.
Directors: Jiri Havrda, Gines Serran-Pagan | Stars: Mike McMahon, Russell Means, Gines Serran-Pagan
34. Crow Dog (1979)
52 min | Documentary
This is a documentary about Leonard Crowdog, a Medicine man and spiritual leader of the Sioux. Legal and political issues relating to the Native American condition from the 1960s and the ... See full summary »
Directors: David Baxter, Mike Cuesta | Stars: Dennis Banks, Leonard Crow Dog, Mary Crow Dog, Richard Erdoes
35. Incident at Oglala (1992)
PG | 89 min | Documentary, History
This film describes the events surrounding a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge reservation in S. Dakota where two FBI agents were killed.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Robert Redford, Norman Zigrossi, Robert Sikma, Darelle 'Dino' Butler
Votes: 1,288 | Gross: $0.54M
36. A Thousand Roads (2005)
42 min | Short, Drama
The lives of four Native Americans take a significant turn as they confront the crises that arise in a single day.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Jeremiah Bitsui, Candice Costello, Geraldine Keams, Riana Malabed
Votes: 82
37. DreamKeeper (2003)
TV-PG | 174 min | Drama, Fantasy
The legends of the Native American nations come to life in this epic new miniseries, as two generations--a century-old storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy--embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery.
Director: Steve Barron | Stars: August Schellenberg, Eddie Spears, Gary Farmer, John Trudell
Votes: 1,725
38. Smoke Signals (1998)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer
Votes: 12,605 | Gross: $6.72M
39. Powwow Highway (1988)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.
Director: Jonathan Wacks | Stars: Gary Farmer, A Martinez, Joanelle Romero, Amanda Wyss
Votes: 1,901 | Gross: $0.28M
40. Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World (2017)
103 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history.
Directors: Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana | Stars: George Clinton, Robbie Robertson, Gary Giddins, Martin Scorsese
Votes: 1,080 | Gross: $0.23M
41. Legacy of Exiled NDNZ (2014)
14 min | Documentary, Short, Biography | Completed
LEGACY OF EXILED NDNZ documents the lives of young American Indians currently living in Los Angeles, California, while functioning as a tribute to the first generation of relocated (exiled)... See full summary »
Director: Pamela Peters | Stars: John Trudell, Kenny Ramos, Spencer Battiest, Heather Singer
Votes: 7
42. No More Smoke Signals (2008)
90 min | Documentary
The movie is about the Kili Radio in Porcupine, in The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (SD). Several important Native Americans (and Whites), that have influenced Lakota culture over the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Fanny Bräuning | Stars: Roxanne Two Bulls, John Trudell, Bruce Ellison, Derrick Janis
Votes: 55
43. Trudell (2005)
PG | 79 min | Documentary
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
Director: Heather Rae | Stars: Robert Redford, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Shepard, Amy Ray
Votes: 506 | Gross: $0.02M
44. Shadow Nation (2019)
67 min | Documentary, History
The journey of a group of renowned Rock musicians, led by George Lynch (Dokken/Lynch Mob) on a journey of discovery through music; exposing the injustices done to native Americans.
Directors: George Lynch, Mark McLaughlin | Stars: Noam Chomsky, George Lynch, Tom Morello, Ted Nugent
Votes: 39
45. Johnny Firecloud (1975)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Young American Indian gets out of the army and returns home to find his tribe victimized by a white rancher.
Director: William Allen Castleman | Stars: Victor Mohica, Ralph Meeker, David Canary, Frank DeKova
Votes: 392
46. Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
PG | 154 min | Drama, History, Western
The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo
Votes: 6,446
47. Ramona (1936)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Romance
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Kent Taylor, Pauline Frederick
Votes: 366
48. Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock (2017)
89 min | Documentary
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota captures world attention through their peaceful resistance against the U.S. government's plan to construct an oil pipeline through their land.
Directors: Myron Dewey, Josh Fox, James Spione | Star: Autumn DePoe-Hughes
Votes: 225
49. Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock (2018)
123 min | Documentary
Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of activists, environmentalists, and militarized police descend on the Dakota Access Pipeline, in a... See full summary »
Director: Cody Lucich
Votes: 24
50. Behind Standing Rock
57 min | Documentary | Post-production
From the recent events surrounding the water protection in the Standing Rock Reservation and their battle for clean water. The people the history, the plan, in comparison to the same issues... See full summary »
Director: Rick Kariolic
51. Black Snake Killaz: A #NoDAPL Story (2017)
120 min | Documentary
Black Snake Killaz is a feature-length documentary film about the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. This film explores actions taken by water protectors to stop the construction of ... See full summary »
Votes: 30
52. A Good Day to Die (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
AIM leader Dennis Banks looks back at his early life and the rise of the American Indian Movement.
Directors: David Mueller, Lynn Salt | Stars: Larry Anderson, Dennis Banks, Tashina Banks, Clyde Bellecourt
Votes: 164
53. Young Lakota (2012)
83 min | Documentary, Drama, History
After coming home to the Pine Ridge Reservation, Sunny Clifford along with her twin sister Serena, and their neighbor, Brandon Ferguson, dream of changing the harsh world around them. When ... See full summary »
Directors: Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt
Votes: 20
54. Children of the Arctic (2014)
G | 92 min | Documentary, Drama
At the Arctic edge of America, five Native Alaskan teenagers strive to be both modern American kids and the inheritors of an ancient whaling culture.
Director: Nick Brandestini | Stars: Samuel, Josiah, Flora, Ace
Votes: 62
55. The Seventh Fire (2015)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
When Rob Brown, a Native American gang leader on a remote Minnesota reservation, is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his... See full summary »
Director: Jack Riccobono | Stars: Robert Duane Brown, Kevin Fineday Jr., Albino Garcia
Votes: 203 | Gross: $0.03M
56. Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History, Western
The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U.S. Government's subjugation of his people.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi
Votes: 13,483 | Gross: $18.64M
57. Once Were Warriors (1994)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama
A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Julian Arahanga
Votes: 36,837 | Gross: $2.20M
58. The Silent Enemy (1930)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
A documentary about the life of Indians in Northern Canada.
Director: H.P. Carver | Stars: Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Chief Akawanush, Mary Alice Nelson Archambaud
Votes: 271
59. A Distant Trumpet (1964)
Approved | 117 min | Drama, Western
West Point graduate Lt. Hazard is posted to Fort Delivery, Arizona, where he has to deal with lax discipline, romantic complications, Apaches and his conflicting feelings toward the Indians.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory
Votes: 1,106
60. A Man Called Horse (1970)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and aspires to become their leader.
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou
Votes: 9,362 | Gross: $1.94M
61. Nevada Smith (1966)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, Western
A half-American Indian and half-white teenager evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 9,104 | Gross: $14.17M
62. The Light in the Forest (1958)
Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A young white man who spent his whole life raised by Native Americans is sent to live with his birth family and must learn to fit in with people he was taught to hate.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur
Votes: 703
63. Ride Out for Revenge (1957)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Western
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Gloria Grahame, Lloyd Bridges, Joanne Gilbert
Votes: 443
64. Comanche (1956)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Western
Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted Indian Commissioner (Lowell Gilmore).
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Nestor Paiva, Henry Brandon
Votes: 711
65. White Feather (1955)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, History, Western
In 1877 Wyoming, during the peace negotiations between the Cheyenne and the USA, an Indian girl falls in love with a land surveyor, causing the ire of her Cheyenne fiance.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund, Debra Paget
Votes: 1,170
66. Apache Country (1952)
Passed | 62 min | Western
When a white man sets out to keep Indians drunk so they'll do what he wants them to, the US government sends Autry to fix things.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Carolina Cotton, Harry Lauter
Votes: 138
67. The Big Sky (1952)
Approved | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
The success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt
Votes: 4,747
68. The Savage (1952)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A white boy raised by the Sioux must choose sides when the Sioux threaten to go to war against the Whites.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hansen, Joan Taylor
Votes: 680
69. Broken Arrow (1950)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael
Votes: 9,676
70. North of the Great Divide (1950)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western
The annual return of the salmon each year gives the Indians of the Northwest enough food to last until the next year. This way of live is threatened by Banning who puts in a cannery on the ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones
Votes: 180
71. The Cowboy and the Indians (1949)
Approved | 68 min | Western
Evil Indian Agent Richards is cheating the Indians into starvation. Gene shows that their raids are only for survival.
Director: John English | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Sheila Ryan, Frank Richards
Votes: 185
72. Indian Agent (1948)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Western
An honest cowboy tries to prevent conflict escalation caused by the actions of a corrupt government official.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Tim Holt, Noah Beery Jr., Richard Martin, Nan Leslie
Votes: 135
73. Little Big Man (1970)
PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam
Votes: 37,889 | Gross: $31.56M
74. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
PG | 135 min | Western
Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney
Votes: 79,836 | Gross: $31.80M
75. Valley of the Sun (1942)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Western
In the Arizona Territory of 1868, a fugitive army scout and a crooked Indian Agent lock horns over the treatment of the cheated Natives and over the affections of a local beauty.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Lucille Ball, James Craig, Cedric Hardwicke, Dean Jagger
Votes: 427
76. Dances with Wolves (1990)
PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Votes: 290,589 | Gross: $184.21M
77. Wind River (2017)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wildlife officer, who is haunted by a tragedy that happened because of him, teams up with an FBI agent in solving a murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation and hopes to get redemption from his past regrets.
Director: Taylor Sheridan | Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Graham Greene, Kelsey Asbille
Votes: 280,557 | Gross: $33.80M
78. Grey Owl (1999)
PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Western
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau
Votes: 4,041 | Gross: $0.63M
79. Dead Man (1995)
R | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen
Votes: 103,082 | Gross: $1.04M
80. Mohawk Girls (2010–2017)
22 min | Comedy
A half-hour comedy-drama about four young women discovering how to be Mohawk in the 21st century.
Stars: Brittany LeBorgne, Heather White, Maika Harper, Jenny Pudavick
Votes: 304
81. Thunderheart (1992)
R | 119 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward
Votes: 17,129 | Gross: $22.66M
82. Casino Jack (2010)
R | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Director: George Hickenlooper | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Barry Pepper, Jon Lovitz, Ruth Marshall
Votes: 17,707 | Gross: $1.04M
83. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
R | 172 min | Drama
The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.
Director: Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk
Votes: 6,860 | Gross: $3.79M
84. Older Than America (2008)
102 min | Drama
A Native American woman is haunted by visions that compel her to seek the truth about a residential school.
Director: Georgina Lightning | Stars: Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Bradley Cooper, Georgina Lightning
Votes: 1,218
85. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 133 min | Drama, History, Western
A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded west.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin
Votes: 7,437
86. The Education of Little Tree (1997)
PG | 112 min | Drama
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy who loses his parents during The Great Depression and begins living with his Indian grandparents and learning the Cherokee way of life.
Director: Richard Friedenberg | Stars: James Cromwell, Joseph Ashton, Tantoo Cardinal, Mika Boorem
Votes: 1,823 | Gross: $0.12M
87. Medicine River (1993 TV Movie)
PG | 94 min | Comedy
When photographer Will returns home for his mother's funeral he gets more than he bargained for from a strange cast of characters on the reservation.
Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: Graham Greene, Tom Jackson, Sheila Tousey, Janet-Laine Green
Votes: 133
88. Spirit Rider (1993 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Family
Jesse Threebears is a troubled Native-American teen who has been tossed from one foster home to the next since his mother died when he was an infant. Finally, he is taken in by his ... See full summary »
Director: Michael J.F. Scott | Stars: Herbie Barnes, Gordon Tootoosis, Michelle St. John, Tantoo Cardinal
Votes: 150
89. Clearcut (1991)
R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Ron Lea, Graham Greene, Michael Hogan, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
Votes: 1,367
90. Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
96 min | Drama
A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.
Director: Bruce Pittman | Stars: Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones, Gus Chief Moon
Votes: 293
91. The Red Man's View
137 min | Action, Adventure, Drama | Pre-production
A film about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'Free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the American Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters, and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of '... See full summary »
Director: Thomas R. Bond II | Stars: Zahn McClarnon, Booboo Stewart, Crystle Lightning, Daniel Baldwin
92. The Business of Fancydancing (2002)
103 min | Drama, Music
Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Native American poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to attend the funeral of a dear friend.
Director: Sherman Alexie | Stars: Evan Adams, Michelle St. John, Gene Tagaban, Swil Kanim
Votes: 550 | Gross: $0.17M
93. The Rez (1996–1997)
Drama
Spin off television series based on the characters from "Dance Me Outside"
Stars: Ryan Rajendra Black, Jennifer Podemski, Darrell Dennis, John L'Ecuyer
Votes: 112
94. Hostiles (2017)
R | 134 min | Drama, Western
In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Scott Shepherd, Rosamund Pike, Ava Cooper, Stella Cooper
Votes: 95,685 | Gross: $29.82M
95. Moana (1926)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s.
Directors: Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Ta'avale, Fa'amgase, T'ugaita, Tama
Votes: 737
96. The Pagan (1929)
Passed | 83 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A carefree South Seas native falls for the half-caste ward of a religious white man who desires her for himself.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Janis
Votes: 422
97. Rapa Nui (1994)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Love between the representatives of two warring tribes changes the balance of power on the whole remote island.
Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales, Sandrine Holt, Eru Potaka Dewes
Votes: 5,320 | Gross: $0.31M
98. South of Pago Pago (1940)
Approved | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The son of an island chieftain, young Kehane defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our hero by introducing him to seductive Ruby.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna
Votes: 163
99. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
TV-PG | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Bill Bambridge
Votes: 6,382
100. White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush
Votes: 964
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