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- Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
- A story of stolen children and cultural survival: inside the first truth and reconciliation commission for Native Americans.
- Battles over blood quantum and 'best interests' resurface the untold history of America's Indian Adoption Era - a time when nearly one-third of children were removed from tribal communities nationwide. As political scrutiny over Indian child welfare intensifies, an adoption survivor helps others find their way home through song and ceremony.
- A Shoshone veteran, a teenage powwow princess, and an Arapaho journalist discover their purpose on the Wind River Indian Reservation as they seek lost artifacts.
- Spanning his fifty-year dogsled racing career, ATTLA explores the life and persona of George Attla, from his childhood as a TB survivor in the Alaskan interior, to his rise as ten-time world champion and mythical state hero, to a village elder resolutely training his grandnephew to race his team one last time.
- Words from a Bear examines the enigmatic life and mind of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Navarro Scott Momaday. This profile delves into the psyche behind one of Native America's most celebrated authors of poetry and prose. Words from a Bear visually captures the essence of Momaday's writings, relating each written line to his unique Kiowa/American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history. Words from a Bear is a fresh and distinctive approach to biographical storytelling. Cinematically, this story takes audiences on a spiritual journey through the expansive landscapes of the West, when Momaday's Kiowa ancestry roamed the Great Plains with herds of buffalo, to the sand-painted valleys of Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico where his imagination ripened and he showed superior writing skills as a young mission student. The biography will give a thorough survey of Momaday's most prolific years as a doctorate fellow at Stanford University, his achievement of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1969, and his later works that solidified his place as the founding member of the "Native American Renaissance" in art and literature, influencing a generation of Native American artists, scholars, and political activists. Although his unique heritage is a central theme of the narrative, Momaday's work asks the questions every audience can relate to: what are our origins and how do we connect to them through our collective memories? Through his literature and the cinematic visuals, the film will illuminate how Momaday has grappled with these basic questions of human existence and his own identity. The film will reveal the most intimate details of the writer's personal life as revealed through his literary texts, along with the trials and tribulations he faced as a Native American artist in the twentieth and twenty first century. Historical photos, original animation, and stunning aerials of landscapes, will complement captivating interviews with Robert Redford, Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges, James Earle Jones, and Joy Harjo, to bring audiences inside the creative core of this American Master.
- Groundworks profiles four of the California Native co-creators of the "Groundworks" project-a collaborative dance performance on Alcatraz Island on San Francisco's first official Indigenous People's Day in October 2018. The one-hour documentary travels from traditional acorn gathering spots to the studios where the "Groundworks" performance was rehearsed before being shared at sunrise on Alcatraz-nearly 50 years after the Indians of All Tribes occupied the island and brought attention to Native American rights. Originally initiated by contemporary dance company Dancing Earth Creations, the "Groundworks" project was designed to amplify the oft-forgotten Native presence anywhere in the Americas. Groundworks weaves together four artists' stories and their contemporary ways of sharing traditional Indigenous knowledge. By exploring these artists' creative practices, Groundworks highlights their contemporary relationships to the Pomo, Ohlone, Tongva, and Wappo/Onastatis territories, languages, and traditions. Their efforts to "re-story" the land through creative reclamation are important facets of the Land Back movement. A critical component of decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty is revealing the hidden, overlapping histories of place through art, performance, and story. Groundworks also considers issues of land management, water rights, and food security-concerns for all Americans, especially in an age of climate change. These issues are particularly acute in Indigenous communities that have called these lands home for millennia, and who remain resilient despite centuries of colonization and marginalization. Profiled in the documentary are Ras K'dee, Pomo, a musician with ties to multiple bands in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties; Bernadette Smith, singer and dancer from the Manchester-Point Arena Band of Pomo Indians; Kanyon Sayers-Roods, a multidisciplinary Ohlone artist from Indian Canyon, a sovereign Indian Nation outside of Hollister, California; and L. Frank, a Tongva-Acjachemen artist, tribal scholar, canoe builder, and language advocate. These artists, through their practices and activism, bring attention to contemporary Indigenous life in California. Groundworks is produced for Vision Maker Media by Toronto-based production company Toasterlab, which is led by Ian Garrett (Groundworks director, producer, and writer) and Justine Garrett (Groundworks producer and writer). The Groundworks documentary production team includes co-producer and writer Tisina Ta-till-ium Parker (Miwuk/Paiute/Kashia Pomo), editor Tia Taurere Clearsky (Nga Puhi/Te Aupouri Nations of Aotearoa-New Zealand), and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Don Schroeder as consulting producer. Groundworks features original music created specifically for the original performance from Ras K'dee, Esmé Olivia, and Bernadette Smith, as well as contributions from K'dee's band Audiopharmacy.
- A culinary and travel documentary series that celebrates the multicultural history and traditions of Hawaii.
- How do you tell the story about the shattering of a tribe and the resilience of a people? With truth, honor, music, and a little comic relief. The show has synchronous time periods jumping from 1906 to 1846 and back again. "Something Inside is Broken" is a love story between 'Iine (EEN-AY) and Maj Kyle (MY-COOL-AY) of the Nisenan Tribe. 'Iine's father Symyk'aj (Soo-ma-ki) is the Chief of the Auburn band of Nisenan. He has trade and work agreements with Johann Sutter, but Sutter's slave hunters don't always follow those agreements . Now they have taken five young woman from Symyk'aj's village, including Maj Kyle. Sutter's fort is the gateway to the West and the rendezvous point of Captain Fremont, Kit Carson and the American soldiers. Symyk'aj is realizing his inability, and Sutter's inability, to protect his people from this new wave of immigrants. 'Iine, in turn, volunteers to work at Sutter's fort. Soon there after, 'Iine incites a riot and rescues Maj Kyle, which has a tragic ending for both characters. The Satirical comic relief comes with short segments of 'Frontier Idol' hosted by the first 'Governator' of California, Peter Hardyman Burnett, who is the master of ceremonies of this 1846 style reality show where slave hunters and slave girls are pitted against one another.
- Crying Earth Rise Up is a compelling story of the human cost of uranium mining and its impact on the water, land and people of the Great Plains.
- Nine stories explore our world from the Native American perspective using animation, music and real thoughts from real people.
- For decades, thousands of Navajos worked the railroads, maintaining the trans-continental network. Metal Road explores the dynamics of livelihood, family and the railroads, through the lens of one workday on the 9001 Heavy Steel Gang.
- This movie explores the lives of four Alaska Native people who are determined to break free from personal histories of trauma and suicide.
- When Kyle Felter, the lead singer of I Don't Konform sent out a demo album to Flemming Rasmussen, the Grammy Award-winner producer of Metallica, they never imagined themselves a few months later rehearsing with Rasmussen inside a hot hogan on a Navajo reservation before recording their debut album at the iconic Sweet Silence Studio in Denmark. While following I Don't Konform's fairy tale journey, our documentary REZ METAL, tells the larger compelling story of the heavy metal scene on Navajo reservations where many youths have grown disaffected as a result of endemic poverty, high rate of suicides, and domestic violence. By exploring different metal bands and their perspectives on music and contemporary life, this documentary will capture the universality of their experience and illustrate the many ways in which heavy metal music engages disenfranchised Navajo youth in constructive anger to effect positive change as well as to cope with personal tragedy.
- A Native adoptee tries to connect with a heritage she was raised with no awareness of.
- Yellow Fever follows young Navajo veteran, Tina Garnanez on her journey to investigate the history of the Navajo Uranium Boom, its lasting impacts in her area and the potential new mining in her region. She begins as a curious family member and becomes an advocate, lobbyist, activist and vocal proponent for transparency and environmental justice. Tina travels throughout the West to learn about uranium mining and nuclear development. She examines the pros, the cons and the hot debate over Nuclear power, which forces her to consider her own opinions on the subject of energy.
- Blas Preciado came home from war, with experiences, that would last a lifetime. After years spent abusing alcohol and two failed marriages, the Vietnam veteran found peace and acceptance in a Kiowa warrior society that he credits with helping him overcome the debilitating effects of war. Many Kiowa veterans have found their place in the Kiowa Black Leggings Warrior Society, a 20th Century revival of a once active military society known as Ton-Kon-Gah. For as long as anyone can remember, the Kiowa have revered their veterans. Revived in 1958, the society recognizes the military service of community members and has become an integral part of traditional Kiowa life. In a four-part series, producer Charles "Boots" Kennedye interviews leaders in the society like Preciado and Darwin Palmer, who served two tours in Vietnam and was awarded the bronze star for valor. His father Gus Palmer Sr. helped revive the ancient society and served as its first commander. Vanessa Jennings dances at society ceremonies to honor her uncle, George Mopope, who at the age of 15, with his family's permission, joined the service and fought in Korea. Vanessa serves as an Advisor in the women's auxiliary and takes part in the scalp dance to honor the warriors within her family and tribe. Lowell "Skeex" Russell was inducted into the Black Legs in 1991. He was part of an M-1 tank crew during Operation Desert Storm where he single-handedly captured nine Iraqi soldiers. The society's ceremonies serve as a venue for Kiowa families to recognize individuals entering the service or returning from duty. Every detail, from the red capes worn by the warriors to the painted battle tipi, honors the service and sacrifice of the many warriors of the Kiowa people.
- Biographical documentary shining a spotlight on the leadership role Comanche LaDonna Harris has had in Native and American and international civil rights since the 1960s.
- "The Osage Murders" is a historical documentary focusing on the events that occurred on the Osage reservation in the 1920s. In the early 1900s death was all too common in the oil boom town of Fairfax on the Osage reservation. Osage people were dying at alarming rates. Local authorities were quick to attribute these deaths to "accident," "suicide" or "poison whiskey." But when the Smith home was blown up in Fairfax it became apparent to everyone that someone was murdering the Osage people. The Osage were known as the richest people on earth. Their reservation sat on the largest oil field in U.S. history. The wealth of the Osage was legendary and everybody wanted a piece of the action. Osage tribal members became the target of every thief and con-man for miles. The Osage appealed to the FBI whose investigation uncovered a conspiracy that involved a whole family. Lizzie Q, an Osage woman, and her three daughters held between them 6 headrights. The first step in the conspiracy was to ensure that her daughter, Mollie, inherited all the family's headrights. The first to die was Mollie's younger sister, Anna Brown. Lizzie Q's family wasn't the only one that suffered the loss of land, money and loved ones. Every Osage was touched by what history remembers as the "Reign of Terror".
- Chronicles the legacy of legendary 19th century Cherokee syllabary inventor Sequoyah through the oral stories of 5 modern day Sequoyah descendants by retracing his final journey to Mexico and his mysterious death.
- ALMOST AN ISLAND is a cinematic portrait of the Goodwins, an Inupiaq family living above the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, Alaska. T
- Florentine Films/Hott Productions, in association with The Language Conservancy, presents a new documentary project: Rising Voices/Hóthaninpi. Five years in the making, this multi-platform project tells the story of a powerful threat to a Native culture. This threat is an insidious, impersonal villain - one that comes through TV sets and social media sites, through Tweets and comic strips and the daily news. The menace is the English language, and the victim seemingly marked for extinction is the Lakota language itself - the language of the Lakota nation, once usually called the Sioux. For the Lakota people, it's a local problem, but it's just one instance of a massive global one - a worldwide epidemic of language extinction.
- After a narrow win hands Tuba City High School their 19th state championship, second place finisher Chinle sets out to topple their rivals and finally claim victory for themselves.
- A 26-min documentary following the journey of two Mohawk girls as they take part in their traditional passage rites to becoming Mohawk Women.
- WITHOUT A WHISPER - KONNON:KWE is the untold story of the profound influence of Indigenous women on the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States.
- Unlike many Native American tribes, The Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi Indians were never removed from their ancestral lands, but they saw their environment and way of life fractured over time. A small group of tribal citizens fought for decades to keep traditional ways alive. When the US Federal government recognized the Pokagon as a sovereign tribal nation in the early 1990s, the tribe launched a series of cultural preservation and environmental restoration efforts. They are now actively working to restore with traditional arts, their language and ways of life, while creating new traditions to inspire tribal citizens to protect and preserve waterways for the next seven generations.
- Based on Pulitzer Prize winning author, N. Scott Momaday, and his bestseller,, The Way to Rainy Mountain, filmmaker Jill Momaday creates a road trip to sacred Kiowa ancestral sites that inform ancient myths, legends and oral traditions.
- A young girl brings hope to a community by combating their poverty and food insecurity through the age old practice of gardening.
- Four Native American Vietnam War veterans reflect on the agony of war and how their communities helped them carry their warrior legacy proudly.
- A Redemption Story follows Leo Yankton (Oglala Lakota) and how he contributed in efforts to protect the water on the Standing Rock reservation, and continues to find ways to have a positive impact with Native County and the rest of the world.
- When you hear the phrase "Native American music" you may not think of tubas, trumpets and Sousa marches. Yet this rich musical tradition has been a part of Native American culture for over one hundred years. Combining profiles of contemporary bands with fresh historical research, this half-hour documentary invites viewers to expand their definition and appreciation of Native American music.
- A tribute to director William Wyler consisting of interviews and excerpts from his many classic films.
- 1985– 58mTV-146.1 (118)TV EpisodePresents a biography of Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer as he converses with friends in a popular cafeteria, responds to post-lecture questions, and addresses people in his study.
- 1985– 1h 22mTV-14TV EpisodeThe modern dance choreographers Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis jointly and individually led many companies. The two developed the Nikolais/Louis dance technique together. In 1999 the dance companies representing their work were phased out
- 1985– 56mTV-146.6 (220)TV EpisodeSurely one of the most profound and outrageous influences on the times following World War I, was the group of a dozen or so taste-makers who lunched together at New York City's Algonquin Hotel.
- 1985– TV-147.3 (92)TV EpisodeIn the summer of 1931, three young idealists, Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg, were inspired by a passionate dream of transforming the American theater.
- 1985– TV-147.1 (142)TV EpisodeDocumentary about acclaimed screenwriter Waldo Salt.
- 1985– 1h 22mTV-147.2 (286)TV Episode59MetascoreThe life and work of Allen Ginsberg, the greatest of the Beat Generation poets is put in focus in this film
- 1985– 1h 2mTV-148.0 (97)TV EpisodeDanny Kaye was a great American entertainer with an enormous creative range, encompassing dance, popular song, classical music, complicated verse, impersonation and improvisation, which melded together into an utterly unique style.
- Even in her eighties, the legendary Lena Horne has a quality of timelessness about her. Elegant and wise, she personifies both the glamour of Hollywood and the reality of a lifetime spent battling racial and social injustice.
- 1985– 1h 55mTV-147.9 (101)TV EpisodeTelevision and radio pioneer Jack Paar has been called the most imitated personality in broadcasting. He virtually created the late-night talk show format as the host of The Tonight Show, one of televisions longest running programs.
- 1985– 1h 22mTV-147.3 (134)TV EpisodePlaywright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions teleplay Death of a Salesman (1985).
- Using film clips and photos, the art and history of vaudeville (1890-1930s) is illustrated.
- 1985– 1h 13mTV-147.3 (349)TV EpisodeAbout the musician, poet and composer Lou Reed. The rebel who made rock and roll into avant garde.