Movies and TvShows featuring "native-people" theme.

Naru is a fierce and highly skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, raised in the shadow of legendary hunters on the Great Plains. When danger arises, she embarks on a mission to safeguard her people. Her prey is a technologically advanced alien predator that has landed on Earth.

Moana is a documentary film that depicts the lives of Polynesian people in the 1920s. It explores their indigenous culture, family relationships, tattoo art, and dance rituals. The film showcases the beauty and richness of Oceania, specifically Samoa and Polynesia.

An aristocrat, Sarah, inherits a million-acre cattle station in the Australian Outback called 'Faraway Downs.' After her husband's death, a ruthless Australian cattle baron plots to take her land. Reluctantly, Sarah teams up with a rough-hewn cattle drover named Jackman to defend her station.

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is a documentary that follows the lives of people living in a remote village in the Siberian taiga. It showcases their struggle for survival, their self-reliance, and their close connection with nature. The film provides an intimate and gentle exploration of their daily routines, including hunting expeditions, dog-sled rides, and woodworking. Through beautiful cinematography, it captures the harshness and the beauty of the wilderness they call home.

Beans is a 12-year-old indigenous girl who navigates racism and her own journey of self-discovery amidst a land dispute between the Mohawk tribe and the Canadian government in 1990. This gripping story explores themes of identity, resilience, and the power of community.

History is taking to the seas and walking in the footsteps of Captain James Cook. 250 years after Cook began his epic exploration of the Pacific, Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Piano) journeys in his wake uncovering stories that resonate from those times on both sides of the beach. Sam begins with a disclaimer – he is merely an actor – but the story of Cook, and the impact he has had on the Pacific in the 250 years since his first voyage, has always fascinated him.

When Two Worlds Collide is a documentary that delves into the clash between indigenous people and the government in Peru's Amazon rainforest. The film explores the exploitation of natural resources, government corruption, and the fight for indigenous rights and environmental preservation. It follows the story of an environmental activist and the political turmoil surrounding the issue.

White Shadows in the South Seas is a silent film that follows a doctor who is haunted by his shameful past. Stranded on a tropical island, he must face the consequences of his actions and navigate through a dangerous and unpredictable environment. As he tries to survive and find redemption, he encounters native people, deals with cultural differences, and becomes entangled in a tragic romance. This classic romantic drama explores themes of guilt, forgiveness, and the clash of cultures.

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

Set in 1904, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins.

Every year the Sakha people celebrate the festival of summer - Ysekh. This ethnic holiday celebrates the Aiyy deities and the revival of nature; it embraces ritual prayers, plenty of rich food and koumiss, dancing, folk games, and horse races. Jehegey Aiyy is a serene deity worshiped by people. Jehegey gave horses to humans, and now is the heavenly patron of horse raising. In the majority of recorded songs and legends Jehegey is a male creature, but in some of them it has feminine gender and is called sylgy aiyhyta. According to legends it sometimes appears to people as a loudly neighing light-colored stallion.

This Traveltalk series short discusses how Johannesburg began as a farming community, but with the discovery of gold in the area, the city embraced mining as its primary industry. Native workers came to the area to train to be miners, and even after their work in the mines ended, many decided to remain in Johannesburg. The natives' music and dance are highlights.

This Traveltalk series short visit to New Zealand starts in Auckland, a bustling, modern city. Next is Christchurch, home of Canterbury University, where rowing teams participate in a regatta. Nearby is Lake Wakatipu, which inspires artists to put their impressions on canvas. We then visit Rotorua, a city famous for its geysers, hot springs, bubbling mud pools, and other geothermal activity. At Ferry Springs there is lots of trout for fishing. Later, a group of natives performs a canoe dance.

An indigenous family, one of the last forest people of old, copes with the unusual changes in their environment including the imposing lifestyle and customs of the more sociable tribes on the plains.

Quechua natives prepare for White Man, a time traveler and explorer who crashed and abandoned his spaceship in the Amazon, to return and take them away on an interstellar journey.

Over time and during conquest, "comida casera," home cooking of Texas Mexican families sustained indigenous identity and memory. Cooking deer, cactus and tortillas, women led the cultural resistance against colonization. This road movie weaves through Texas cities, names the racism that erased Native American history. It celebrates a new type of encounter, one with a table where All are welcome.

The award winning documentary film The Broken Moon, brings the audience to the most inhospitable and isolated region of the planet, the Himalayas. An amazing story of a nomadic people, struggling to change their destiny.