View all FilmsCinema and Representation
This theme focuses on the ways in which Aboriginal peoples have been represented in NFB documentaries. Film excerpts illustrate how the representation of Aboriginal peoples has evolved over the last fifty years.
Excerpts
Caribou Hunters
1
César's Bark Canoe/César et son Canot d'écorce
1
Circle of the Sun
2
The Other Side of the Ledger: An Indian View of the Hudson's Bay Company
2
Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole
1
Related NFB Films
The Accessible Arctic, 1967
Angotee: Story of an Eskimo Boy, 1953
Arctic Hunters, 1944
Arctic Jungle, 1948
Arctic Saga, 1952
Because They Are Different, 1964
Beyond the Frontier, 1952
Caribou Hunters, 1951
Down North, 1958
Eskimo Summer, 1944
Fur Country, 1942
Indian Canoemen, 1950
Indian Hunters, 1949
The Indian Speaks, 1967
The Longhouse People, 1951
Mission of Fear, 1965
No Longer Vanishing, 1955
Northwest Frontier, 1942
Pangnirtung, 1959
People of the Potlatch, 1944
People of the Rock, 1961
Peoples of Canada (Revised), 1947
Peoples of the Skeena, 1949
Through These Eyes, 2004
Totems, 1944
White Safari, 1946
Key NFB Films Produced by Aboriginal Filmmakers
Animation from Cape Dorset, 1973
Atanarjuat the Fast Runner, 2000
The Ballad of Crowfoot, 1968
Christmas at Moose Factory, 1971
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief, 1986
Foster Child, 1987
Inuuvunga - I Am Inuk, I Am Alive, 2004
The Learning Path, 1991
Moccasin Flats, 1992
Natsik Hunting, 1975
Starting Fire with Gunpowder, 1991
These Are My People ..., 1969
Travelling College, 1968
Who Were the Ones?, 1972
