Forced Assimilation Movies
- 2012
3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race
3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race7.32012HD
Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort...
- 2018
Dawnland
Dawnland62018HD
They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, depriving them of their culture and erasing their identit...
- 2016
Who Will Burry The Dead?
Who Will Burry The Dead?02016HD
This documentary offers a deep, candid, and historical look at the Christian experience of America's largest and best-known tribes: the Dakota and Lak...
- 2012
Feral
Feral72012HD
A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt...
- 2022
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Lakota Nation vs. United States22022HD
Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to the promi...
- 1992
Surviving Columbus
Surviving Columbus01992HD
This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.
- 2023
Je'vida
Je'vida6.82023HD
Iida, an elderly Sámi woman, who has abandoned her roots under the pressure of forced Finnishization, is conflicted between selling her old homestead...
- 2021
Killing the Indian in the Child
Killing the Indian in the Child62021HD
The Indian Act, passed in Canada in 1876, made members of Aboriginal peoples second-class citizens, separated from the white population: nomadic for c...
- 2010
A Good Day to Die
A Good Day to Die6.52010HD
Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the...
- 1962
The Eyes of Children
The Eyes of Children01962HD
Christmastime at the Roman Catholic-run Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.