Inuit Movies
- 1983
Our Land, Our Truth
Our Land, Our Truth01983HD
Made in collaboration with the Inuit Tungavingat Nunamini, this film focuses on those dissident members of the Inuit community who rejected the...
- 2021
Being prepared
Being prepared02021HD
As the global pandemic reaches into the Arctic Archipelago, Inuk filmmaker Carol Kunnuk documents how unfamiliar new protocols affect her family and...
- 2009
Exile
Exile02009HD
Zacharias Kunuk tackles the subject of the High Arctic Relocation from an Inuit point of view in the documentary Exile. In 1953, Inuit families were...
- 1967
Netsilik Eskimo Series, III: At the Spring Sea Ice Camp
Netsilik Eskimo Series, III: At the Spring Sea Ice Camp5.51967HD
Two Eskimo families travel across the wide sea ice. Before night falls they build small igloos and we see the construction in detail. The next day a...
- 1970
Inuk Woman City Blues
Inuk Woman City Blues01970HD
Follows homeless, addicted and alienated Greenlandic women in Copenhagen, Denmark; includes fragments of Greenlandic culture.
- 2015
One Who Has Two Souls
One Who Has Two Souls6.8332015HD
He was called "He Who Has Two Souls". He was beautiful as a woman. And handsome as a man. He hesitated.
- 1973
Animation from Cape Dorset
Animation from Cape Dorset01973HD
This collection assembles the first animated films to be made by Inuit artists at the NFB. Featured is work by Solomonie Pootoogook, Timmun Alariaq,...
- 1967
Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place
Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place51967HD
The time is early autumn. The woman wakes and dresses the boy. He practices with his sling while she spreads a caribou skin to dry. The boy picks...
- 1998
Amarok's Song - The Journey to Nunavut
Amarok's Song - The Journey to Nunavut01998HD
In this feature-length documentary, three generations of the Caribou Inuit family come together to tell the story of their journey as Canada's last...
- 1967
Netsilik Eskimos, V: At the Winter Sea Ice Camp
Netsilik Eskimos, V: At the Winter Sea Ice Camp4.71967HD
In late winter when the cold is severe, the people and dogs are glad to stop their trek and make camp. In the blue dusk the men probe the snow and...
- 1967
Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice
Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice51967HD
Late June, and much of the land is bare. There are sounds of running water, and melt ponds shine everywhere. The woman carries heather and moss to...
- 2005
Urban Inuk
Urban Inuk02005HD
Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk) follows the lives of three Inuit in Montreal over the course of one hot and humid summer.Only two generations ago Inuit...
- 2010
The White Archer
The White Archer02010HD
An Inuit youth trains to become a great archer in hopes of avenging the killing of his family – but the First Nations attackers were punishing...
- 1989
Kamik
Kamik01989HD
A portrait of Ulayok Kaviok, one of the last of a generation of Inuit, born and bred on the land. Ulayok and her family, like many Inuit today,...
- 2015
Little Folk of the Arctic
Little Folk of the Arctic02015HD
In the folklore of most cultures around the world there are stories of magical little folk. And the Arctic is no exception. Inuit traditional...
- 1988
Nanook Revisited
Nanook Revisited01988HD
Filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North in the early twentieth century, and examine the...
- 1967
Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir
Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir5.51967HD
Full summer, and the tundra is bare; skin tents are up and it is time to attend to the fishing as the fish move upstream. The men are in the river,...
- 1914
Greenland, 1914
Greenland, 191401914HD
Danish documentary following different locations and situations in Greenland anno 1914. It comes around settlements, hunters, steamboats, umiaks, a...
- 2010
Lumaajuuq
Lumaajuuq62010HD
This animated short is a tragic and twisted story about the dangers of revenge. A cruel mother mistreats her son, feeding him dog meat and forcing...
- 1901
Esquimaux Village
Esquimaux Village51901HD
“One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit, scenes are...