Savage (2009)
On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in...
Cold Journey (1975)
In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him...
Indian Horse (2018)
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey...
A Common Experience (2013)
A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal...
Bones of Crows (2023)
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the...
In the Beginning was Water and Sky (2017)
A haunting and visually stunning fairytale that blends the horrors of fantasy and the real life historical events of colonization and Indian Boarding...
Clouds of Autumn (2015)
The carefree childhood existence of an Indigenous brother and sister is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Residential School far from...
Pudana: Last of the Line (2010)
A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign...
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)
In 1976, a Mi'gMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are...
V.C. Andrews' Pearl in the Mist (2021)
Ruby is hopeful for a new start with her twin sister as they continue their education at an all-girl's boarding school. However, she soon endures...
Shi-Shi-Etko (2009)
Young native Indian Shi-Shi-Etko will soon be taken away from her home to begin her formal western education at a residential school, which were...
I am the Warrior: A Residential School Story (2021)
"I Am the Warrior: A Residential School Story" depicts the struggling relationships between a mother and daughter fox after the mother has suffered...
All Together Now (2020)
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a...
Gigi & Nate (2022)
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her...
Starving in Suburbia (2014)
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an...
Sky (2016)
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
Coldwater (2013)
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes...
The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
Cardboard Boxer (2016)
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
Won't Back Down (2012)
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission...
Fast Girls (2012)
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
The Girl in the Book (2015)
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Eleanor the Great (2025)
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after...