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5x5: Voices of Change from the Forests of Indonesia + Hope: Indigenous Climate Change Solutions

Five short films from Indigenous communities across Indonesia show their response to threats to their forests posed by miners, loggers, palm oil plantations and global warming. In the sixth film a Dayak Iban community inspires hope as it offers a simple solution to the global climate crisis.

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Face to Face Media | 2008 | 37 minutes

Aboriginal Architecture

New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 93 minutes

Ama

The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 74 minutes

Amazon Mirror

During the 1980s, Brazil's military dictatorship erected a massive Amazon dam, leaving residents without electricity for 40 years. A film crew explores the decision to stay.

Pragda Films | 2020 | 78 minutes

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

Tells the story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature, the North American tallgrass prairie. This title has one or more clips.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 60 minutes

American Outrage

Two elderly Western Shoshone sisters, the Danns, put up a heroic fight for their land rights and human rights.

Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 56 minutes

Another Word For Learning

When Aisha decides to quit school, her mother, troubled by her own colonial education, sees this as an opportunity for them both to reconnect with their Kwakwaka'wakw culture.

GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 72 minutes

Apache 8

A story of resilience, strength, and tradition, APACHE 8 tells the story of an all-female group of firefighters, who protect their reservation from fire and respond to wildfires around the station.

Women Make Movies | 2011 | 57 minutes

Arrows Against the Wind

The Dani and the Asmat come face to face with the modern world in Irian Jaya.

Bullfrog Films | 1993 | 52 minutes

Arrows Against the Wind

West Papua, the "Amazon of Asia" is a vast tropical rainforest that has been occupied for  25,000 years.  The Dani and the Asmat people have lived in spiritual harmony with the land for millennia. Now they are threatened by Indonesia's policy of assimilation and the destruction of their lands. This title has one or more clips.

Face to Face Media | 1993 | 52 minutes