Christmas at Moose Factory

3400-20, 13 minutes, 1971 Released in 1971, this lyrical short documentary marked the directorial debut of legendary Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin. Filmed at a residential school in northern Ontario, it is composed entirely of drawings by young Cree children and stories told by the children themselves. Request

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Cold Journey

3400-19, 75 minutes, 1975 Fifteen-year-old Buckley attends residential school, where he longs for his home and dreams of fishing and hunting. Yet when he returns to the reserve for the summer he feels like a stranger, unable to speak his Cree language or live off the land like his father...

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Clouds of Autumn

3400-17, 15 minutes, 2016 A brother and sister’s carefree childhood in a Native American community is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Canadian residential school in the early 1970s. Request

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Elder In The Making: A Broken Treaty

3400-18, 15 minutes, 2015 As time passed, the Canadian government’s perspective with regards to Aboriginal people changed. The Indian was now a problem needing a solution. What follows from the treaty signing is a genocide in slow motion. Elder Narcisse Blood shares his story growing up in residential school and...

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A Requiem for the Canadian Dream

3400-13, 11 minutes, 2016 This short documentary explores the history and impact of the Canadian residential school system through a collection of interviews with some of Canada’s most influential Indigenous leaders. It provides valuable insights into the Canadian residential school system experience and shines a light into this dark chapter...

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BEYOND THE SHADOWS

#1900-12, 28 minutes, 1992 This is a documentary about the far-reaching and emotionally devastating effects of residential\boarding schools on native Indians while depicting painful personal experiences: the cause of “multi-generational grief” and the healing processes underway in communities today. Request

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