Inuit Movies

  • 2010
    Lumaajuuq

    Lumaajuuq

    Lumaajuuq

    62010HD

    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...

    Lumaajuuq
  • 2002
    No Loitering

    No Loitering

    No Loitering

    02002HD

    An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film weaves together video shot by teens and by the...

    No Loitering
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice

    6.31967HD

    A late-spring sequence documenting domestic life, craft production, and a coordinated seal hunt on the sea ice.

    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice
  • 1979
    Canada Vignettes: Vignettes from Labrador North

    Canada Vignettes: Vignettes from Labrador North

    Canada Vignettes: Vignettes from Labrador North

    71979HD

    Brief history and profile of Inuit communities in Northern Labrador and the role of the Moravian missionaries in the region. Warning for outdated and...

    Canada Vignettes: Vignettes from Labrador North
  • 1956
    Qivitoq

    Qivitoq

    Qivitoq

    6.51956HD

    A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiancé, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find...

    Qivitoq
  • 2021
    Being prepared

    Being prepared

    Being prepared

    02021HD

    As the global pandemic reaches into the Arctic Archipelago, Inuk filmmaker Carol Kunnuk documents how unfamiliar new protocols affect her family and...

    Being prepared
  • 2008
    Kiyukta

    Kiyukta

    Kiyukta

    02008HD

    Kiyukta
  • 1986
    Somewhere in the Arctic...

    Somewhere in the Arctic...

    Somewhere in the Arctic...

    5.61986HD

    A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

    Somewhere in the Arctic...
  • 2025
    We See Changes

    We See Changes

    We See Changes

    02025HD

    James Simonee, an Inuit hunter from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, investigates the impacts of one of Nunavut’s largest mines on traditional lands near...

    We See Changes
  • 1901
    Esquimaux Village

    Esquimaux Village

    Esquimaux Village

    71901HD

    “One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit, scenes are...

    Esquimaux Village
  • 2015
    Kajutaijuq

    Kajutaijuq

    Kajutaijuq

    02015HD

    An Inuit hunter camped out in the Arctic wilderness discovers that it is not just the extreme elements that threaten his survival.

    Kajutaijuq
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    71967HD

    A summer river sequence documenting stone-weir fishing, communal labor, and domestic life.

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir
  • 2008
    The Necessities of Life

    The Necessities of Life

    The Necessities of Life

    7.52008HD

    In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted,...

    The Necessities of Life
  • 2011
    That Which Once Was

    That Which Once Was

    That Which Once Was

    02011HD

    In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted...

    That Which Once Was
  • 1988
    Nanook Revisited

    Nanook Revisited

    Nanook Revisited

    01988HD

    Filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North in the early twentieth century, and examine the...

    Nanook Revisited
  • 1974
    The White Dawn

    The White Dawn

    The White Dawn

    6.61974HD

    In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three...

    The White Dawn
  • 1934
    The Wedding of Palo

    The Wedding of Palo

    The Wedding of Palo

    5.51934HD

    The movie tells of the contest between two rivals for the love of an Inuk woman. The forces of nature will determine the winner.

    The Wedding of Palo
  • 2025
    The Good Canadian

    The Good Canadian

    The Good Canadian

    5.52025HD

    The world knows the image of the good Canadian. But what if there was a dark secret behind a national identity? THE GOOD CANADIAN exposes the truth...

    The Good Canadian
  • 2018
    Those Who Come, Will Hear

    Those Who Come, Will Hear

    Those Who Come, Will Hear

    92018HD

    The documentary proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec – all threatened with...

    Those Who Come, Will Hear
  • 1949
    How to Build an Igloo

    How to Build an Igloo

    How to Build an Igloo

    7.21949HD

    This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and...

    How to Build an Igloo