Library Guides: Indigenous Knowledges: Films &amp; Videos

Video Databases & Playlists

Centennial Libraries has dozens of databases exclusively for video content. Many video databases create curated playlists or channels around specific topics, themes, and historical events. Check out a few recommended databases and playlists focused on Indigenous-created content below!

Can-Core
This collection features videos produced in Canada with emphasis on Canadian and Indigenous content. Includes multilingual videos in Ojibway, Inuktitut, Cree, and more!
CBC Curio: Indigenous Films
A look at Indigenous filmmaking in Canada and a selection of Indigenous films available on Curio.
CBC Curio: Indigenous Governance
This theme examines issues of Indigenous governance, including land and resource managements rights, the future of the Indian Act and other laws and policies impacting Indigenous communities in Canada today.
CBC Curio: Indigenous Youth
This theme takes a closer look at the hopes, experiences and challenges of Indigenous youth in Canada today. Among the topics examined are cultural identity, community engagement, education, the environment and relations with law enforcement.
Criterion On-Demand: Indigenous Studies
Horror films, comedies, dramas, and more from Indigenous directors, writers, and/or producers.
The NFB and Indigenous Filmmaking Through the Years (Ages 15-17)
A playlist of documentaries and films curated by groundbreaking Métis writer/director Gil Cardinal.
NFB Indigenous Cinema
Indigenous Cinema offers free streaming of hundreds of titles by Indigenous directors. Spanning both short and feature-length movies produced from 1968 to present.
NFB National Canadian Film Day
This playlist curated by award-winning nēhiyaw and Jewish filmmaker, video artist, writer and cultural worker, Ariel Smith, includes several NFB titles all of which hold historical, artistic and cultural significance in the canon of Indigenous cinema in Canada.

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