Michelle Thrush
Biography: Michelle Thrush is a Canadian actor and activist. Thrush is best known for her leading role as Gail Stonee in Blackstone for which she won the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role in 2011, and her recurring roles as Sylvia LeBret in North of 60 and Deanna Martin in Arctic Air. Thrush starred in the Palme d'Or and Cesar award nominated film Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 06, 1967
Deathday: N/A
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Pathfinder
2007-01-11
Pathfinder
Overview: A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-11
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Ebenezer
1998-10-13
Ebenezer
Overview: A Wild West retelling of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol," with Scrooge as a land baron, gunfighter, and card cheat who is visited by three spirits who attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-13
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Isaac Littlefeathers
1984-12-07
Isaac Littlefeathers
Overview: A young half-breed boy, the son of a hockey player and an Indian woman, is adopted by a Jewish shopkeeper, but finds himself torn between the different cultures with which he comes into contact.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-07
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Jimmy P.
2013-09-11
Jimmy P.
Overview: At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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Unnatural & Accidental
2006-07-07
Unnatural & Accidental
Overview: Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her mother, an aboriginal woman who has long been missing. As she turns over the stones that hide the debris of the unwanted and forgotten, she is drawn into the mysteries of ten missing native women whose spirits lead Rebecca to the killer who still haunts the alleys, streets and hotels of this urban wasteland.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-07
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Boil Alert
2023-09-10
Boil Alert
Overview: Activist Layla Staats shows the faces and personal stories behind the struggle of First Nations reserves to receive a basic human right: drinkable water.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-10
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Prey
2022-08-02
Prey
Overview: When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-02
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Bones of Crows
2023-06-02
Bones of Crows
Overview: Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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Skins
2002-09-27
Skins
Overview: An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-27
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007-05-27
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Overview: Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-27
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Showdown at Williams Creek
1991-10-31
Showdown at Williams Creek
Overview: True story of a former British soldier on trial for murder in the 19th century Northwest.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-31
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Fugitives Run
2005-08-02
Fugitives Run
Overview: There's never a dull moment from the time Clint Northern meets Dan John Fighting Bear at his granddaughter's birthday party. The two take an instant dislike to each other but find themselves unlikely partners when they're mistaken as the culprits of a local bingo heist! Madness and mayhem ensue as they embark on a mission to clear their names and bring the real culprits to justice while evading a vengeful cop, and a crazed casino security guard. It's a barrel of laughs that never stops rolling! Along the way, they get a lot more adventure than they bargained for, some newfound respect, and quite possibly a lasting friendship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-02
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The Birds Who Fear Death
2024-09-21
The Birds Who Fear Death
Overview: Two brothers, disinherited and desperate for cash, journey into the Canadian wilds to find themselves, their people and their fortune.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-21
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Dead Man
1995-12-23
Dead Man
Overview: William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a journey to the spiritual world.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-23
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The Northlander
2016-10-14
The Northlander
Overview: In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed of hope. The future of Last Arc is for him to discover, Cygnus ventures into a hostile landscape in search of an answer for his people. On this journey of encountering many traps and dangers, Cygnus discovers what has been hunting him is his identity.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Unwed Father
1997-10-12
Unwed Father
Overview: 9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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Red Snow
2019-10-02
Red Snow
Overview: Red Snow is a dramatic adventure that begins when Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian Arctic, is caught in an ambush in Panjwayi, Afghanistan. His capture and interrogation by a Taliban Commander releases a cache of memories connected to the love and death of his Inuit cousin, Asana, and binds him closer to a Pashtun family as they escape across treacherous landscapes and through a blizzard that becomes their key to survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-02
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The Saver
2015-09-20
The Saver
Overview: When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a janitor another as a cook. Juggling life and work and the discovery of the book, ‘50 Ways to become a Millionaire: All you need to do is save,’ Fern decides to do just that, replacing her grief with the quest to become a millionaire. Written, directed and edited by award-winning filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Marion Bridge, Stay), The Saver stars the newly discovered Imajyn Cardinal and is based on the young adult novel by Edeet Ravel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-20
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Lost Face
2016-09-25
Lost Face
Overview: Subienkow is in mortal danger. The fort he and his fellow fur thieves have erected in the snow is in flames - attacked by the very tribe they enslaved to build it - now only he and Big Ivan remain. As Ivan is tortured before him Subienkow must think fast to escape the terrible, protracted death that awaits him. He calls over the chief, Makamuk, and begins to bargain...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-25
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Parallel Minds
2020-09-24
Parallel Minds
Overview: In the near future, technology firm Red-Eye is on the verge of developing a revolutionary contact lens that records human sight to replicate memories. When the company’s lead researcher is murdered, Detective Thomas Elliot, and researcher Margo Elson are drawn into searching deeper to apprehend an elusive digital shapeshifter. Soon, both are threatened by their past as they seek to uncover what this dangerous artificial intelligence is trying to consume.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-24
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John Ware Reclaimed
2020-09-24
John Ware Reclaimed
Overview: Filmmaker Cheryl Foggo re-examines the story of John Ware, the Black cowboy who settled in Alberta, Canada, prior to the turn of the 20th century.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-24
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#VanLife
#VanLife
Overview: The lives of a group of young social media influencers descends into horror after joining a violent cult.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Dark Wind
1991-01-01
The Dark Wind
Overview: An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Birth of a Family
Birth of a Family
Overview: The film tells the story of four Cree siblings, Connie, Marianne, Gwen, and Anthony, separated as babies through Canada’s notorious Sixties Scoop, which saw indigenous children taken from their homes to be adopted by white families. Excited and curious, but also scared and afraid of rejection, they agree to meet for the first time over a holiday weekend in the mountains of Banff.
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Original Language: en
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