Browse Films
Showing 1 - 10 of 316 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is North American Studies
Abortion and Women's Rights 1970
This is the first film ever made about the struggle for abortion rights in the U.S.
Women Make Movies | 2022 | 28 minutes
Above and Below
Artist Tsherin Sherpa's remarkable 19-year journey from Tibetan Buddhist Thangka painter to global art superstar
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 35 minutes
Accordions Rising
A documentary feature film about the resurgence of interest in accordion music over the last 30-40 years. Although many continue to see the accordion as the stodgy instrument of a bygone era – and accordion jokes abound – this film sets the record straight.
Roberta Cantow | 2016 | 74 minutes
All Water Has a Perfect Memory
A poignant experimental documentary that explores the effects of tragedy and remembrance on a bi-cultural family.
Icarus Films | 2001 | 19 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
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales
Abigail Disney looks at the Disney family legacy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 87 minutes
Amerikanuak
More than half a century ago, many Basques left Spain to look for a better life working as sheepherders in the American West. In Amerikanuak, Nacho Reig looks at the lives of some of the last remaining Basque sheepherders in the United States.
Pragda Films | 2011 | 92 minutes
Ancient Sea Peoples of the North Atlantic
A history of maritime adapted cultures of the North Atlantic Rim back to the Ice Age
Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 118 minutes
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Charts the story of a poor Scottish immigrant who sailed to America in the 1840s, and by the end of the century would be the richest man in the world.
Collective Eye Films | 2015 | 75 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
