September 17, 2025
THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD (NFB) HAS A RICH COLLECTION OF INDIGENOUS CINEMA produced between 1968 and 2025, most of which can be streamed online.
The latest: coming November 17, 2025 is Nechako: It Will Be A Big River Again, a Lantern Films/Experimental Forest Films/NFB co-production written and directed by Stellat’en First Nation filmmaker Lyana Patrick. The feature documentary made its world premiere in Vancouver on May 3, 2025 in the DOXA Documentary Film Festival’s Justice Forum.
On its searchable online platform, the NFB, Canada’s public producer and distributor, offers hundreds of films by Indigenous directors and crews produced since its Challenge for Change activist documentary program began in 1967. These Are My People… (co-directed by Roy Daniels, Willie Dunn, Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell, and Barbara Wilson and released in 1969) was the first NFB film made entirely by an Indigenous crew.
Indigenous films on the NFB site are sorted into 18 different subject areas. The area of “Law, Legislation & Government Policy” contains six subjects.
NFB films can be streamed ad-free and subscription-free through a browser or from any device by downloading the NFB app. As well you can stream to your TV through Chromecast or AirPlay. Many are also available on the NFB’s YouTube playlist.
Anyone with a space, a screen, sound, and an interested audience can host a screening of an NFB film, on request, by filling out a short online form.
Filmmmakers are invited to submit project proposals to the NFB to direct or to co-produce.
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We acknowledge that the land on which we work is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.