American indian movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant american indian movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama, captivating and sincere films and TV shows about / with american indian, native american, indians, indigenous, native, death, society, horse, murder and indigenous people plots mostly in Drama, Western and Adventure genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as american indian: Into the West (2005), Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997), Morning Star (1991), Woman Walks Ahead (2017), Last of the Dogmen (1995), Windwalker (1980), The Mountain Men (1980), Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990), Soldier Blue (1970), Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994).

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Into the West (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 552 min.
TV show
Story: Steven Spielberg executive produced this TNT miniseries about American Westward expansion during the 19th century. Told from both the perspective of the white Wheeler family and the Native American Lakota tribe, the 12-hour epic follows the clans as ...
Style: epic, realistic, sincere, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: native american, american indian, wild west, indian war, old west, native american attack, tribe, native american white relationships, wagon train, interracial relations, friendship, injustice ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: south dakota
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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: native american, interracial romance, native american white relationships, american indian, native american attack, captive woman, stockholm syndrome, indian attack, squaw, captivity, moral dilemma, held captive ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: kansas
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 7.3
 1K
Morning Star (1991)
Genre: Biography, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 187 min.
TV show
Story: The story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women.
Style: historical drama, serious, realistic, sincere, epic
Plot: american indian, native american, sioux tribe, cavalry, american civil war, usa history, wild west, buffalo, racism, adoption, genocide, wartime life ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 1870s
Place: montana
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Woman Walks Ahead (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A headstrong New York painter embarks on a dangerous journey to meet Sitting Bull, but must face off with an Army officer intent war with the Native Americans.
Style: captivating, exciting, costume drama, art film, serious ...
Plot: native american, native american reservation, american indian, woman, social commentary, black lives matter, female empowerment, based on real people, empowerment, female artist, sioux tribe, insect ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, ancient times
Place: new york, north dakota
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Last of the Dogmen (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.
Style: suspenseful, anamorphic, serious, neo western, independent film ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: mountain, native american reservation, native, bounty hunter, native american tribe, native american, dog, survival, nature, scenery, treasure hunt, wilderness ...
Time: 90s
Place: montana, usa
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 6.8
 1K
Windwalker (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: native, native american, indigenous people, american indian, indians, tribe, pagan, redsploitation, mythology, wolf, missing son, mountain ...
Time: year 1980, 18th century
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The Mountain Men (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes across the two seedy fur ...
Style: action adventure, perverse, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mountain man, american indian, native american, wilderness, mountain, survival, wild west, camp, cowboy, camping, wild man, camping trip ...
Time: 19th century, year 1980, 1830s
Place: wyoming, usa
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Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american indian, cowboys and indians, heroes, kidnapping, native american attack, half breed, rescue, confined, escapades, vigilantism, rivalry, opposites attract ...
Place: arizona
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 6.9
 6K
Soldier Blue (1970)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US ...
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, controversial ...
Plot: native american white relationships, native american, native american attack, soldier, massacre, village, survival, military, fall in love, wild west, society, opposites attract ...
Time: 1860s, 1870s, 19th century
Place: persia, usa, colorado
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighboring tribe. Everything changes forever after a ship arrives from England, prospecting the ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: native american, thanksgiving, colonial america, courage, slavery, culture clash, american history, treasure hunt, christian, swashbuckler, american indian, death ...
Time: 17th century, year 1994
Place: england, new england, europe, usa, atlantic ocean
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Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, disturbing, rough
Plot: racism, american indian, civil war, black, african american, native american, indians, racial issues, blaxploitation, slavery, american civil war, battles ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: new mexico, usa, arizona
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: As the English and French soldiers battle for control of the American colonies in the 18th century, the settlers and native Americans are forced to take sides. Cora and her sister Alice unwittingly walk into trouble but are reluctantly saved by ...
Style: epic, exciting, period piece, costume drama, historical drama ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: native american, indians, american indian, wilderness, army, colonial america, war, colonialism, freedom, fight scenes, american history, revenge ...
Time: 18th century, middle ages, georgian era, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place: persia, usa
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 7.8
 29K
The English (2022)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
Style: tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, woman, death of son, death, son, old west, city, troubled past, female protagonist, bereavement, vengeance, loss of child ...
Time: 1890s, 19th century, 1900s
Place: wyoming
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 7.3
 3K
Barkskins (2020)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battle to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World. Based on the novel by ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, tense, visually appealing, exciting ...
Plot: american indian, settler, indigenous people, colonization, land grab, murder investigation, rivalry, preaching, power struggle, survival, religion, forest ...
Time: 17th century, 16th century
Place: quebec, france, canada, north america
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 7.3
 8K
Sami Blood (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ...
Style: harsh, anthropological
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: racism, coming of age, teenage girl, corporal punishment, indigenous people, boarding school, identity, teacher, runaway, nordic, book, humiliation ...
Time: 1930s
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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Four Sheets to the Wind (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, romantic comedy ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, last wish, native, american indian, indians, indigenous people, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
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On Sacred Ground (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on land that is owned by the Lakota “Sioux” Tribe. The film follows Daniel, a journalist ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, political
Plot: indians, reporter, american indian, social problems, intrigue, investigative journalism, native american reservation, problem, construction, indian reservation, investigative reporter, construction company ...
Place: montana
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Saints & Strangers (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story: Saints & Strangers is a story that goes beyond the familiar historical account of Thanksgiving and the founding of Plymouth Plantation, revealing the trials and tribulations of the settlers at Plymouth: 102 men, women and children who sailed on ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, serious, educational ...
Plot: colonial america, conquistador, new world, thanksgiving, medieval, indians, american indian, power struggle, sea voyage, political intrigue, ambition, religion ...
Time: 17th century
Place: america
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 5.7
 547
Black Cloud (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team.
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, colorful ...
Plot: native american, boxer, boxing, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, native, hopes, human spirit, society, self discovery, racism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, nevada, las vegas
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 7.2
 95K
Hostiles (2017)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Style: rough, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: native american, native american reservation, indian chief, reconciliation, widow, murder, american indian, wild west, bigotry, military, gunfight, hostility ...
Time: 19th century, year 2017, 90s, victorian era, 2010s ...
Place: new mexico, montana, america, colorado, usa
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 7.7
 279K
Wind River (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, neo western, neo noir, surprise ending ...
Plot: investigation, murder, snow, rape, winter, fbi, murder investigation, native american reservation, violence, fbi agent, native american, forest ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: wyoming, usa
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 7.5
 103K
Dead Man (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, black and white, gloomy, captivating ...
Plot: journey, native american, cowboy, gunfight, wilderness, murder, indians, on the road, accountant, existentialism, culture clash, modern western ...
Time: 19th century, year 1995, 90s, 1870s, victorian era
Place: usa, pacific ocean, cleveland ohio, england
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The Burrowers (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, but they soon discover that the real ...
Style: scary, rough, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: native american, monster, buried alive, cavalry, creature feature, creature, missing child, danger, isolation, kidnapping, old west, heroic mission ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, north dakota, south dakota
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Dances with Wolves (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 181 min.
Story: Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Style: scenic, touching, sentimental, epic, breathtaking ...
Plot: native american, american civil war, self discovery, culture clash, friendship, native, tribe, courage, pride and honor, native american white relationships, wolf, indians ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, victorian era, 20th century, 1800s ...
Place: kansas, south dakota, tennessee, america, usa ...
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 7.1
 111
Bones of Crows (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Bones of Crows is a psychological drama told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch Aline Spears, as she survives Canada's residential school system to continue her family's generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and ...
Style: dramatic, crying, sad, psychological, serious ...
Plot: world war two, indigenous people, violent, american indian, violence, grief, hunger, generation, racism, priest, indians, catholic church ...
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 3.1
 476
Buckskin (2021)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Set in 1820, a Texan fur trapper journeys into the mysterious Buckskin woods in the hopes of saving a lost boy. Once there, Wesley Porter must confront the demons of his past and navigate the savage Native's traps in order to bring himself and ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating
Plot: lost, american indian, gunfight, travel, adventure hero, danger, forest, jeopardy, weapons, indians, young
Time: 1820s
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The Last Manhunt (2022)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a confrontation gone terribly wrong. With President Taft coming to the area, the local sheriff leads two Native American trackers seeking justice for ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense, historical romance ...
Plot: indian chief, love, couples, american indian, relationships, native american reservation, desert, indians, old west, indian reservation, brother in law, mistaken identity ...
Time: 1900s
Place: mojave desert, southern california, california
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Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel ...
Style: meditative, depressing, melancholic, black and white, spiritual ...
Plot: shaman, amazon tribe, amazon river, jungle, amazon rainforest, nature, wilderness, friendship, existentialism, self discovery, genocide, indigenous people ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015
Place: colombia
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Ulzana's Raid (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is ...
Style: brutal, spaghetti western, suspenseful, bleak, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apache, native american attack, native, racism, native american, cowboy, wild west, cavalry, american indian, vigilante, indians, grand canyon ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century
Place: arizona, usa
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The Business of Fancydancing (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Indian poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to attend the funeral of a dear friend.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot: gay, friendship, lifestyle, self discovery, haunted by the past, tragic love, best friend, obsessive quest, orphan, youth, betrayal, writer's life ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: seattle, usa
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