August Schellenberg
Author
Series
Dreamkeeper volume 1
Language
English
Description
The legends of the Native American nations come to life in this groundbreaking new miniseries from legendary executive producer Robert Halmi Sr. (ARABIAN NIGHTS, MERLIN). Two generations-a century-old storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy-embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery.
Author
Series
Dreamkeeper volume 2
Language
English
Description
Grandpa and Shane trek across the open vistas and distant Black Hills of South Dakota en route to the All Nations ceremony. Along this peaceful terrain, and under the calm of the moon, it's also the perfect time for Grandpa to tell his stories as they were told to him, perhaps for the last time.
Series
Criterion collection volume 826
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The apocryphal story of the meeting of British explorer John Smith and Powhatan native Pocahontas as a romantic idyll between spiritual equals. It then follows Pocahontas through her marriage to John Rolfe and her life in England. Includes Extended; Theatrical; and First Cuts. Also contains Making 'The New World', a documentary shot during the production of the film in 2004.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Set admidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607. Tell the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. This woman's journey of love lost and found again takes her from the untouched beauty of the Virginia wilderness to the upper crust of English society as we witness the dawn of a new America.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When Ryder (Lundgren), a mysterious stranger with a score to settle, rolls into a small town unannounced, life forever changes for its citizens caught under the oppressive thumb of a local tyrant. Armed with his Bible, his motorcycle and his thirst for revenge, Ryder faces down the evil dictator in true vigilante style, proving that justice still packs a punch.
6) Free Willy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A story about the friendship that develops between a 12-year-old boy who knows what it's like to be without a family, and a whale confined in a too-small tank at an aquatic park.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of thier identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
9) True Heart
Author
Language
English
Description
With the help of a Native American Indian and a legendary wild bear, two children struggle to survive the wilderness - and evil poachers - in this beautiful, action-filled family adventure.
10) Free Willy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A story about the friendship that develops between a 12-year-old boy who knows what it's like to be without a family, and a whale confined in a too-small tank at an aquatic park.
11) The new world
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Captain John Smith leaves the Jamestown fort to explore and trade with the Indians, but he is captured. Princess Pocahontas asks her father to spare Smith's life and they fall in love. When he returns to Jamestown, he finds the people starving. Pocahontas brings supplies, but while saving them English, she falls in disgrace with her people. When the Indians realize that the English will not leave their country, they attack. After a bloody battle,...
12) Black robe
Series
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron Indians. His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, and his life and the outcome of the mission imperiled, as the expedition faces the elements and hostile Indians.
13) Crazy Horse
Author
Language
English
Description
When gold miners protected by United States troops invade the Sioux homeland in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Oglala Sioux Crazy Horse and Chief Sitting Bull of the Teton Sioux fight against an overwhelming force to defend their people and their land in this true story.
15) Black Robe
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young and idealistic Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron Indians. His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, and his life and the outcome of the mission imperiled, as the expedition faces the elements and hostile...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
Series
Publisher
Rich-Heape Films
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Imagine you are a child, taken from your home, your family, taken from everything you know. In 1869, the U.S. government enacted a policy of educating Native American children in the ways of western society. By the late 1960's, more than 100,000 had been forced to attend Indian Boarding School"--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Jesse is a teenager settling into life with his adoptive parents, with an eye for girls and a feisty half-brother named Elvis. He never expects to see Willy again. But during a Pacific Northwest vacation, Jesse meets a special girl and to his delight, encounters Willy and his family. When a tanker runs aground and spills oil, the whales become trapped and the danger escalates when the oil ignites. To save Willy's family, Jesse must brave a sea of...