Residential School Movies

Residential school survivor Jacob struggles to hang onto his family as his demons threaten to manifest.

For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones...

A haunting and visually stunning fairytale that blends the horrors of fantasy and the real life historical events of colonization and Indian Boarding...

In this layered short film, filmmaker Janine Windolph takes her young sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother), a residential school survivor who...

Between 1879 and 1986, upwards of 100,000 children in Canada were forcibly removed and placed into Indian Industrial Residential Schools. Their...

Christmastime at the Roman Catholic-run Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.

A young boy finds himself alone in the forest, fighting for survival, after escaping a residential school.

Muffins for Granny is a remarkably layered, emotionally complex story of personal and cultural survival. McLaren tells the story of her own...