Movies: Forced relocation

  • 1955
    Seminole Uprising

    Seminole Uprising (1955)

    Seminole Uprising

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    An angry Seminole chief wages war after his tribe is relocated from Florida to the American West....

    Seminole Uprising
  • 2007
    Up the Yangtze

    Up the Yangtze (2007)

    Up the Yangtze

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    A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze - navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge - a young woman says goodbye to ...

    Up the Yangtze
  • 2003
    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003)

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

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    A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us t...

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
  • 1971
    If Tomorrow Comes

    If Tomorrow Comes (1971)

    If Tomorrow Comes

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    In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl Harbor is attacked....

    If Tomorrow Comes
  • 2001
    Forever in Our Hearts: Memories of the Hebron Relocation

    Forever in Our Hearts: Memories of the Hebron Relocation (2001)

    Forever in Our Hearts: Memories of the Hebron Relocation

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    In 1999, Innu community members who, 40 years previously, had been forcibly relocated from their remote northern region of Labrador to established settlements in the province, return to Hebron to reminisce and reckon with the destructive impact the r...

    Forever in Our Hearts: Memories of the Hebron Relocation
  • 1985
    Broken Rainbow

    Broken Rainbow (1985)

    Broken Rainbow

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    Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona....

    Broken Rainbow
  • 2015
    La Buena Vida - The Good Life

    La Buena Vida - The Good Life (2015)

    La Buena Vida - The Good Life

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    The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu community's way of life is being destroyed by the vast and rapidly growing El Cerrejón coal mine. Determined to s...

    La Buena Vida - The Good Life
  • 1979
    Kouchibouguac

    Kouchibouguac (1979)

    Kouchibouguac

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    In 1969, the federal government expropriated two hundred and fifteen families in eight towns of New Brunswick in order to build a national park. Not only did these families lose their homes and their memories, they also lost their livelihoods....

    Kouchibouguac
  • 1996
    Foreign Moon

    Foreign Moon (1996)

    Foreign Moon

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    Drama about a young Chinese girl who arrives in London to pursue her dreams, and the three men who fall for her. In order to study music, Lan Lan must marry her sponsor's son, for whom she has no affection. She eventually takes flight and befriends ...

    Foreign Moon
  • 2011
    Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1

    Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1 (2011)

    Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1

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    A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity, and justice after decades of top-secret human radiation experiments conducted on them by the U.S. government....

    Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1
  • 1981
    The Sand Island Story

    The Sand Island Story (1981)

    The Sand Island Story

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    This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii's Sand Island "squatter" community attempted to resist eviction from the Honolulu shoreline - resulting in displacement, arrests, and the destruction...

    The Sand Island Story
  • 1996
    Place of the Boss: Utshimassits

    Place of the Boss: Utshimassits (1996)

    Place of the Boss: Utshimassits

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    In the '60s, the Mushuau Innu had to abandon their 6,000-year nomadic culture and settle in Davis Inlet. Their relocation resulted in cultural collapse and widespread despair....

    Place of the Boss: Utshimassits
  • 1991
    Remember Africville

    Remember Africville (1991)

    Remember Africville

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    This short film depicts Africville, a small black settlement that lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the families there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. More than 20...

    Remember Africville