Repatriation Movies

  • 1970
    Album polski

    Album polski

    Album polski

    01970HD

    University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

    Album polski
  • 2020
    Black Thoughts

    Black Thoughts

    Black Thoughts

    12020HD

    A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a perceive...

    Black Thoughts
  • 2023
    The Homecoming

    The Homecoming

    The Homecoming

    8.52023HD

    Sámi artefacts from the Finnish National Museum are returning home to Sápmi, while the holy drums of the Sámi people are still imprisoned in the basem...

    The Homecoming
  • 1946
    Reunion

    Reunion

    Reunion

    6.81946HD

    Live footage from concentration camps after the liberation, and the complex transport and lodging of masses of prisoners of war and other deported peo...

    Reunion
  • 2004
    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    02004HD

    Filmmaker Kevin McMahon accompanies the Haida delegation on a repatriation trip to Chicago in 2003. His film reveals the whole repatriation process th...

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii
  • 2016
    What Was Ours

    What Was Ours

    What Was Ours

    02016HD

    Like millions of indigenous people, many Native American tribes do not control their own material history and culture. For the Eastern Shoshone and No...

    What Was Ours
  • 2014
    Message from Mungo

    Message from Mungo

    Message from Mungo

    72014HD

    Lake Mungo is an ancient Pleistocene lake-bed in south-western New South Wales, and is one of the world’s richest archaeological sites. Message from M...

    Message from Mungo
  • 2018
    Etched in Bone

    Etched in Bone

    Etched in Bone

    02018HD

    Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, Etched in Bone explores the impact of one notorious bone theft by a member of the 1948 American-...

    Etched in Bone
  • 2021
    Home from School: The Children of Carlisle

    Home from School: The Children of Carlisle

    Home from School: The Children of Carlisle

    02021HD

    “Kill the Indian to save the man” was the catchphrase of The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a boarding school opened in Pennsylvania in 1879. It b...

    Home from School: The Children of Carlisle