Top Native Peoples Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Tom Hanks

Helena Zengel

Michael Angelo Covino

Ray McKinnon

News of the World (2020)

6.9 2.0K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.

Plot: newspaper, based on novel or book, horse, native american, shootout, orphan, american civil war, civil war veteran, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: texas

Cast

Irene Bedard

Mel Gibson

David Ogden Stiers

John Kassir

Pocahontas (1995)

6.9 6.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 81 min.

Audience: G

Story: Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.

Plot: culture clash, cartoon, villain, colony, forbidden love, musical, native american, unrequited love, ...

Time: 17th century, 1600s

Cast

Mel Gibson

Jodie Foster

James Garner

Graham Greene

Maverick (1994)

6.9 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

Plot: ship, saloon, poker, mississippi river, native american, oregon, usa, con artist, ...

Cast

Kurt Russell

Patrick Wilson

Richard Jenkins

Matthew Fox

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

6.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Western

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: NR

Story: During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

Style: cynical

Plot: rescue, sheriff, prisoner, ambush, poison, redemption, wilderness, gore, ...

Cast

Johnny Depp

Isla Fisher

Ned Beatty

Bill Nighy

Rango (2011)

6.9 7.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG

Story: When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.

Plot: hero, gunslinger, sheriff, suicide attempt, nevada, mayor, pet, native american, ...

Cast

Jason Momoa

Landon Liboiron

Alun Armstrong

Jessica Matten

Frontier (2016) TV Show

6.8 345 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In 18th-century North America, ruthless trappers and entrepreneurs fight to wrest control of the fur trade from the mighty Hudson's Bay Company.

Plot: newfoundland and labrador, native american, historical fiction, historical drama, indigenous peoples, fur trade

Time: 18th century

Cast

Camilo Arancibia

Heinz K. Krattiger

Mark Stanley

Alfredo Castro

The Settlers (2023)

6.8 154 votes

Genre: Drama, Western

Country: Argentina, Chile

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.

Plot: rape, mass murder, indigenous, expedition, native american, integration, patagonia, argentina, ...

Time: 1900s, 20th century

Place: chile, argentina, south america, ...

Cast

Michael Fassbender

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Ben Mendelsohn

Caren Pistorius

Slow West (2015)

6.7 1.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Country: Australia, New Zealand

Duration: 84 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.

Plot: fire, bounty hunter, horseback riding, shotgun, horse, search, native american, death of father, ...

Place: ireland

The Son (2017) TV Show

6.7 147 votes

Genre: Drama

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: The multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain his family’s cattle empire during the turbulent Bandit Wars of South Texas. Based on Philipp Meyer’s acclaimed novel.

Plot: native american, oil tycoon, comanche

Place: texas

Cast

Sam Shepard

Eduardo Noriega

Stephen Rea

Magaly Solier

Blackthorn (2011)

6.6 293 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Western

Country: Bolivia, France

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.

Plot: robbery, miner, treachery, sundance kid, native peoples, butch cassidy

Cast

Hilary Swank

Tommy Lee Jones

Grace Gummer

Miranda Otto

The Homesman (2014)

6.5 881 votes

Genre: Drama, Western

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.

Plot: dancing, based on novel or book, native american, revenge, wild west, driven insane, abusive marriage, refused services, ...

Cast

Colin Farrell

Q'orianka Kilcher

Christopher Plummer

Christian Bale

The New World (2005)

6.5 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 151 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

Plot: native american, native american attack, interracial romance, colonialism, virginia, british colonial, new world

Time: 17th century

Cowboy (1958)

6.5 74 votes

Genre: Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...

Plot: hotel, chicago, illinois, based on novel or book, forbidden love, cattle drive, native american attack, train, ...

Place: mexico

Cast

John Wayne

Geraldine Page

Ward Bond

Michael Pate

Hondo (1953)

6.5 245 votes

Genre: Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 84 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

Plot: military officer, apache nation, native american, cavalry

Time: 19th century

Cast

Michelle Williams

Bruce Greenwood

Will Patton

Zoe Kazan

Meek's Cutoff (2011)

6.5 304 votes

Genre: History, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

Plot: immigrant, gold, territory, tree, confidence, thirst, language barrier, bible, ...

Cast

Sidney James

Kenneth Williams

Charles Hawtrey

Roy Castle

Carry On Up the Khyber (1968)

6.5 91 votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe, but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas—he wants all the British dead. But his troops fear the 'skirted-devils, who are rumoured not to wear any underwear.

Plot: princess, underwear, kilt, palace, british army, british empire, satire, native american, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: india

Cast

Richard Harris

Jean Gascon

Judith Anderson

Corinna Tsopei

A Man Called Horse (1970)

6.4 236 votes

Genre: Drama, Western

Country: Mexico, United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.

Plot: ambush, ritual, indian territory, native american, aristocrat, tribal warfare, sioux tribe, rite of passage, ...

Cast

Jackie Chan

Owen Wilson

Lucy Liu

Xander Berkeley

Shanghai Noon (2000)

6.4 2.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western

Country: United States of America, Hong Kong

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

Plot: princess, rescue, martial arts, native american, sioux, travel, chinese, cowboy, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Adam Beach

Peter Stormare

Noah Emmerich

Windtalkers (2002)

6.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

Plot: radio transmission, marine corps, us army, native american, code, based on true story, navajo, pacific war, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: japan

Cast

James Arnold Taylor

Cree Summer

John Mahoney

Jacqueline Obradors

Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)

6.3 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 80 min.

Audience: G

Story: Milo and Kida reunite with their friends to investigate strange occurances around the world that seem to have links to the secrets of Atlantis.

Plot: submarine, atlantis, cartoon, animal attack, villain, native american, vikings (norsemen), sequel, ...

Time: 1910s

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