Tantoo Cardinal
18 titles
Filmography
18 results

Falls Around Her
(2018)Mary Birchbark (Tantoo Cardinal), a legendary singer, returns to the vast wilderness of her reservation to reconnect with the land and her community. While there, Mary begins to sense that someone might be watching her. Unsure of what is real and what is imagined, Mary embraces isolation as she explores the psychological impact of her past and present.

Red Snow
(2019)
The Education of Little Tree
(1997)James Cromwell (Babe) stars in this heartwarming adaptation of the acclaimed best-seller about an eight-year-old Cherokee boy in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains during the 1930s.

Where the Rivers Flow North
(1993)A defiant log driver and his American Indian friend resist a power company boss who plans to flood their land, leading to unexpected challenges.

Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
(2025)A look at how Hollywood Westerns propagandized audiences against ‘savage’ Native Americans while omitting genocide and glorifying Manifest Destiny.

Luna: Spirit of the Whale
(2007)A government official plans to reunite an orphaned orca with his pod but a tribe, insisting it holds the spirit of their late chief, works to stop it.
The Great Northern Candy Drop
(2017)
Black Robe
(1991)The epic story and personal reckoning of a Catholic missionary, called Black Robe, trying to settle in with an Iroquois tribe in 17th century Canada.

The Corruption of Divine Providence
(2020)When a teenage girl becomes a battleground for good and evil, only pure faith can broker peace in a community cloaked in its ghastly secrets.

Killers of the Flower Moon
(2023)Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone star in an epic Western crime saga from director Martin Scorsese.

Smoke Signals
(1998)Two young American Indian men take a road trip to Phoenix.
Shouting Secrets
(2011)Estranged siblings and their father are forced to deal with one another in the confines of a hospital and at the family home on a reservation after their mother descends into a coma.

Dances with Wolves
(1990)John Dunbar, a Union Lieutenant of the Civil War, requests a station on the vast sweep of the short grass plains in the Dakotas where he finds himself improbably befriending both a resident gray wolf and a Sioux tribe.

The Grizzlies
(2019)In this inspiring true story, a group of Inuit students in a small, struggling Arctic community are changed forever through the transformative power of sports.

Through Black Spruce
(2019)Based on the Giller Award-winning novel of the same name by Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce is a story of identity and survival. The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.

Hold the Dark
(2018)In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.

Hope Bridge
(2015)With help from his church pastor and a love interest, a grieving high schooler tries to find hope and love after his father dies by suicide.

ARQ
(2016)Trapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity.