In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness.
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Alanis Obomsawin as Narrator (voice)
Jack Burning as Chief Joseph (voice)
Herbie Barnes as Chief Augnita
Robert Bourassa as Self
Ellen Gabriel as Self
Alanis Obomsawin Director
Wolf Koenig Producer
Tony Reed Sound Editor
Yurij Luhovy Editor
Don Ayer Sound Editor
Canada 09 September 1993
United Kingdom 12 July 1993
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Screening at MoMA as part of the Film exhibition Alanis Obomsawin: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of ...
On a July day in 1990 a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka Quebec into the international spotlight. Director Alanis ...
Directed by Alanis Obomsawin Produced by The National Film Board of Canada This feature-length documentary is set in the thick of the armed confrontation ...
1993 • CANADA • 120' OCT 23 / PM CINEMATECA – M. F. RIBEIRO CINEMA more info: ...
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01 January 1993
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17 April 1993
What was supposed to be summer school in England becomes an adventurous, exotic and romantic journey for a beautiful teenage girl.
29 December 1993
A widowed woman is being stalked by her husband's murderers.
25 December 1993
Billy and Jack are modern-day Robin Hoods who engage in petty scums to earn money for the upkeep of a daycare center for indigent and underprivileged children.
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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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