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: ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1993:
01 January 1993
Law man Darby Jampinjimpa Ross and other Warlpiri elders introduce us to their community's fire ceremony.
30 June 1993
A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.
09 January 1993
Two very different crimes, a post office robbery and a murder, happens at the same time. Two detectives at the Bergen police station get each their case.
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.
01 January 1993
Rhyme 'Em To Death reconstructs the trial from Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame from a new perspective, that of a minor character - the goat.
17 April 1993
What was supposed to be summer school in England becomes an adventurous, exotic and romantic journey for a beautiful teenage girl.
21 July 1993
This documentary explores the life and times of Russell Dean Willey, a neo-Nazi supergrass, in order to explain the presence of Jack Van Tongeren's Australian Nationalists Movement in Australia, and its spread, especially in difficult economic times.
02 July 1993
A Romeo-and-Juliet-tale between the soccer-clubs of St. Pauli and Rostock.
01 January 1993
Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy.
08 December 1993
Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century.
05 May 1993
A woman with ‘no name and no country’ in search of a sense of belonging. Asked to write a script about her own experience, she constructs an ‘autobiography’ which is partly fiction.
26 May 1993
Stefano is now forty years old but has not yet found his purpose in life, remaining an eternal dreamer waiting for that decisive enlightenment.
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