Movies / TV with an Indigenous Female Lead

Anxiety-ridden Millie is on her way from Wellington to New York for an internship at a prestigious architecture firm when a moment of panic causes her to miss her flight.

When Kelly and Craig become parents to an orphaned joey, they are forced to consider what it would mean to be actual parents - of an Aboriginal child.

Detective Toni Alma is assigned to investigate a suspicious car accident in Perdar Theendar, the Indigenous community she left as a child and has had little to do with over the years.

Based on true events in the early 1900s Wild West, Willie Boy falls in love with Carlota from the Chemehuevi tribe despite being forbidden to be together. A fatal incident forces the young couple to flee the only place they know as home.

A biopic of the trailblazing Maori leader, Dame Whina Cooper, whose extraordinary life saw her break gender boundaries, champion the rights of Maori, and fight for the land - all the while staying true to her heart and her beliefs.

Preppers follows Charlie, a young Aboriginal woman who, after suffering her own personal cataclysmic event, finds herself at the centre of a mismatched community of 'preppers' planning for the apocalypse at Eden 2.

Faith has it all as a mother and wife, but a year after what she believes was a car accident, Faith discovers that she is an Army special ops lieutenant with classified information.

After her divorce, Connie (Sheena Peña) and her daughter relocate to Hawaii to get a fresh start and be close to Connie's sister. Connie works at a hotel, but because of the expensive divorce and custody battle, Connie has a second job as a high-end escort named Veronica. Connie keeps her alter ego a secret from everyone in her life, justifying her second job as the best way to maintain the lifestyle she and her daughter have always enjoyed. But Connie finds herself enjoying being an escort as a way to let loose from her usual buttoned-up persona. Connie is able to keep her two worlds separate until her daughter goes missing. When she discovers her ex-husband is not the culprit, Connie must confess to her sister about her second job and the many men Veronica has become involved with, including William (Jim Klock), a possessive man who claims to love Veronica.

An intimate and compassionate observational documentary from the perspective of a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy in Alice Springs, Australia, struggling to balance his traditional Arrernte/Garrwa upbringing with a state education.

Mele Murals is a documentary on the transformative power of modern graffiti art and ancient Hawaiian culture for a new generation of Native Hawaiians. At the center of the story are two renowned street artists - Estria Miyashiro (aka Estria) and John Hina (aka Prime) - a group of Native Hawaiian youth, and the rural community of Waimea. Set against the resurgence of Hawaiian language and culture of the past twenty years, Estria and Prime tell how their street art has taken them on personal journeys to discover their history, identity and responsibilities as Hawaiian people. Estria, who left Hawai'i to study art in San Francisco, made a name for himself as an internationally known graffiti artist before returning to reconnect with his Hawaiian roots. Prime, who grew up in the projects and became one of the first kings of the Honolulu graffiti scene, left a life of hustling and drugs after the birth of his first child and returned to the art when he realized it was a way to help youth. Through the stories of these two graffiti artists and their joint quest to uphold Hawaiian culture through mural-making, Mele Murals shows how public art rooted in underground graffiti unexpectedly but powerfully fuses with Native Hawaiian traditions and contemporary life to impact the students, the town of Waimea, and most of all the artists.

An in-depth look at the life and work of Cherokee Nation chief, Wilma Mankiller.

Cree code talker Aline Spears survives her traumatic past in Canada's residential school system to continue her family's generational fight against systemic starvation, racism and sexual abuse.

Follows a South London family and how one red dress is the center of their lives.

Rosa, an Indigenous girl on Chiloé Island, seeks justice after her father is attacked by the farm foreman. She turns to a powerful sorcerers' organization, led by their king, for help in the late 19th century.

A political thriller during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activist are arrested and maintain in custody in a sheriff's office. They will meet a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie star who is also an activist.

Elizabeth Carter will again stop at nothing to find her perfect family, but her dangerous past catches up to her when the families she's ruined seek to put an end to her terrorism.

Set in the fictional fly-in community of Grouse Lake First Nation in Northern Manitoba. After falling flat on his face in the big city of Winnipeg, Paul tries to slip back into his community unnoticed.

A journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent's most iconic landscapes, tracing the mammal's evolution.

It follows a group of recruits over the course of a year as they make their way through the Navajo Police Training Academy and out into the field, where they must deal with rising crime to keep their community together.

A wildly talented girls high school soccer team become the unlucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Canadian wilderness.

A half-hour comedy-drama about four young women discovering how to be Mohawk in the 21st century.

An Indiana family discovers strange, demonic occurrences that convince them and their community that the house is a portal to hell.

Dive Club follows the story of a feisty group of teen divers who search for their friend when she disappears after a cyclone hits Cape Mercy, their small coastal town.

An Irish detective teams up with a Kiwi cop to find an Irish couple who have vanished from a rural New Zealand town. The pair have to contend with a community's growing disquiet that the disappearances may be linked to a series of historical murders.

When a girl finds a lost horse she enters a barrel racing competition and becomes champion.