- Description:
- BluRay - Multi-Zone. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
Titles
+ Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
- Director:
- Obomsawin, Alanis
- Production Co:
- ONF | NFB
- Running Time:
- Feature. 119 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - DTS-HD Master Audio
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1993
- Language:
- English, Mohawk, English (SDH)
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- 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.
Disc includes commentary featuring director Alanis Obomsawin and professor Monika Kin Gagnon
+ My Name is Kahentiiosta
- Director:
- Obomsawin, Alanis
- Production Co:
- ONF | NFB
- Running Time:
- Short. 30 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - DTS-HD Master Audio
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1995
- Language:
- English, English (SDH)
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- This documentary short by Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman arrested after the Oka Crisis’ 78-day armed standoff in 1990. She was detained 4 days longer than the other women. Her crime? The prosecutor representing the Quebec government did not accept her indigenous name.
+ Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man
- Director:
- Obomsawin, Alanis
- Production Co:
- ONF | NFB
- Running Time:
- Short. 58 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - DTS-HD Master Audio
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1997
- Language:
- English, English (SDH)
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- This documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin introduces us to Randy Horne, a high steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near Montreal. As a defender of his people’s culture and traditions, he was known as “Spudwrench” during the 1990 Oka crisis. Offering a unique look behind the barricades at one man’s impassioned defence of sacred territory, the film is both a portrait of Horne and the generations of daring Mohawk construction workers that have preceded him.
+ Rocks at Whiskey Trench
- Director:
- Obomsawin, Alanis
- Production Co:
- ONF | NFB
- Running Time:
- Feature. 106 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - DTS-HD Master Audio
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 2000
- Language:
- English, English (SD)
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- The fourth film in Alanis Obomsawin’s landmark series on the Oka crisis uses a single, shameful incident as a lens through which to examine the region’s long history of prejudice and injustice against the Mohawk population.