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Movies About Colonizing the Americas: Pocahontas

By moviejourneys On August 17, 2014 · Add Comment · In Atlantic Shores, North America

It has been hard to find Hollywood movies about the first two footholds of European colonies on North American shores. There is a movie called Hurricane Island (1951), which has been unavailable. You can find, however, a good overview of the movie on the TCM website. It is the story of Ponce de León and [...]

Movies of the Pacific Northwest (U.S.)

By moviejourneys On August 7, 2014 · Add Comment · In North America, Southwest & Northwest

Apart from In the Land of the War Canoes (1914), and the closing scenes of Dead Man (1970), I could find no Hollywood movies with scenes of life among the Indians of today’s Oregon and Washington State. See Indigenous Canada, for the 1914 film, and Revisionist Westerns for the one from 1970. The two films below, set [...]

Movies of the Southwest

By moviejourneys On July 12, 2014 · Add Comment · In North America, Southwest & Northwest, Uncategorized

During several years of bookings at the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque, I made visits to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and modern Pueblo sites such as Chaco, Taos, Acoma, Kuaua and others. My goal was to acquire an outsider’s understanding of what tribes trace their roots to the ancient pueblos and which of [...]

Movies of the Great Plains

By moviejourneys On June 9, 2014 · Add Comment · In Mounds & Plains, North America, Uncategorized

The Gateway Arch sits on the western shore of the Mississippi River at St. Louis. Dedicated in 1968, it crowns the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial complex on the spot where the Louisiana Purchase was concluded in 1803 and the Louis and Clark expedition commenced in 1804. Visitors can climb into tram capsules, five to a [...]

Final Battles on the American Plains: Custer

By moviejourneys On May 19, 2014 · Add Comment · In Mounds & Plains, North America

Wikipedia lists over 30 movies about General Custer. Almost all of them indicate a clear emphasis on his death at Little Big Horn. How many other iconic deaths in the history of the world could hope to score anything near that number of Hollywood films? A quick survey on the Internet revealed that there are [...]

Indigenous Canada

By moviejourneys On April 30, 2014 · Add Comment · In Canada, North America

In the Land of the War Canoes (1914) This remarkable ethnographic documentary records a reenactment of a legend by Kwakiutl Indians in the area of Vancouver, British Colombia. Made by Edward S. Curtis, it predates Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North by eight years. Both of these films took criticism for the intervention of the filmmaker [...]

Historical Canada

By moviejourneys On April 30, 2014 · Add Comment · In Canada, North America

There are some hard to find and not-so-well-known films establishing the foundations of Canadian history among fur trappers, whiskey traders, missionaries, soldiers, and government representatives from France and Britain. First Nations people are generally seen only in the background being exploited for furs, plied with liquor and enlisted by one side or the other in [...]

Post-Paradigm Canada

By moviejourneys On April 30, 2014 · Add Comment · In Canada, North America

Post-Paradigm Canada: Looking Down on America Two movies from my Archive span the period from 1968 through the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Each of them employs the Forest Gump technique in its own way, setting its foreground action against the background of real historical events. The first of these [...]

Movies About Ancient Mexico and Conquest

By moviejourneys On March 17, 2014 · Add Comment · In Mexico, North America

Kings of the Sun (1963) Found this movie by accident while working on migrations in Hawaii, June 2010. It opens with a large ceremony at the great pyramid of Chichen Itzá on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. A narration speaks of the high level of civilization of the Maya people, even as the great cultures [...]

Colonial Legacy: Movies of Revolutionary Mexico

By moviejourneys On March 17, 2014 · Add Comment · In Mexico, North America

The final efforts of the Mexican people to throw off European domination were accomplished in 1867, during the time of Benito Juarez (1806-72), who would become the country’s first indigenous president. The Spaniards had been driven out of power in 1821 and a brief period of republic had seen the loss of half the country [...]

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