The Ballad of Crowfoot

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The Ballad of Crowfoot

1968

Documentary

Musical

Short Film

10m

Using entirely still photographs from the Nineteenth Century, a folk sings a song about the great Blackfoot Chief of the Canadian West, Crowfoot. It tells his story as the rise of a great warrior, but he was unable to protect his people from the treachery and the exploitation of the White civilization who were bent on stealing their land and subduing them. (imdb)

Directed by:

Willie Dunn

Starring:

Willie Dunn

Genres:

Documentary, Musical

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

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The Ballad of Crowfoot

1968

Documentary

Musical

Short Film

10m

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Nilbog

Rated 15 Oct 2015

A very unique and interesting way of telling a very important story. Highly recommended.

Rated 15 Oct 2015

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Seethruskin

Rated 06 Jul 2015

I'm not sure white people would like this as much, but fuck 'em!

Rated 06 Jul 2015

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Darren

Rated 21 Jun 2015

Pure cinema

Rated 21 Jun 2015

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iconogassed

Rated 05 Nov 2020

NFB SHORT A DAY #4: powerful, innovative essay on Canada's subjugation of its Indigenous peoples, set to director Dunn's own epic folk tune about the titular chief, who paid for government lies with his children's blood. '68 also saw the release of Zager & Evans' "In the Year 2525", which features a linear year-naming narrative like Dunn's song. One consists of campy sci-fi fantasies of what white man's reason might cost us all; the other, lived history of what, from whom & where, it already has

Rated 05 Nov 2020

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