| Films, movies,
videos |
| Nordic Anthropological Film Association |
| The Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) is an organization for cooperation within the field of visual anthropology and has been active since the early seventies. |
| Films by Andrei Golovnev, a Russian anthropologist |
| Two films tell stories about Chukchi and Nenets reindeer-herding everyday lives, rituals, myths. |
| "Taigana, The Last Reindeer People of Mongolia" |
| This documentary was produced in 1998 to bring notice to the struggle of the Reindeer herding tribes of Mongolia to maintain their ancient heritage and customs. Shot in Mongolia by Dino de Toffol and David Bellatalla of Italy. Select the text to read it. |
| Great North - IMAX film |
| With an Inuit guide, GREAT NORTH follows the herds of caribou through the Canadian North as they make their annual trek of more than 7,000 kilometres, which gives them the title of greatest migrating land mammal on Earth. |
| Eye Witness No. 25 |
| New Methods Feed the North: To defeat their ancient enemy, hunger, Inuit and Indians of Canada's north learn game conservation measures and Arctic gardening. |
| Canada's Reindeer |
| In 1935 a herd of 2,700 reindeer completed a five-year journey from Alaska to north of the Arctic circle. They were imported and re-settled by the Canadian Government in an effort to improve the economic conditions of the Inuit. |
| Sami Herders |
| The Mikkel Haette family leads an unusual life. Every year they spend six months in the subarctic wilderness, travelling from Finmark Plain up to the northern coast of Norway and back again. Their travelling companions are a herd of reindeer. |
| Caribou of Northern Canada |
| A study of the Barren Ground caribou of Canada's vast northern tundra regions. This film affords exceptionally close observation of these large antlered animals, singly and in herds, during their compulsive drift along well-defined routes. |
| Amarok's Song - The Journey to Nunavut |
| This is the story of the Caribou Inuit family who were Canada's last nomads. With the voices of three generations, they tell of their journey from an independent life hunting on the Keewatin tundra to the present. |
| Attiuk |
| To understand the life of the Montagnais, you have to walk twelve days on snowshoes as far as Lake Musquaro in search of the caribou. |
| Caribou Hunters |
| The Cree and Chippewa Indians of northern Manitoba lead a nomadic life as they roam the northern stretches of forest and tundra in search of the caribou that is their main source of food. |
| The Tsaatan - The Reindeer Riders |
| Set in the outermost limits of northern Mongolia, this film illustrates the life of Bat, the leader of the nomadic Tsaatan people, and his mutually enriching relationship with the reindeer. |
| The Catch |
| An unusual round-up, where caribou are the quarry and a low-flying plane is the pursuer. This film shows how a herd of caribou was corralled in the wilderness of sub-arctic Québec. |
| The Hunters (Asivaqtiin) |
| This film joins a hunting-party of inhabitants of the Frobisher Bay Correctional Centre. |
| At the Caribou Crossing Place: Part 2 |
| Part of a series on the Netsilik Inuit as documented by the Education Development Center. In this part, two men join the four people at camp. The men build a row of inukshuit, manlike figures which they use to deflect the oncoming caribou into the water. |
| Man the Hunter [Caribou] |
| The seasonal cycle of caribou hunting by the Netsilik Inuit is shown as an example of the general lifestyles of hunting societies. |
| Tuktu and the Caribou Hunt |
| When the caribou cross the small lakes to reach new grazing ground, the Inuit hunt the animals from their kayaks. |
| Wild Encounters: Caribou - Ghost of the North |
| From the tiny Peary caribou in the High Arctic to the secretive woodland caribou of the boreal forest, the different races carry out their centuries-old traditions. |
| Netsilik Eskimos Series |
| These films reveal live reality of traditional Eskimo life before the European acculturation. The Netsilik Eskimos of the Pelly Bay region in the Canadian Arctic had long lived apart from other people and had depended entirely on the land for survival. |
| The Reindeer Thief |
| Like many St. Lawrence Island legends, this story is set in Siberia where Chukchi, the Reindeer People, live. |
| The Reindeer Queen |
| Through twists of fate, Sinrock Mary (Antisarlook), an Eskimo woman, became the owner of the largest reindeer herd in the north and the wealthiest woman in the territory. |
| The Herd |
| In the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the elderly Sami reindeer herder came out of retirement and led a herd of 3,000 reindeer across the tundra from Alaska to the Mackenzie River delta on the Beaufort Sea in Canada. |
| The Herd |
| Official press release about the movie's release. |
| Atanarjuat, the fast runner |
| Atanarjuat is Canada's first feature-length fiction film written, produced, directed, and acted by Inuit. |
| Sámi Films |
| An article detailing development of the Sami film-making. The works by Paul-Anders Simma are especially interesting and touch upon life of reindeer herding Sami. |
| The White Reindeer (Valkoinen Peura) |
| An ancient legend of Lapland tells of a cursed woman who is transformed into a white reindeer who wanders the snowfields of the Midnight Sun luring all hunters who cross her path to their deaths. |
| Living with reindeer |
| Two brothers from a large family of Sami herders in Finmark and their relation to traditional and modern knowlegde in their daily life through several seasons. |
| Nuhoniyeh: Our Story |
| A documentary that tells about the resettlement of a northern native community because the government was concerned about too much hunting pressure on a herd of caribou. |
| In Caribou Country: The Adventures of W.B. Cabot |
| W.B. Cabot made annual trips from 1903 - 1910 to Labrador, Canada, to meet the Innu, then known as the Naskapi, native people, an almost mythical band of caribou hunters who had minimal contact with the outside world. |
| Caribou in Danger |
| Online videoclip discussing the danger to caribou of industrial development |
| The Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board: A Model for Co-Management |
| The BQCMB commissioned the video in 1994 to capture on tape the board's ground-breaking history as a pioneer in co-management. |
| CSE in Caribou (Cerebrospinal Elaphostrongylosis) A teaching Video |
| This 22 minute video tape details the rationale for introducing reindeer into Canada, recounts the discovery of the parasite, and describes the life-cycle of E. rangiferi using computer animation. |
| Mike Nolan |
| A story of a one man's struggle to save the caribou herd on the Avalon Peninsula (the southern tip of Newfoundland). |
| Alaska: Dances of the Caribou |
| In this for-kids video Peer into the mysterious and majestic Alaskan wilderness as thousands of antlered caribou prepare to embark on their annual expedition to the North Slope of the Brooks Range. |
| Caribou Online Video clip |
| The Hinterland Who's Who wildlife vignettes were created by the Canadian Wildlife Service in the 1960s to raise public awareness about native bird and mammal species. Scroll down the page for link to Caribou video. |
| Denali Wilderness, Alaska |
| Set amidst the pristine wilderness of Denali National Park, this award-winning program lets you join moose, wolves, grizzly, bears and caribou in a four-season struggle for survival. |
| Alaska's Wildlife |
| Brown bears gorging on salmon, caribou on their ancient migration routes, Dall sheep scaling palisades, bull moose rutting, swans, bald eagles, puffins and even walruses are all paid a video visit. |
| Reindeer People, Nenets - A photo report from Discovery Channel |
| This video-photo report brings you to the back of beyond where you'll meet up with the Nenets reindeer herders, a people who are still living much as they did 500 years ago. Watch for online video clips (linked to photos) throughout the presentation. |
| Cree Hunters of Mistassini |
| For thousands of years, the Cree Indians of James Bay inhabited the northern Quebec forests - originally gathering wild rice, and later hunting, fishing, and trapping. |
| Caribou Calves: Struggle for Survival |
| An online video about Alaska' Caribou and research work on the caribou. Real Player file. |
| Caribou Online Video clip |
| Short clip of caribou in the wild. |
| Caribou Odyssey |
| This hunting video covers the history of the Quebec Labrador Caribou and its migratory patterns as well as an overall structure of Shefferville, Quebec caribou hunting operations. |
