We Were Children

We Were Children

We Were Children


(7.5 from 8 users)

1h 28m 2012 HD

Watch we were children FMovies. For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of Canada's First Nations children were legally required to attend government-funded schools run by various Christian faiths. There were 80 of these 'residential schools' across the country. Most children were sent to faraway schools that separated them from their families and traditional land. These children endured brutality, physical hardship, mental degradation, and the complete erasure of their culture. The schools were part of a wider program of assimilation designed to integrate the native population into 'Canadian society.' These schools were established with the express purpose 'To kill the Indian in the child.' Told through their own voices, 'We Were Children' is the shocking true story of two such children: Glen Anaquod and Lyna Hart.

We Were Children (2012)
Tags:   #We Were Children 2012   #We Were Children full movie   #Watch   #We Were Children online   #We Were Children online FMovies   #We Were Children Full movie online   #We Were Children FMoviesFree   #We Were Children FreeMovies     #residential school   #canadian history   #indigenous peoples

Comment

User

Related Movies

  • 2003
    The Secret World of Plants

    The Secret World of Plants

    The Secret World of Plants

    72003HD

    The secret world of plants gets us closer to these motionless and quiet creatures, so attractive and surprising as the rest of the living creatures....

    The Secret World of Plants
  • 2014
    LaDonna Harris: Indian 101

    LaDonna Harris: Indian 101

    LaDonna Harris: Indian 101

    12014HD

    A documentary film about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native political and social activism, and is now passing on...

    LaDonna Harris: Indian 101
  • 2004
    One of Many

    One of Many

    One of Many

    72004HD

    A woman with indiginous roots in her 40s goes on a trip into her past: When she was four years old she had been taken away from her mother by the...

    One of Many
  • 2017
    The Hector: From Scotland to Nova Scotia

    The Hector: From Scotland to Nova Scotia

    The Hector: From Scotland to Nova Scotia

    02017HD

    The story of the 1773 highland migrants who left Scotland to settle in Nova Scotia.

    The Hector: From Scotland to Nova Scotia
  • 2021
    Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle

    Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle

    Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle

    72021HD

    The AssimiNation is a political pamphlet portraying the indigenous Sámi people fighting for their existence. The film follows the on going...

    Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle
  • 2010
    Cry Rock

    Cry Rock

    Cry Rock

    02010HD

    The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the...

    Cry Rock
  • 2022
    The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence

    The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence

    The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence

    72022HD

    In 1587, more than 100 English colonists settle on Roanoke Island and soon vanish, baffling historians for centuries; now, experts use the latest...

    The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence
  • 2017
    Alsina's Trench

    Alsina's Trench

    Alsina's Trench

    62017HD

    Documentary film about the "zanja de Alsina", a long trench dug in the Argentinian Pampa in 1876 as way to separate the "civilized" from the...

    Alsina's Trench
  • 1989
    Son of Torum

    Son of Torum

    Son of Torum

    01989HD

    In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the...

    Son of Torum
  • 2022
    Thrown into Canada

    Thrown into Canada

    Thrown into Canada

    02022HD

    This documentary explores the history of Canada’s first major migration of non-European and non-white refugees who arrived in 1972 when Ugandan...

    Thrown into Canada
  • 2024
    The Stand

    The Stand

    The Stand

    02024HD

    Mixing animation with a wealth of archival footage, Chris Auchter’s film explores the 1985 dispute over clearcut logging on Haida Gwaii. On one...

    The Stand
  • 1970
    Highway of Tears

    Highway of Tears

    Highway of Tears

    01970HD

    Discover the endless highway in British Columbia where over 40 indigenous women and girls (by unofficial estimates) have disappeared since the 1970s.

    Highway of Tears