Oka series

4 movies

Alanis Obomsawin's series on the 1990 Oka crisis

Movies

Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

1993

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.

Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

1993

7.4

My Name Is Kahentiiosta

8.0

1995

Movie

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.

My Name Is Kahentiiosta

1995

8.0

Spudwrench - Kahnawake Man

7.0

1998

Movie

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.

Spudwrench - Kahnawake Man

1998

7.0

Rocks at Whiskey Trench

6.3

2000

Movie

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.

Rocks at Whiskey Trench

2000

6.3