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Movies: Best "assimilation" Movies

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Gaia(2021)

R
| 1h 35min | Horror, Fantasy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 73 votes)

A park ranger takes shelter with two survivalists after an attack by mysterious creatures in a primordial forest.

The Mission(1986)

PG
| 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Action, History
3.7/5 (with 598 votes)

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

Directed by Roland Joffé - With Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi, Liam Neeson, ...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee(2007)

2h 5min | Western, Drama, History, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 48 votes)

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.

Directed by Yves Simoneau - With Adam Beach, Anna Paquin, Chevez Ezaneh, August Schellenberg, Aidan Quinn, Colm Feore, ...
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Indian Horse(2018)

1h 36min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.

Directed by Stephen Campanelli - With Sladen Peltier, Edna Manitowabi
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Krotoa(2017)

2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner and the first Governor of the Cape Colony. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential translator but ends up being rejected by her own people as she tries to bridge the gap between the two cultures about to collide.

Directed by Roberta Durrant - With Crystal Donna Roberts, Armand Aucamp, Jacques Bessenger, Brendon Daniels, Deon Lotz, Marcel van Heerden, ...

Ocean of Pearls(2008)

1h 37min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a tradition he's maintained his whole life and cuts his hair. Hiding this decision from his girlfriend and family in Toronto is only the start of a series of compromises Amrit finds himself making as he deals with hospital politics and health care injustices. When his compromises result in the death of a patient, Amrit begins to reexamine the value of the religious traditions he'd turned his back on.

Directed by Sarab Neelam - With Navi Rawat, Brenda Strong, Rena Owen, Heather McComb, Ron Canada, Dennis Haskins, ...

The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West(1916)

35min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

The Curse of Quon Gwon is the oldest known Chinese-American film and one of the earliest American silent features made by a woman. Only two reels of the film survive, and no intertitles are known to exist, making it difficult to parse out the exact plot. An article in the July 17, 1917 issue of The Moving Picture World states that the film "deals with the curse of a Chinese god that follows his people because of the influence of western civilization." The film also touches on themes of Chinese assimilation into American society. Formally premiering in 1917, no distributor was willing to purchase a Chinese-American film without racial stereotypes. Considered a devastating financial failure, the film was only screened two more times until its rediscovery in 2004.

Directed by Marion E. Wong

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas(2017)

52min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream – a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one day a year, make us believe.

Directed by Larry Weinstein

Being There(2017)

1h 33min | Drama

Escaping war, a Syrian writer seeks asylum in Germany with his family. On the escape route he lost his wife so that only he and his daughter are left. Once they are settled in a refugee camp, he is forced to give his daughter to a German family. A moving story of forced assimilation and the struggle of the refugee in the modern world.