A Thousand Roads
# Though we journey down a thousand roads, all our roads lead home.
๐ Overview:
The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child. Each story explores what it means to belong to a specific community. A Thousand Roads is a fictional work, produced by National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) to explore the human context of the NMAIโs collections. The film is striking visually, and presents through its beauty and its stories an imaginative entry into knowing about Native people living in the vast indigenous geography that comprises the Americas. Rather than presenting a conventional historical perspective, the film is composed of short contemporary fictions about individuals, grounding them in emotional truths to which an audience can easily relate.
๐ต Budget: USD
3,100,000
๐ Languages Available:
English
๐ Date Released:
2005-01-23
โ Running Time:
40 mins
โญ Vote Average:
7.0
Beloved Cast
Narrator (voice)
John Trudell
Amanda Cook
Alex Rice
Johnny Chee
Jeremiah Bitsui
Johnny Chee's Girlfriend
Candice Costello
Geraldine Keams
Dawn
Riana Malabed
Honorato Nanatay