Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation
1995•53m•9.0•Released
Documentary
In 1953 the Canadian government relocated Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic, promising an abundance of game and fish and assuring them they could return home after two years if things didn't work out. They would not see their ancestral lands for 30 years. Abandoned in flimsy tents, the Inuit were left to fend for themselves in the desolate settlements of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord, where the sea was nearly always frozen and darkness reigned for months on end.
Director
Patricia V. Tassinari
Writer
Erna Buffie
Languages
English, Inuktitut
Studio
Nutaaq Média Inc.
Cast
Erna Buffie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Brian Dooley
Voice
George Hargrave
Voice
Jimmy Mark
Voice
Judith Merritt
Voice
Urutuq Ningiurluut
Voice
July Papatsie
Voice
Eva Pilurtuut
Voice
Paul Stewart
Voice
Production
Company
Nutaaq Média Inc.
Company
ONF | NFB
Producer
Barrie Howells
Producer
George Hargrave
Recommended
7.2
In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
7.5
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2018
6.9
Miss Representation
2011
7.1
IMAX Hubble
2010
6.3
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
2025
7.5
The Red Pill
2016
7.9
13th
2016
7.8
OLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film)
2022
7.2
To Be Takei
2014
7.9
Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show
2025
6.2
This Changes Everything
2019
6.8
Time
2020
6.4
Fuck
2006
6.9
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
6.4
The Captains
2011
7.5
RBG
2018
7
Western Stars
2019
6.9
We Live in Public
2009
7.7
Citizenfour
2014
7.5
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
2019
Similar Movies
10
Pranks!
1988
6
For Thomas Wainggai
1991
My Louisiana Love
2012
1
Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
2009
6.6
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
2016
5
The Pearl
2016
10
Money & Life
2013
La otra educación
2012
We The People 2.0
2016
8
Una pasión llamada Clara Lair
1996
Manos a la obra: The Story of Operation Bootstrap
1983
8
Julia, toda en mí
2002
8
Helen’s War: Portrait of a Dissident
2004
7.4
Angry Inuk
2016
6.3
MonaLisa Story
2016
7.6
Tickling Giants
2017
6.3
Bad Rap
2016
4.9
Check It
2016
Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey
2006
5.3
Memories of a Penitent Heart
2016