We Were Children

Name: We Were Children
Genre: Drama
Released: 2013-03-03
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Lyna Hart, Glen Anaquod, Alicia Hamelin

2012
1h 28m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

735

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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. Most children were sent to faraway schools that separated them from their families and traditional land.

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Lyna and Glen, indigenous Canadian children, experience years of mistreatment at a residential school, depicting a harsh reality faced by many in the past.Lyna and Glen, indigenous Canadian children, experience years of mistreatment at a residential school, depicting a harsh reality faced by many in the past.Lyna and Glen, indigenous Canadian children, experience years of mistreatment at a residential school, depicting a harsh reality faced by many in the past.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

735

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations

Featured review

8/10

An important film. I had no idea.

Pediphiles in the Catholic Church. Cruelty in the Catholic Church. This time innocent Native American children are victims of terrible crimes. Taken from their homes and abused in the name of God. These were not Gods people. Quite the opposite. Their reckoning must have been blazing.