Miss Navajo
Newly Added
•
59m
Directed by Billy Luther • 2007 • United States
For more than fifty years, Navajo people have gathered in the capital of the Navajo Nation to witness the Miss Navajo Nation beauty pageant. This illuminating documentary traces twenty-one-year-old Crystal Frazier’s quest to win the Miss Navajo crown, along the way exploring the important role of women in Diné culture. Interweaving personal stories of past winners, MISS NAVAJO follows a new group of contestants as they showcase their skills in everything from dance to music to sheep slaughtering.
Up Next in Newly Added
-
Faces, Displays, and Other Imaginary ...
Directed by Woodrow Hunt • 2020 • United States
A familiar route is remapped to contemplate and remember the complicated past of Indigenous labor in the Pacific Northwest.
-
The Blue Gardenia
Directed by Fritz Lang • United States • 1953
Starring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann SothernNoir master Fritz Lang brings his hard-hitting style to this gripping thriller based on a short story by LAURA writer Vera Caspary. When LA switchboard operator Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) is given the...
-
Lessons of Darkness
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1992 • Germany
“The collapse of the stellar universe will occur–like creation–in grandiose splendor,” announces the quote (attributed to Blaise Pascal, but actually invented by the director) that begins Werner Herzog’s terrifyingly beautiful rumination on the ravaged ...
