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Bones of Crows

Bones of Crows

6.8/ 10

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14

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2023

Release Year

122 min

Runtime

Drama
History

Overview

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

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Keywords

indigenous
world war ii
period drama
historical
roman catholic church
residential school
first nations
abused child
forced schooling

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ALIbambam

ALIbambam

July 17, 2025

Writer, Producer and Director Marie Clements' complex and fast-paced movie Bones of Crows has captured the complex effects of Canadian residential schools' legacy of abuse through the voice of Aline Spears (Grace Dove), a Cree woman forced to endure sexual, physical and emotional abuse at a Canadian

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