Bones of Crows

6.8(14)20232h 2m

DramaHistory

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.

Director

Marie Clements

Budget

$19.0M

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Cast

Grace Dove

Aline Spears

Phillip Forest Lewitski

Adam Whallach

Rémy Girard

Father Jacobs

Karine Vanasse

Sister Ruth

Alyssa Wapanatâhk

Perseverance Spears

Michelle Thrush

January Spears

Glen Gould

Matthew Spears

Gail Maurice

Older Taylor Whallach

Carla-Rae

Older Aline Spears

Cara Gee

Percy Whallach

Jonathan Whitesell

Thomas Miller

Patrick Garrow

Archbishop Thomas Miller

Reviews

1 review

ALIbambam

8mo ago

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 Roman Catholic run residential school. What sets this story apart from others is the complex tellin...