Chris Eyre

Biography

An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, Chris Eyre gained national attention in 1998 with the movie Smoke Signals. People Magazine called him "the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time."

Directed

1. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Director
2. Friday Night Lights (2006) — Director
3. Dark Winds (2022) — Director
4. Smoke Signals (1998) — Director
5. American Experience (1988) — Director
6. Ishi's Return (2016) — Director
7. Hide Away (2011) — Director
8. Skins (2002) — Director
9. Skinwalkers (2002) — Director
10. Edge of America (2003) — Director
11. A Thief Of Time (2004) — Director
12. Jim Thorpe: Lit by Lightning (2025) — Director
13. A Thousand Roads (2005) — Director
14. We Shall Remain (2009) — Director
15. Memories of Miss O'Keeffe (2017) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Reel Injun (2010) — Self
2. Skins (2002) — Cop
3. Skinwalkers (2002) — Tribal Judge Amadeus Pinto
4. Wanderlust (2006) — Self
5. We Are Still Here (2021) — Self
6. Growing Native Alaska: People of the North (2018) — Self
7. Growing Native Northwest: Coast Salish (2018) — Self