We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice is a 2016 Canadian documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin about the First Nations activist Cindy Blackstock and her court case against the federal government of Canada for underfunding social services to children living on First Nations reserves. We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice is the 49th film that Obomsawin has directed for the National Film Board of Canada—with her 50th, Norway House, in production.