An ethnographic documentary about the Mangbetu tribe of the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The film features a discussion of various rites including the Mangbetu practice of head binding, as well as various examples of traditional music and dance.

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words...

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...

In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who th...

This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...

Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threa...

A rare documentary made in Brussels in the early nineties collecting witnesses on how local and Cong...

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...

Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teach...

Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials ...
The first of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board o...

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, port...

Sexual violence against women is a very effective weapon in modern warfare: instills fear and spread...

The extraordinary life story of science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) who...