A documentary about the histoy and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric, and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari, and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The footage was shot in Altai Krai, the Nenets Okrug, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari el, Karelia, and Estonia. The first documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Ugricarum (1970 - 1997)" series.

John Bishop and Naomi Bishop present a portrait a peculiar life style of the Himalayan indigenous Sh...

This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theat...
A dark and magical visit to the fabled Parisian address Rue Fontaine 42. This was the residence of A...

An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.

Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, Etched in Bone explores the impact of one noto...
Captain Kleinschmidt leads an expedition sponsored by the Carnegie Museum to the arctic regions of A...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...

The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New W...

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most malign...

Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...

Religious-based images and traditions permeate the lives of all the people who inhabit Seville. His...

This documentary follows three couples to see how things turned out several years after their weddin...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...

The real estate industry has destabilized the natural surroundings of the city of Concón, on the Chi...

From time immemorial, the people of the island used to leave the clothes of their dead to the sea, s...

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is d...

An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It f...

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...

A century ago the Torres Strait Island were the subjects of the famous Cambridge Anthropological Exp...