"Shaman" was filmed on July the 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Peninsula, at the Avam river, concurrently with the shooting of the documentary "The Winds of the Milky Way". The Nganasan Shaman Demnime (1913-1980) was 64 years old at the time. The documentary about Demnime's incarnation ritual was completed 20 years later. The fifth and final documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Uricarum" series.

For centuries, Stonehenge has been cloaked in mystery. Who built it? How did they do it? Why did the...

Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes fro...
Filmmaker Kevin McMahon accompanies the Haida delegation on a repatriation trip to Chicago in 2003. ...

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

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

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

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

Really strange documentary of Wheeler Dixon production quality on the Tunguska Event and the possibi...

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

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

This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theat...

Imagine one of the most remote wildernesses in the world. Granddaughter Masha and Vladimir, the prot...

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

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

In 1968, the fury and violence of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago propelled us toward ...

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's...

In 1829 the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt attempted a russian-siberian expedition. Humboldt trav...

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...