Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on his family: Haji Omar, the patriarch; Anwar, the eldest, his father's favorite, a pastoralist and expert horseman; Jannat Gul, cultivator and ambitious rebel; and Ismail, the youngest, attending school with a view to a job as a government official.
Séfar (in Arabic: سيفار) is an ancient city in the heart of the Tassili n'Ajjer mountain range in Al...
Mina Bakhshi, Haniya Tavasoli and Rabia Hussain had a fair amount of latitude for women in Afghanist...
Afghanistan, immediately post-9/11: Small teams of Green Berets arrive on a series of secret mission...
IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, p...
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo B...
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti...
Armed only with their cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, an...
The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New W...
Key decision makers reveal the inside story of how the West was drawn ever deeper into the Afghan wa...
Mark Urban tells the inside story of Britain's fight for Helmand, told with unique access to the gen...
"Shaman" was filmed on July the 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Pen...
Inside the Khmer Rouge takes an in-depth look at the history, domination, and current status of the ...
Bomb Hunters is an engrossing examination of the micro-economy that has emerged in Cambodia from unt...
An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate...
Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baoba...
Ju/'hoan women often share an intimate sociability and spend many hours together discussing their li...
This film depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great-uncle...
During the 1980s, Russia fought a disastrous war in Afghanistan. Shot by a Western crew, the 40 minu...
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...