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.
"Heart of the Country" is the story of Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural ele...

John Bishop and Naomi Bishop present a portrait a peculiar life style of the Himalayan indigenous Sh...
This film is a glimpse of the traditional life of the Afghan people, their culture and their music, ...

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

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

"Inside the Talibans" - What will happen if the Talibans return to power? Swedish journalist Magda G...

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art...

An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo B...

French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star w...
Annie Goldson and Kay Ellmers’ doco, expanded from the film they made for Maori Television, takes a ...

A deep dive into contemporary Brazilian music. Guided by the composer, anthropologist and ethnomusic...

Men and women in the Horn of Africa and adjiacent regions of the Middle East tell stories of their r...

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...

The friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afgha...

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

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...