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.

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

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

The four Afghan refugees who have applied for asylum in Austria strike up the song, “The caravan mov...

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...
In March 2001, the ruling Taliban destroyed Afghanistan's foremost tourist attraction, the 1600 year...

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

Mr. Burbridge's party slew three giant gorillas, one weighing something like 450 pounds. Two of thes...

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

An insight into a girls' school in Afghanistan which imposes an even stricter interpretation of Isla...

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

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...

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

Controversal documentary focusing on events in Afghanistan in 2002 in which Danish soldiers handed o...

This film - without commentary and simply accompanied by local music - relates the 1969 ascent of th...

Inside the Khmer Rouge takes an in-depth look at the history, domination, and current status of the ...
Documentary exploring the experience of Soviet soldiers during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

Stand up comedian Graham Elwood's journey physically, and emotionally, as he travels through Afghani...

Against a backdrop of war and poverty, Out of the Ashes, traces the extraordinary journey of a team ...