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.
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...
From time immemorial, the people of the island used to leave the clothes of their dead to the sea, s...
An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.
16 Days in Afghanistan is a documentary that documents the state of Afghan people after the fall of ...
John Bishop and Naomi Bishop present a portrait a peculiar life style of the Himalayan indigenous Sh...
A documentary about the histoy and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric, and Samoyedic peoples. Speak...
Sequel to the "The Waterfowl People". The author interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural re...
A three-act film-essay about memory and the historical-cultural ties of the Finno- Ugric peoples. T...
In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to ...
"Shaman" was filmed on July the 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Pen...
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...
An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate...
In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most malign...
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...
Religious-based images and traditions permeate the lives of all the people who inhabit Seville. His...
CITIZEN SOLDIER is a dramatic feature film, told from the point of view of a group of Soldiers in th...
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo B...