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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

When NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the Afghan National Army (ANA) took over control of Helm...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...
A wild and funny documentary showing how the progressive youth of Afghanistan are rejecting the use ...

An Iranian diplomat who miraculously survived Taliban's raid on the Iranian consulate in Mazar E Sha...

'Afghanistan 1979: the war that changed the world', is a French documentary about the Sovjet invasio...

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