John Bishop and Naomi Bishop present a portrait a peculiar life style of the Himalayan indigenous Sherpa people in their documentary , the Himalayan Herders. The 76 minutes long film is about the diverse culture and life style of herders community near Mt. Everest region of Nepal.The film was made in 1997 as a part of Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology Series.
"Heart of the Country" is the story of Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural ele...
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...
Bomb Hunters is an engrossing examination of the micro-economy that has emerged in Cambodia from unt...
Inside the Khmer Rouge takes an in-depth look at the history, domination, and current status of the ...
An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate...
A celebration of the diversity of Ethiopia's culture and wildlife. It journeys from North to South -...
The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New W...
The darkness of the mine, invaded by the miners' light, by the noisy machines and the permanent and ...
Séfar (in Arabic: سيفار) is an ancient city in the heart of the Tassili n'Ajjer mountain range in Al...
Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be tra...
Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghan...
One of the most significant cases in European archaeology is the grave of the shaman woman of Bad Dü...
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti...
IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, p...
Huelva, Spain, an isolated region lost in time. The grass, the sand and the sky are the same that th...
In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most malign...
Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baoba...
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...
Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes fro...