The film follows Ongka's struggles to accumulate huge numbers of pigs and other items of value to present at a Moka ceremony to another tribe.

This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theat...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...
"Heart of the Country" is the story of Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural ele...

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

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...

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

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

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

Religious-based images and traditions permeate the lives of all the people who inhabit Seville. His...

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

What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unaccultura...

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...

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

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

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

A century ago the Torres Strait Island were the subjects of the famous Cambridge Anthropological Exp...