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.
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti...
Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes fro...
Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghan...
An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate...
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...
Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be tra...
Women from three separate Ju/'hoan bands have gathered at a mangetti grove at !O to play an intense ...
Ju/'hoan women often share an intimate sociability and spend many hours together discussing their li...
This film depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great-uncle...
As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central M...
"Heart of the Country" is the story of Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural ele...
A celebration of the diversity of Ethiopia's culture and wildlife. It journeys from North to South -...
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...
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...
The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New W...