The film tells two parallel stories. One, set in the present, tells of a pagent about the conquest of America, while the other, set in the 15th century, tells of a group of conquistadors coming ashore searching for gold. The film takes place in an unnamed country.
Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.
Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a ...
A meditative stroll through Sacramento landmarks, from the gentrified to the urban.
An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushm...
Remember the culture clash in THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY? This time it's real. One of the most ancient c...
Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people
Exploring individual responses to rapid social change, Cowboy and Maria in town follows the parallel...
A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small...
A revealing one-shot portrait of two Nepali newlyweds in a moment of rest and playful interaction, S...
The people and their labor are bound to the land in the cycle of activities to the sowing to the har...
An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.
As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central M...
About the "concheros", dancers in México City that keep aztec traditions alive.
This documentary looks at the stories of a few people in Aspen Colorado and how they contribute to t...
The first Easter Island documentary, filmed in 1935 when the Belgian naval ship Mercator came to col...
Short ethnographic documentary on the Tetela tribe in Congo based upon footage and commentary by dir...
This provocative and profound film documents the Choqela ceremony, an agricultural ritual and song o...
“One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. I...