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.
Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a ...

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushm...

Ñaalec (Fabián Valdez) is a Moqoit college student disenchanted with formal ways of learning and emb...
Short ethnographic documentary on the Tetela tribe in Congo based upon footage and commentary by dir...
Short ethnographic documentary showing a leopard dance based upon footage shot by director Luc de He...
Short ethnographic documentary showing some everyday life scenes based upon footage shot by director...

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small...
A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central M...
The first Easter Island documentary, filmed in 1935 when the Belgian naval ship Mercator came to col...

Remember the culture clash in THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY? This time it's real. One of the most ancient c...

With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turb...

David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this et...
“The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whi...
A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

A documentary about the daily life of a native Tzotzil community in southern Mexico, shot over a per...

Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people

An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.
A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her...