In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance, song, festive clothing, and drink—including the sacred tea ayahuasca.
Peru is a country of many contrasts. From the cold waters of the Coast over the 6000 m high Andes to...
Documentation of the preparations and expeditions of the Frente de Atração Arara da Funai, in the st...
An intimate documentary portrait of world-class improvisational and traditional pianist Mike Garson ...
Anthropologist and filmmaker João Meirinhos travels in Peruvian Amazonia to speak with healers who w...
During the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 20th century, ethnic Manchu people were persecut...
In the frigid waters off of Russia’s Bering Strait, Inuit and Chukchi hunters today still seek out t...
In the heart of the Amazon, Tauary (Brazil) inhabitants invite us to listen to the sounds of the jun...
This documentary is an offbeat "road movie" in which acclaimed documentarian Heddy Honigmann travels...
Heddy Honigmann returns to her birthplace of Lima, Peru to reacquaint herself with a place and peopl...
Musicwood is an adventure-filled journey, a political thriller with music at its heart. An unusual b...
Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.
Struggling with a mid-life crisis, Robert Oelman leaves his psychology career in the early 1990s to ...
Diabetes. Prostate cancer. Alcoholism. Parkinson's diseases. Just a handful of many common illnesses...
The grand opening dedication ceremony of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American Histo...
This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii...
The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the...
Because we're only doing this once, and because we know not everyone could get tickets, we are proud...
Filmmaker Michal Siewierski embarks on an audacious journey to expose the real reasons behind the Am...