First-time feature filmmakers Heretu Tetahiotupa, Christophe Cordier delve into the ritual art of Marquesan tattoo, sharing its cultural and historical significance by reenacting the past and challenging the present.

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Walt Disney Animation Studios' MOANA, as aided by the Oc...

The odyssey of a Tuamutu fisherman who sets out from his atoll-only coral island to procure fertile ...

"Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Scandinavian scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl,...

This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Pol...

The Work completes the "quadrilogy" of South Seas seen over a twenty-year period. This film, tells t...

A documentary about the rival gangs Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, originating in Los Angeles but ter...

Kua and Teriki will soon get married. They live on the distant Tureia island in the French Polynesia...

Documentary based on interviews during the Birmingham Tattoo Convention in the early '90s.

Marlon Brando is best known for his successful films and two Oscars. But his link with French Polyne...

In March 2018, elite tattoo artists from across the globe came together in Chattanooga, Tennessee to...

A terrible accident leaves a young soldier horribly scarred, but his rediscovery of art heals his wo...

Gombessa Expedition 4 Laurent Ballesta went to observe a gathering of thousands of groupers during ...

Stories of people who regard augmenting their bodies as a way of life, whether for artistic reasons ...

The history of surfing is like one long ride in which surfers relay the baton to each other across t...

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, port...
A collection of footage and interviews with strange people and their exploration into the unusual an...
A look into the world of body piercing and suspension and the people who do it.
Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/direc...

In French Polynesia, there is a place where every year, thousands of groupers gather in secret follo...