Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988 (2003)
• January 1st, 2003 • 0h 32min
Documentary, History
Overview
The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the still-intact museum in 1988: ancient Greco-Roman art and antiquitied of Hellenistic civilization, as well as Buddhist sculpture that was said to have mythology--the art of Gandhara, Bamiyan, and Shotorak among them. After the fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1992, some seventy percent of the contents of the museum was destroyed, stolen, or smuggled overseas to Japan and other countries. The movement to return these items is also touched upon. The footage in this video represents that only film documentation of the Kabul Museum ever made.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Night
Released on: 1985-05-08
Documentary
An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads...
More Dangerous Than Dynamite
Released on: 1941-11-07
Documentary
A short film warning the unaware housewife of the dangers of “dry cleaning” with gasoline at home.
Closeness to the Land
Released on: 2022-05-21
Documentary
In 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Gazala purchased land in western Ohio, on which sits a ...
Yellow Fever
Released on: 2012-09-01
Animation, Documentary
What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines ani...
Studio 2
Released on: 2022-12-05
Documentary, Comedy
Film student Patrick Atallah has a problem on his hands: his graduation documentary was cancelled at...
Space Station 3D
Released on: 2002-04-17
Documentary
Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laborat...
The Ossuary
Released on: 1970-01-01
Documentary
A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skele...
#monalisa
Released on: 2020-05-29
Documentary
People looking at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre – or are they just looking at themselves?
Swinging Light
Released on: 2025-03-21
Documentary
An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. T...
Martin Blaszko III
Released on: 2011-04-11
Documentary
Martin Blaszko is considered one of the most important artists of geometric abstraction in Latin Ame...
The Making of 'Riverplay'
Released on: 2001-01-01
Documentary
Behind the scenes of Olaf Ittenbach's 2001 thriller
Constable: A Country Rebel
Released on: 2014-09-07
Documentary
The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is diff...
Old Romances
Released on: 2012-12-15
Documentary
There is romance in every corner we turn. In this sequel to the documentary, Old Places, Old Romance...
Der Auftrag
Released on: 1988-09-29
Documentary
This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl, who was commissioned to...
I'm in Love with Pippa Bacca
Released on: 2020-03-08
Documentary
Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. S...