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
Kid City
Released on: 1972-01-01
Documentary
Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as the...
World of Plenty
Released on: 1943-11-17
Documentary
An opening narration explaining that the film's purpose is to examine the "world strategy of food", ...
Far Away
Released on: 2024-04-08
Documentary, History
A landscape is only a landscape until we know what lies beneath. Pozo Ibarra, in the Central Mountai...
I Remember Lena Svedberg
Released on: 2000-01-30
Documentary
Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make thei...
Massoud the Afghan
Released on: 1998-09-30
Documentary, History
The friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afgha...
The Bowl
Released on: 2017-10-01
Documentary
A short film documenting the time the filmmaker spent in Kenya.
Afrique 50
Released on: 1950-12-31
Documentary
The first French anti-colonialist film, derived from an assignment in which the director was to docu...
Pyramid
Released on: 2014-10-18
Documentary
Pyramid is a single screen work on Abraham Maslow's theory on the hierarchy of human needs filmed th...
Caesar and Cleopatra
Released on: 1945-12-11
Drama, History, Comedy
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
The Story Of (Scotty) The T. Rex
Released on: 2020-11-01
Documentary
In this documentary, we go back to the beginning and tell the origin story of Scotty the T. Rex and ...
Yayoi Kusama
Released on: 2016-05-22
Documentary
Yayoi Kusama born March 22, 1929 is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has work...
What Price Art? By Tracey Emin
Released on: 2006-03-15
Documentary
Why is it that art by male artists always sells for more than that of female artists? Is it subject ...
The City’s Unknown
Released on: 1958-01-01
Documentary
The life, the problems, the hopes of the ragazzi of the suburbs of Rome. Ignored by the city, these ...
Cornell, 1965
Released on: 1978-09-28
Documentary
Lawrence Jordan's portrait of the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell.
Verräter
Released on: 1962-01-01
Documentary
Documentary on the former border patrol sergeant Klein. Klein deserted in 1961, defected to the enem...
Shadowlands
Released on: 2016-01-30
Animation, Documentary
Shadowlands is an animated short film about darkness that won't let go. About the constant fear that...
Allesandersplatz
Released on: 2021-09-12
Documentary
Artists, urban planners and the city of Berlin trying to transform a former GDR ruin into a place fo...
Head, Tail, Rail
Released on: 2014-04-24
Documentary
The starting point of this film was a set of 35mm trailers acquired from various abandoned cinemas. ...