Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, Etched in Bone explores the impact of one notorious bone theft by a member of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Hundred of bones were stolen and deposited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, until it became known to Arnhem elders in the late 1990s. The return of the sacred artefacts was called for, resulting in a tense standoff between indigenous tribespeople and the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian.

In her second film, MY LIFE AS I LIVE IT (1993), Essie Coffey returns to her home in Dodge City wher...

An examination of the connection between relentless government intervention since colonisation to th...
A polemic against Werner Herzog and the making of "Fitzcarraldo", exploring the question of the film...
A dark and magical visit to the fabled Parisian address Rue Fontaine 42. This was the residence of A...

The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan ...

Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...

Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teach...

March 2008. The renowned journal ‘Science’ publishes an article confirming that the human bones disc...

Ice has always moved. When glaciation took hold some 34 million years ago, interconnected rivers of ...

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most malign...

Live footage from concentration camps after the liberation, and the complex transport and lodging of...

"Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial" was a 1983 episode of the PBS science documentary series N...

50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the wor...
In a strange twist of irony, Americans celebrate their independence on the sovereign lands of the Qu...

A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanz...

Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts ...

This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theat...

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political a...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...