David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part is taken up by talks between the Turkana people. As one of the first ethnographic documentaries "A Wife Among Wives" subtitles these talks so that the viewer can get a better and probably more personal understanding of the life of the Turkana.

This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapsho...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...

The first filmmaker arrived in Equatorial Guinea in 1904. The last movie theatre closed in Malabo in...

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...

An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.

Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives...

Examines the strained dynamic between the three wives of the polygamous Mohammadi family, as cash-st...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this fi...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a ...
At dawn a nomad caravan descends on Aq Kupruk from the foothills of the Hindu Kush. In their camp, a...

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

Filmmaker Christopher Quinn observes the ordeal of three Sudanese refugees -- Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Ab...
This fascinating film tells the story of one man's struggle to protect a small population of gorilla...

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