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.

Filmmaker Christopher Quinn observes the ordeal of three Sudanese refugees -- Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Ab...

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...
Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a ...
In common with many L.A. Rebellion films, Snake touches on such themes as institutionalized racism, ...


A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage...

The story of Kenyan athlete David Rudisha, the greatest 800m runner the world has ever seen, and his...

Djibril Diop Mambéty followed and filmed the shooting of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouédraogo's second feature f...

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this fi...

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

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet...

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushm...

In a fascinating geopolitical drama, Danish filmmaker Mik-Meyer closely follows Ravalomanana as he a...

Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small...