This documentary explores Nigeria's cultural practice of marking, including its origins and meaning as a symbol of identity, beauty and spirituality.
Long thought to be the first film ever made by an Indigenous filmmaker, Black Fire examines the situ...
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...
Good Copy Bad Copy is a documentary about copyright and culture in the context of Internet, peer-to-...
The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New W...
In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most malign...
Filmmaker Kevin McMahon accompanies the Haida delegation on a repatriation trip to Chicago in 2003. ...
Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the Afr...
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...
An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It f...
In 1968, the fury and violence of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago propelled us toward ...
Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes fro...
Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...
A deep dive into contemporary Brazilian music. Guided by the composer, anthropologist and ethnomusic...
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...
A documentary on the influential anthropologist Margaret Mead. Using never-before-seen archival foot...
"Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late" is a feature-length ethnographic film that envisions social rejuven...
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unaccultura...
Inside the Khmer Rouge takes an in-depth look at the history, domination, and current status of the ...
Bomb Hunters is an engrossing examination of the micro-economy that has emerged in Cambodia from unt...