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Anthropology
156 film(s) found
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This intriguing four-part series chronicles scientists and anthropologists searching for vanishing populations, lost cultures, and hidden cities. more »
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A black musician and composer bridges two cultures: West African music with roots in the 13th century and classical European music. more »
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Filmmaker Geoffrey O'Conner (see Contact and At the Edge of Conquest) chronicles the political events in the Amazon beginning with the assassination of Chico Mendes in l998. He analyzes the complex interaction between indigenous societies and the" outsiders" who are encroaching on the rain forest. more »
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This film focuses on the assertive market women of Ghana who are subordinate in domestic matters but are powerful in the marketplace. more »
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A close up look at the tribe in Papua New Guinea, known as "the men who eat men." more »
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This film looks at the situation of the isolated Waiapi Indians in Brazil, focusing on their charismatic leader as he travels to Brazil's capitol to fight threats from gold miners and the government's plans for highway construction across their land. more »
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Art and everyday life come together in this intimate story about a Balinese family whose gamelan music and Legong dance tradition span four generations. more »
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This visually stunning film documents an extraordinary coming of age ritual in a village in the Niger Delta in which the young women undergo the Iria rite to prepare themselves for womanhood. more »
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The betelnut has been a socially accepted narcotic in coastal Papua New Guinea since ancestral times but in the Highlands, where a majority of the population lives, it is a recent arrival. The film follows Lukus Kalma as he tries to supplement his income by buying betelnuts from growers and reselling them at home. more »
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Hmong refugees have been transplanted from mountain villages in Laos to cities in the US. The film shows how they practice their ancient shamanic rituals in urban America. more »
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The Bedouin of the deserts of Arabia and the Middle East have developed a system of law and order which evolved from their harsh environment. The Bisha ceremony is the ultimate ordeal for testing the truthfullness of the speaker. more »
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Vera Bila, a Gypsy singer, is a cabaret star in Europe but in her native land she is viewed with indifference and suspicion. more »
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The third film in the renowned trilogy on Papua New Guinea completes the story chronicled in First Contact and Joe Leahy's Neighbours. more »
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Bolivia, one of the most troubled countries in the region is fractured. more »
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Samburu warriors from Kenya, part of the U.N. peacekeeping force, try to understand the war in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia. more »
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Haitians, who have little access to conventional medicine, depend on local herbs for curing ailments. We are shown how these herbs are gathered and used. more »
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This film takes us to a remote part of Yunan province in China where the Lisu people have lived for generations in a village carved out of a steep mountain gorge, cheerily battling the elements to go about their daily tasks. more »
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The San people, more commonly known as Bushmen, are believed to be the earliest inhabitants of southern Africa. But these peaceful people have long faced pressures from dominant tribes and European settlers. more »
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This powerful documentary travels into the hidden world of voodoo practitioners and offers unique insight into a frequently misunderstood religion. more »
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Every September a group of nomad women in Niger travel by camel caravan across the stark desert, 660 miles each way, in order to sell their tribe's dates. The women organize and lead the caravan without men! more »
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This richly photographed film shows a special ceremony performed in a remote village in northern Bali to purify the village. Two young girls dance and chant in accordance with strict Balinese traditions. more »
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This lively film about the kingdom of Cambodia provides a remarkable picture of a country that endured political upheaval and genocide, yet was able to renew itself by reconnecting with ancient beliefs and traditions more »
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For fifteen years, the life of a young Masai woman has been chronicled as she emerges from adolescence to wife and mother. more »
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This documentary, shot in the remote Brazilian Amazon, graphically depicts the devastating impact of contact with the outside world on an indigenous tribe, the Yanomami Indians, the last major Stone Age people in the Amazon. more »
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A Catholic priest and a Protestant nun talk about the influence of Buddhism in their lives. more »
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Combining footage taken by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson over fifty years ago with footage shot today, this delightful video shows how the tradition of teaching Balinese children to dance is being passed on. more »
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This beautiful film introduces Bharata Natyam dance, a classical Hindu dance form which originated thousands of years ago. Interwoven with the performance are explanations of the history and tradition of this art form. more »
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The film takes us back to the murderous years of Pol Pot (1975-79) when 90 percent of the Cambodian dancers were executed or died of starvation or disease. It shows how several surviving dancers train a new generation to continue their tradition. more »
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This beautifully photographed, revealing film about Egypt's women captures their separate and subordinate life under the Islamic code. Men and women speak about their traditions, expectations, and patterns of life. more »
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This fanciful film takes us to the Mexican village of Patzcuaro where, on October 31 people return home from everywhere to celebrate and communicate with their ancestors and deceased loved ones. more »
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The Dervishes of Kurdistan captures the mountainous frontier of Iran and Iraq. The Dervishes' religious faith allows them to thrust skewers in their cheeks, plunge daggers in their sides, eat glass, and lick white-hot spoons. This program shows how religion and politics are intertwined in Islamic culture. more »
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The traditional culture of the Turkmans of Iran will soon be lost to Western influences. more »
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Trash collecting may sound dismal, but in this film, shot in Rio de Janeiro, the people featured are undaunted, and proud of their survival skills. They make their living picking through trash in search of recyclable material and are popularly known as donkeys without a tail. more »
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Anthropologist and psychologist Peter Elsass studied two Indian tribes in Colombia and Venezuela over a 16-year period. In this film we see their different ways of dealing with encroaching white civilization. more »
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Here the filmmakers return after several years to show the original film to the tribes who have suffered great injustice in the intervening years. more »
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This film records the most spectacular sacred ceremony of the Balinese people, held by order of the high priests to restore balance between good and evil. more »
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Haile Selassie, the late Emperor of Ethiopia, was and still is considered the living God and King by Rastafarians in Jamaica, Britain, the USA and other parts of the world. The film looks back to the 1930's when Ras Tafari was crowned Emperor and also covers the current Rasta scene. more »
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This film documents the work of Dr. P. Gregory Warden and his team as they search the hilltops of Poggio Colia, Italy, for any clues into the mysterious Etruscan civilization. more »
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Egyptologist Tony Mills unearths artifacts and examines skeletal remains of "the other Egypt," an area around the Dakhleh Oasis, far away from the pyramids and the Nile. more »
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This film makes an impassioned plea for the return of the land that was taken from the Wanatchi Indians of Washington State more »
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This is a portrait of a country family in the Auvergne province who typify how the traditions are slowly fading away in the face of modern life. We see the disintegration of rural areas in industrialized nations. more »
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A Somali woman filmmaker who was subject to circumcision explores the issue of female genital mutilation in her culture. more »
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Academy Award Nominee, 1984. This is the classic film of cultural confrontation that is as compelling today as when it was first released over ten years ago. more »
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Formerly a thriving, prosperous French possession inhabited by descendants of African slaves, Haiti is now one of the poorest countries in the world, while an economic boom linked to tourism has occurred in the Dominican Republic. Their border is plagued by daily violence and tension. more »
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This beautifully filmed documentary captures traditional life in rural Yemen with a close-up view of a culture which revolves around the search for water. But with the discovery of oil, the outside world is coming to Yemen. more »
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Good Fortune is a rare and intimate portrait of two vibrant Kenyan communities, one rural, one urban, battling to save their homes and businesses from large-scale development organizations more »
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This ironic film show how the natives of Papua New Guinea are confused by the rivalry for conversions among competing churches more »
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Religion, archaeology and understated drama intertwine in the story of the discovery of ancient papyrus manuscripts in southern Egypt in 1945. more »
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A fascinating look at the Sambia people of the mountains of New Guinea, whose society is shaped by the ritualized distinction between male and female roles. more »
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A devastating account of the discrimination and impoverishment of the Roma in Eastern Slovakia. more »
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From the renowned Under the Sun series of BBC, this trilogy focuses on the Hamar, an isolated people of southwestern Ethiopia whose traditional lifestyle has been barely touched by the war and the famine in the north. more »
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Duka, a young unmarried Hamar girl learns what awaits her in life from the older women of her tribe. more »
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Duka and her young friend Gardi excitedly prepare to marry men they have never met. more »
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Duka is now a mother with a two-year-old daughter and infant son. Her life is dominated by caring for them and her husband more »
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This unique film takes a journey down the Niger River in Mali, West Africa, past rarely seen traditional African architecture. The strikingly beautiful ancient mosques and palaces of legendary cities like Timbuktu and Djenne were built with mud and have stood for over a thousand years. more »
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This colorful film portrays three Sami women of different generations as they follow the reindeer herds of Lapland. more »
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Takes us to a hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where circumcised women are given medical care. more »
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Two Peruvian musicians journey into the rainforest to preserve the traditional tribal music and instruments before they vanish completely. (more) more »
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This film is the followup to Academy Award nominee First Contact. more »
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The strange story told in this film about Sri Lanka narrates a revival of mystical belief in the ancient Hindu god, Kataragama more »
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In 1996, two college students stumbled upon an anthropological find: a human skull that turned out to be one of the oldest skeletons ever found in North America. This film explores the firestorm of controversy which erupted when the Native American tribe in the area demanded that the bones be repatriated to the tribe for reburial by the Federal government. more »
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In Samburu culture the women do all the work. In 1990 a small group of women decided to band together and create their own village. They prospered without men! more »
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This film shows the much maligned Afro-Cuban religion, Santeria, and its practitioners in Puerto Rico gathering for the initiation of a priest over a three-day period. more »
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Interweaving past and present and combining fabulous archival film
and photographs with current documentary footage, The Lacandon Maya
tells the story of an isolated community catapulted into civilization
within the space of one generation. more »
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This stunning film takes us to a rare matriarchal community in southwest China. The ancient Mosuo culture has survived both the time of the concubines and the Cultural Revolution. more »
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Lady Warriors is the story of seven Native American teenage girls who are Arizona state cross-country running champions more »
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For centuries, the world has jostled for control of the land now known as West Papua, a rugged, isolated region, with its abundant natural resources and strategic position. Colonial ambition, fervent nationalism and cold war politics have played a part in its turbulent history. more »
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Languages Lost and Found is uniquely thought provoking for those who take their language for granted. It will be a resource for courses in anthropology, communication, ethnomusicology, and the humanities in general. more »
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An elder in Kyrgyzstan passes down the heroic stories of their oral tradition. more »
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Linguist Ian Mackenzie preserves the unique language of the Penan of Borneo, the last true nomadic hunting and gathering people on earth. more »
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Relegated to remote reservations on the rugged slopes of Mt. Pinatuba, the Aetas survived slavery by the Spanish colonizers and battled commercial logging and encroachment on their ancestral land. more »
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Filmed in the deserts of Namibia, one of the hottest and driest places on earth, we meet indigenous people who survive in this harsh environment. more »
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This lively film adds a new dimension to the appreciation of African music, focusing as it does on the space between sounds - the richness of silence. more »
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The meddahatts are women musicians who perform for other women in Algeria. Many are widowed or divorced and have fallen on hard times. Only a woman filmmaker could have penetrated this closed environment and captured on film such a spontaneous portrait. more »
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This film celebrates the long and rich tradition of Latin culture in a multicultural community in Florida which was founded on the cigar industry. more »
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Through the eyes of one family, the film traces the history of the Ndebele people and their art and rituals. more »
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Paleo-athologist Eldon Molto examines the bones of the now-vanished Pericu of Baja California, Mexico, using DNA to piece together the story of a fierce and independent people. more »
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This warm, intimate documentary follows a young Tuareg girl in Niger who is about is about to marry a man she has never met and documents a quickly vanishing tradition. more »
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This richly photographed film captures the courtship rituals of the Miao who live deep in the mountains of China, preserving the traditions of the past. Young men and women woo each other with soulful songs. more »
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A unique look at the culture, filmed by a Maasai warrior who studied in America. more »
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This film shows the roots and beliefs of Afrospirit religions as practiced by the privileged rich as well as the illiterate poor, shot primarily in Rio de Janeiro. more »
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This film takes a wry look at the cultural confrontation of East and West, as reflected in Hindu attitudes towards the slaughter in England of cows sick with Mad Cow disease. more »
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Timbuktu has been the center of the salt trade since ancient times. Nomads and miners still carry on the trade despite civil war and poverty more »
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This film focuses on an African woman who presides over the cloth market in Lome, Togo. She is a powerful woman treated with deference who owns a prized possesion, a chauffeured Mercedes Benz. more »
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Faith in Pentecostal Christianity, a blend of deep-rooted African traditions and imported values of Christianity, helped South African blacks survive appalling hardships and helped stabilize the new South Africa. more »
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A documentary portrait of one of the most influential women of our time. Using never-before-seen archival footage and interviews, it weaves together the story of the scientist, adventurer, and international celebrity. more »
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This film provides a memorable portrait of a couple living in a tiny oasis outside Chinguetti, surviving despite the forces of nature that buffet them more »
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The Peruvian town of Paradise was once a tropical Utopia.The villagers survived by growing coca. Then the Shining Path came in to control the drug trade. The town became embattled in the drug war. This firsthand account from deep inside the Peruvian jungle reveals the complex problems of stopping coca cultivation. more »
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The filmmaker-anthropologist lived among a Nunamiut Eskimo family of four generations, members of the only tribe of inland Eskimos in the world. more »
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This delightful short is for film lovers everywhere. Jose Zagati is a trash gatherer on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. He has with created a fully functioning film theater from recycled objects. His modest garage is a gathering place for the children of the village who experience the joy of cinema (and popcorn) free of charge. more »
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This documentary captures the color, romance and spiritual atmosphere of Marrakech's famous square, which once led visitors such as Edith Wharton and Winston Churchill to marvel at its magic. more »
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This is a unique chronicle of the Ipini, whose nomadic, hunter/gatherer society has gone through the profound change to a money economy over a ten-year period. more »
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In Texan communities along the Rio Grande, there is a vibrant mixture of Spanish Catholicism and Indian mysticism. Various saints and religious figures appear to the believers in the shape of everyday objects. more »
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Alain Desjacques, a well-known ethnomusicologist, takes us on a pilgrimage to find and record the best traditional musicians on the rugged, remote steppes of Mongolia. more »
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In Iran, where men dominate the fishing trade, a fisherwoman struggles to support herself and her 100-year-old mother. more »
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The Navajos, who for years were not allowed to use their own language in native schools, suddenly found themselves essential as code breakers during World War II. more »
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This unique film explores Ndebele rituals and their art forms as well as their political empowerment. more »
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"No More Smoke Signals" is about Kili Radio, "Voice of the Lakota Nation," which broadcasts out of a small wooden house in the vast countryside of South Dakota. There, people converge to speak to the community about daily concerns and in doing so, strengthen their sense of identity. A film about the role of media, as well as an up-close look at present day life on the reservation. more »
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The people of Ova Himba in the desert of Namibia lived a harsh life as cattle herders, migrating between their encampments. The drought and the war in Angola forced them into shanty towns and took away their dignity. more »
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This is the affirming story of how Candomble, a Brazilian religion of African origin, has become a source of strength and power for a group of AIDS sufferers in Brazil's cities. more »
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A first hand account of how the Gypsies suffered during the Holocaust. more »
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Our Lady's is the story of how one Boston suburban parish, energized by a dynamic leader, rose up against the powerful Church hierarchy to demand that their voices be heard. more »
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This amazingly up-close documentary brings us into the lives of an Ethiopian couple, Yezina and Mesagnow. Yezina suffers from a fistula which causes her urine to constantly leak.Two million African women share her fate because tradition forces young girls into early marriages when their bodies are too immature to bear children safely. more »
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Three classic films about cultural confrontation. more »
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This film explores the culture of Samoan fa'afafines, boys who are raised as girls, fulfilling a traditional role in Samoan culture. more »
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This fascinating film illustrates how religious differences, even on the basic level of dietary prohibitions affects the relationship of Malaysia's 12 million Muslims and 6 million Chinese. more »
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The two currencies in Papua New Guinea are the modern cash economy and a traditional economy based around shell money, banana leaves and pig tusks. The problem is that there is no exchange between the two and a bank is badly needed. more »
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This four-part series helps to put into perspective the AIDS epidemic that is sweeping the global community. more »
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Filmed in the U.S., Hungary, India and Australia, this episode investigates through various case studies how epidemics break out. more »
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Concentrating on bubonic plague (Black Death) and cholera, this film gives a historical account of the spread of these diseases as man explored his world. more »
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This program explores the relationship between the immune system and history, using as one example measles, prevalent in the teaming cities of the ancient Near East and now raging through the Hispanic population of Los Angeles. more »
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This program shows the interaction between the two epidemics, HIV and syphilis, fostered by drug use and prostitution more »
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Daily life in a village in Northern Senegal. more »
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Watching the lithe, expressive movements of Javanese masked dancer Rasinah, one would never believe a 72-year old woman is behind the mask! She is a master of an ancient form of mask dance called Topeng Cirebon, which originated in West Java, Indonesia. This colorful documentary shows the history, function and meaning of these masked dances. more »
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Without resorting to sensationalism, the film explores the long-practiced custom of female circumcision and its ongoing practice in many cultures, particularly across Africa more »
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Off the coast of Sumatra live the Sakuddei, an egalitarian society cut off from the outside world, living in near perfect harmony with the environment and each other. more »
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This starkly beautiful film exemplifies the burden borne by African women to survive and support their families. The Ghanaian women who live on a lagoon in Ada, mine for salt with their bare hands during the three month-long dry season. more »
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Reflections of Africa in Brazilian Culture This lively film goes behind the scenes of the samba and carnival world in Rio de Janeiro to reveal how the cultural clash of the African/Black and European/White cultures gave birth to a new tradition. more »
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A grassroots movement, spearheaded by newly educated women, has successfully halted female circumcision in Senegal. more »
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This is an innovative, intimate portrait of stalwart members of an indigenous people who inhabit Mexico¹s Sierra de Santa Marta and speak a derivative of ancient Olmec. more »
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This beautifully photgraphed film documents an unusual healing ceremony in Senegal, where a young women is cured of post-partum depression. more »
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This is an inspirational documentary about a young Muslim woman, trained as an anthropologist, who suffered hardship and professional censure to save a desert tribe from becoming extinct in the harsh Sahara. more »
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When Edmund Hillary made history in 1953 by conquering the peak of Mt. Everest with the help of his Sherpa guide, it changed forever the life of the Sherpas. This spectacularly shot film points out the ironic juxtaposition of eastern and western values and lifestyles now that the Sherpas have adjusted to their success as guides to adventurers. more »
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Originally from a small village in the Buryat region of Siberia, Irina Pantaeva emigrated to the U.S. in the 1980's. Every summer, Irina, a world-famous model, and her son travel back to help her troubled family, trapped in the new free market society. Siberian Dream shows the effects of perestroika and glasnost on this Buryat community. more »
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The film documents the treatment of leprosy victims in Hawaii in the 19th and early 20th century, when more than 8,000 sufferers were banished to an isolated peninsula amd practically abandoned more »
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A warm portrait of one of the most revered musical families in India, in which the cherished tradition of dhrupad vocal music is passed on from father to son. It presents for the first time on film an in-depth look at the musical training fundamental to this special music. more »
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This is a lively musical tribute to Ralph Rinzler who championed indigenous American music, first as a musician, then in field research and recording, eventually founding the Center for Folklife in the Smithsonian Institute. more »
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In Guatemala City, five warmhearted psychic healers try to solve the problems of the poorest of the poor, who search for advice, healing and comfort more »
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In the Mexican American community around the Rio Grande, folk healing is still an established practice. This film follows three healers, or curandera, as they use a variety of spiritual and herbal techniques. more »
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This award-winning film is a lively portrait of the Kuna Indians of Panama's San Blas Islands, determined to protect their rainforest homeland and survive the encroachment of the Western world. more »
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This stunningly photographed film focuses on Sebim Odjo, of the Ivory Coast, who draws upon Moslem, Christian and traditional African beliefs in his healing ceremonies. more »
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Seen through the eyes of his fourteen-year-old daughter, a Hmong Shaman, grapples with life in America. more »
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The looting of ancient artifacts from the troubled regions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is an ongoing scandal. This film reveals the closely knit network of looters, smugglers, dealers, collectors and academics which encourages this illegal trade . more »
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Archeologist Edmundo Edwards explores the French Polynesian islands which are filled with huge stone cities, left by thriving native populations that were wiped out by European disease. more »
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A little kingdom in northern Cameroon looks like a throwback to the Arabian Nights, but 20th-century political currents intrude. more »
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In a mountainous area of Albania, an ancestral code of laws places women in the bottom rank of society. But there is one loophole. The ancient laws allow certain women to take an oath announcing their intentions to remain virgins. These "Sworn Virgins" dress, act, talk and drink like men and are respected as any man would be. more »
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This fascinating film depicts the Taigana, an unusual tribe of nomads living in the mountainous Hovsgol region of Mongolia, near the Siberian border. more »
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Using animation techniques combined with filmed actual performances, this colorful production documents an ancient storytelling tradition still ongoing in India. It recounts the epic of Lord Pabuji of Rajasthan. more »
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This beautifully filmed video reveals how hard life is for the women of Mauritania, who do all the farming and housework while the men take their ease. Tradition and Islamic religion are intertwined to reinforce strict gender roles. more »
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This film captures the poignancy of a native people, the Bedamini in Papua, New Guinea, undergoing tremendous cultural change, moving from aggressive behavior that included cannibalism to a Western lifestyle more »
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Bruno Manser, a Swiss citizen, lived among the Penan of Malaysian Borneo, and devoted himself to saving the forests more »
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The mummified corpse of Anchhor, one of the few mummies that have been recovered fully intact, has been the object of an elaborate scientific investigation by the National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands. more »
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This is a poetic representation of the lifestyle and culture of the Tarahumara Indians who live in the vast, astonishing and isolated Copper Canyon area of Chihuahua, Mexico. more »
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This is the story of a remarkable Canadian-American missionary couple who settled, in 1929, among the Montagnard tribes of Vietnam's highlands. They lived, worked and filmed there for fifty years. This film was produced by their grandson more »
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This raucous yet poignant documentary takes us into the lives of three Serbian brothers who are without wives in a remote mountain village of eight inhabitants, all of them single men. more »
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An 87-year-old Eskimo hunter looks out over the glacial expanse of his Arctic homeland and recalls a past way of life when he hunted polar bear with spear, and harpooned walrus from his kayak. more »
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This is a unique story of a leap across cultural boundaries as a Masai warrior from southern Kenya adapts to life on the fast track in suburban Massachusetts. more »
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Some women in Senegal emerged from their domestic roles into breadwinner roles after the economic crisis in the 1980's. They formed collectives, called Roscas, which are cooperatives very much in keeping with the African sense of community. more »
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Mamoun, a quirky thirty-five year old Muslim man living in Skoura, Morocco, has never been married, although his culture demands it . Considering the separation of the sexes in Muslim society, the obsession with virginity, and the custom of arranged marriages, the film asks, how can love blossom? more »
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From the Disappearing World series, the film shows how a priest must share his influence with the witch doctor. more »
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This BBC film takes us to the heart of rural China, where one woman about to have her third child is in trouble with the family planning officials, and another excitedly plans for her traditional wedding. more »
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In the Central African Republic, one of the poorest countries in the world, witchcraft is an enshrined element of their legal system—formally treated as a crime. Each year thousands are tried, imprisoned, and even killed in accordance with the law. more »
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This fascinating documentary filmed in Mosuo Province near the Tibetan border shares the story of a matriarchal society where there are no fathers, husbands, or marriages. more »
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This film explores the Yemeni culture and its dependency on Qat, which plays a central role in daily life, marriages, and tribal disputes. It focuses on the story of a powerful Qat trader and addict whose wedding is overshadowed by a bitter dispute over his Qat fields. more »
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This is an intimate and spontaneous depiction of the lives of Zulu women left behind while their husbands, migrant laborers, work in the mines far away. By turns sad, touching or amusing, this film bears eloquent testimony to the ravages of an economic system which tears families apart to feed South Africa¹s insatiable mines. more »
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