anthropology

German director Werner Herzog begins work on his 1982 epic “Fitzcarraldo” but soon runs into serious setbacks, from casting problems ...

A group of friends travels to Sweden to visit the rural hometown of one of them and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic ...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the ...

An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of ...

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he ...

A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying ...

The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s ...

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West’s most maligned musical genre – heavy metal ...

Somewhat based on Desmond Morris’s fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy ...

Inspired by Steven Blush’s book “American Hardcore: A tribal history” Paul Rachman’s feature documentary debut is a ...

Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running ...

After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence ...

This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theatres are commonly built in most cosmopolitan ...

Meet the Fox family, a traveling circus troupe with a mythical, centuries-old secret. They are gumiho creatures, who can transform themselves ...

An anthropologist is brought to an arctic base when explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who has been frozen in a block of ice for ...

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and ...

This documentary follows three couples to see how things turned out several years after their weddings. The film presents challenging ideas about ...

The legend of an ancient civilization lies buried under a large expanse of dunes. Travelers have always reached this remote territory looking for ...

Welcome to the future. Meet Annette Haven, scientist, archaeologist, student of human sexuality. Her mission: to learn as much about the sexual ...

Short documentary ordered by the magazine “Présence Africaine”. From the question “Why is the african in the Human museum while ...