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Examines how traditional art and design play an active role in the cultural sustainability of the Zapotec communities in Oaxaca. Traces the development of the weaving process from the first people in the...
A drama in which a group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland.In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the farming classes lead a wealthy and leisurely existence....
In Kahnawake, the hometown of Mohawk director Tracey Deer (Mohawk Girls), there are two unspoken rules: Don’t marry a non-Native, and never, ever have a child with a non-Native. In a community where tribal...
Produced in the Program for Culture and Media at New York University, The Hamat’sa (or "Cannibal Dance") is the most important and widely known ceremony of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British...
An eight part American television documentary series which explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America, from pre-Colombian times, through the period of European contact and...
Natural medicine is not new, the beginnings go back thousands of years to many different cultures and has been adapted over the years to our modern day complimentary therapies. It is possible to re-forge the...
In 1998 a demolished Miami, Florida, apartment block revealed a mysterious and ancient circle of holes cut into the bedrock, nearly 13 metres in diameter. From the finds of bones, shell tools and basalt...
Television series in which Michael Wood relates the history of the Spanish conquest of the New World in the 16th century. In four parts: 1) The Fall of The Aztecs: retraces Cortes’ journey across Mexico...
Looks at the the Aztecs, whose architectural legacy is found in modern Mexico City, and the Mayans, who built some of the worlds great temples, including Chichen Itza and Copan. Uses location footage,...
Adrian Cowell traces the history of three tribes of the Amazon rainforest that are on the edge of extinction: the Panara, the Uru Eu Wau Wau, and the Ava-Canoeiro. The films focus on the dramas of...
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