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The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world’s first example of anthropological cinema. The MASKS OF MER tells the extraordinary story of this...
Ben Hopkins’ documentary 37 USES FOR A DEAD SHEEP provides a glimpse at the lifestyles, mores, and background of the Pamir Kirghiz, a nomadic tribe from the central Asia. Documentarist Hopkins teams up...
Granada’s landmark anthropological series, broadcast over three decades, remains a benchmark of cutting-edge documentary making. A series of internationally acclaimed, award-winning films offer intimate...
MEN AT WORK depicts the daily working life of one of the few remaining institutions in Austria that still employs only men. They are responsible for a 39 km stretch of Austria’s biggest highway and transit...
In 1970, documentary filmmaker Colette Piault and her colleagues produced a film on the lives of a group of young people living in the Brouck (the Audomarois Fenland) area of Northern France. Forty years...
Behind-the-scenes look at Philip Trevelyan’s film about the eccentric Page family who live together in a ramshackle house in the Sussex countryside, without gas, electricity or running water. The director...
ZOO QUEST FOR A DRAGON, first broadcast in 1956, was the third in David Attenborough’s groundbreaking ZOO QUEST television natural history series. In these programmes he pioneered techniques in programme...
MILKING THE RHINO examines the deepening conflict between humans and animals in an ever-shrinking world. It is the first major documentary to explore wildlife conservation from the perspective of people who...
Who has the authority to define a culture? Is there "objective" scholarship and, if so, how does it become politicised? Race and scholarship collide in a new film on Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering...
This French television documentary recounts the extraordinary career of the father of structural anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, whose theories not only influenced that field, but also linguistics,...
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