Ethnographical Movies

Exploring individual responses to rapid social change, Cowboy and Maria in town follows the parallel lives of its two central characters. Cowboy and...

“One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit, scenes are...

Short ethnographic documentray about Arba'een, a Shia Muslim religious observance

An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.

An ethnographic documentary which looks at the relationship between music and work in predominantly rural cultures. It depicts the lives of...

Saint Anthony, Abbot of the Desert, protector of animals, is a central figure in the Italian countryside, where fortune depends on the health of the...

An ethnographic documentary following four Ju/’hoansi (!Kung) men during a multi-day giraffe hunt in the Kalahari Desert, filmed during the...

This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the...

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...

A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to...

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

“The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whips, in which sport they are very expert. In...

The people and their labor are bound to the land in the cycle of activities to the sowing to the harvesting of wheat. Without narration or subtitles,...

The film was made on the basis of the literary version of events in the life of the famous Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist and...

The film tells two parallel stories. One, set in the present, tells of a pagent about the conquest of America, while the other, set in the 15th...

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

A meditative stroll through Sacramento landmarks, from the gentrified to the urban.

With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and...

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.