Movies: Anthropology

  • 2019
    Midsommar

    Midsommar (2019)

    Midsommar

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    Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nig...

    Midsommar
  • 2007
    The Man from Earth

    The Man from Earth (2007)

    The Man from Earth

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    A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everythi...

    The Man from Earth
  • 1988
    The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

    The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988)

    The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

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    An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendary heavy metal and hard rock bands and artists such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, Motör...

    The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
  • 1984
    Iceman

    Iceman (1984)

    Iceman

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    A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to dis...

    Iceman
  • 2016
    Maggie's Plan

    Maggie's Plan (2016)

    Maggie's Plan

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    Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with John, an older married professor, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But three years later, married to John wi...

    Maggie's Plan
  • 1991
    Begotten

    Begotten (1991)

    Begotten

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    Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth....

    Begotten
  • 2018
    Museo

    Museo (2018)

    Museo

    6.62018HD

    Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of their...

    Museo
  • 2006
    Fierce People

    Fierce People (2006)

    Fierce People

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    A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey....

    Fierce People
  • 1982
    Burden of Dreams

    Burden of Dreams (1982)

    Burden of Dreams

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    The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dr...

    Burden of Dreams
  • 1998
    Krippendorf's Tribe

    Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)

    Krippendorf's Tribe

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    After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his thre...

    Krippendorf's Tribe
  • 1969
    Inside the Khmer Rouge

    Inside the Khmer Rouge (1969)

    Inside the Khmer Rouge

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    Inside the Khmer Rouge takes an in-depth look at the history, domination, and current status of the Khmer Rouge (a Communist regime) in Cambodia. The film features revealing interviews with soldiers of both the modern Khmer Rouge and those who fight ...

    Inside the Khmer Rouge
  • 2005
    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)

    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

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    The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, power metal, Nu metal, glam metal, thrash metal, black metal, and death metal. Dunn uses a family-tree-type flowchart to d...

    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
  • 2006
    American Hardcore

    American Hardcore (2006)

    American Hardcore

    6.82006HD

    Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, ...

    American Hardcore
  • 2019
    Bamboo Theatre

    Bamboo Theatre (2019)

    Bamboo Theatre

    6.82019HD

    This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theatres are commonly built in most cosmopolitan modern cities, Hong Kong preserves a unique theatrical architecture, a Chinese tradition that has lasted m...

    Bamboo Theatre
  • 2010
    Secrets of the Tribe

    Secrets of the Tribe (2010)

    Secrets of the Tribe

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    What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific a...

    Secrets of the Tribe
  • 1929
    The Wild Party

    The Wild Party (1929)

    The Wild Party

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    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 gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she...

    The Wild Party
  • 2015
    The Taste of the Name

    The Taste of the Name (2015)

    The Taste of the Name

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    Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality. As a parallel to the elusive “umami” and its gradual scientific acceptance as a primary taste, we con...

    The Taste of the Name
  • 2008
    Global Metal

    Global Metal (2008)

    Global Metal

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    In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the world's cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam ...

    Global Metal
  • 1973
    The Naked Ape

    The Naked Ape (1973)

    The Naked Ape

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    Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we beh...

    The Naked Ape
  • 2019
    Marked

    Marked (2019)

    Marked

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    This documentary explores Nigeria's cultural practice of marking, including its origins and meaning as a symbol of identity, beauty and spirituality....

    Marked