Films 4 Films Year of production "1972" x films with a digital version 2 Region East Africa 1 North America 1 North and Northeast Africa 1 South-East Asia 1 Country Algeria 1 Canada 1 China 1 Uganda 1 Keywords Archival material / Museum displays 1 Disasters 1 Film / Photography / Mass media 1 Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy 1 Marriage 1 Nomads and Nomadism 2 Ritual 1 Rural 1 Shamans and Shamanism 1 Social Change 1 Social Organisation 2 Socioeconomic conditions 1 War / Conflict / Reconciliation 1 Directors Curling, Chris 1 Curtis, Edward S. 1 MacDougall, David 1 Moser, Brian 1 Nairn, Charlie 1 Series Disappearing World Series 2 not set 2 Country of production Australia 1 Canada 1 United Kingdom 2 United States 2 Year of production 1972 4 x Film list In the Land of the War Canoes 1972 47' Directed by Edward S. Curtis. The film was made in 1914 by Edward Curtis. The plot concerns the efforts of a young man, Motana, son of a great chief, to obtain a bride and how he is thwarted by a wicked sorcerer. Many of the North America Archival material / Museum displays Marriage Film / Photography / Mass media The Meo 1972 52' Directed by Brian Moser Chris Curling. Over the last three thousand years the Meo (Miao or Hmong) have migrated south from north and central China to avoid oppression and protect their way of life. Today they live in scattered mountain South-East Asia War / Conflict / Reconciliation Shamans and Shamanism Ritual Social Organisation Rural To Live With Herds 1972 90' Directed by David MacDougall. The Jie are semi-nomadic pastoral people living in North-eastern Uganda, who are striving to maintain their way of life in the face of unsympathetic government policy, and, at the time of filming, a dry-season famine. East Africa Nomads and Nomadism Disasters Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy The Tuareg 1972 52' Directed by Charlie Nairn. This film is about a group of nomadic Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains near Tamanrasset in Algeria. The main focus of the film is the collapse of the former economic basis of their North and Northeast Africa Social Organisation Social Change Socioeconomic conditions Nomads and Nomadism