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Films
147 Films
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Colour / Black and white
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short films
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films available on demand
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Title initial
A
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B
9
C
11
D
5
E
4
F
2
G
5
H
11
I
5
J
1
K
14
L
8
M
15
N
4
x
O
2
P
2
Q
1
R
5
S
15
T
11
U
5
V
1
W
6
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
12
Caribbean Islands
2
Central Africa
1
Central America
1
Central Asia and Far East
7
Central Europe
1
East Africa
7
London
1
Melanesia
6
Micronesia
1
Middle and Near East
10
New Zealand and Polynesia
1
North America
9
North and Northeast Africa
12
Scandinavia
1
South America
21
South Asia
15
South-East Asia
11
South-East Europe
5
Southern Africa
2
Various
6
West Africa
11
Western Europe
5
Western Mediterranean
3
Country
Afghanistan
8
Albania
1
Algeria
1
Angola
1
Anguilla
1
Australia
1
Bangladesh
1
Bolivia
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
Brazil
7
Cameroon
1
Canada
2
China
4
Colombia
3
Cyprus
1
Denmark
1
Ethiopia
6
Federated States of Micronesia
1
France
1
Ghana
2
Guatemala
1
Haiti
1
Hungary
1
India
6
Indonesia
8
Iran
1
Italy
1
Jordan
1
Kenya
5
Madagascar
1
Mongolia
2
Morocco
1
Myanmar
2
Nepal
3
Nigeria
7
Pakistan
4
Palestine
1
Papua New Guinea
5
Paraguay
1
Peru
4
Romania
1
Russian Federation
1
Samoa
1
Senegal
1
Sierra Leone
1
Solomon Islands
1
South Africa
1
Spain
2
Sri Lanka
1
Sudan
5
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
The Netherlands
1
Turkey
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
15
United States
6
Various
6
Venezuela
3
not set
2
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
6
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Animals
11
Archaeology
2
Archival material / Museum displays
7
Art / Artists / Artisans
3
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
6
Collective / Community identity
16
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
9
Death
3
Development projects
5
Education / Knowledge Transmission
4
Education / Knowledge transmission
2
Elderly people
1
Environment
3
Ethnofiction
2
Everyday Life
9
Family / Kinship
9
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
9
Film / Photography / Mass media
9
Food
1
Gender Role and Identity
16
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
10
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Herding
9
History
4
History of Anthropology
8
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
9
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
13
Informant-researcher relationship
3
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Inter-religious relations
3
Intergenerational relations
1
LGBTQI*
4
Labour
7
Land Rights
9
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
2
Life Story / Life History
1
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Marriage
6
Material Culture
3
Memory
4
Migration
5
Music / Ethnomusicology
13
Nationalism
1
Nomads and Nomadism
6
Personal Narrative
2
Political Activists
4
Popular Culture
1
Possession
3
Post-communism
2
Prison
1
Public Figure
3
Race / Racism / Antiracism
2
Reflexivity
2
Refugees / Displaced populations
11
Religion / Belief / Faith
23
Reproduction (biology)
1
Resistance
2
Ritual
33
Rural
8
Sex / Sexuality
5
Shamans and Shamanism
2
Social Change
22
Social Conflict
10
Social Norms
2
Social Organisation
14
Socioeconomic conditions
3
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
7
Trade
3
Travellers / Roma
1
Urban
5
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
15
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Arnott, Susi
1
Ash, David
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Baily, John
10
Banks, Marcus
1
Beckham, Michael
2
Beier, Ulli
1
Blake, John
2
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Brice, Mark
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Carr, Peter
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Christie, Debbie
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Cross, Stephen
1
Curling, Chris
5
Davidson, John Paul
1
Day, Mike
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Dineen, Molly
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Getzels, Peter
1
Gordon, Harriet
1
Grigsby, Michael
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hardie, Amy
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Harries, Andy
3
Harrison, Ross
1
Hawkins, Richard
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horton, Robin
1
Howes, Arthur
3
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
2
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Graham
2
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lasko, Claire
2
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
MacDonald, Bruce
3
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Milne, Claudia
1
Milner, George
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Moser, Brian
7
Nairn, Charlie
5
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Pasini, Carlos
2
Picard, David
1
Powell, Harry
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Ross, Nina
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Sheahan, Tom
1
Sheppard, John
4
Singer, André
14
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
6
Taylor, Jamie
1
Wason, David
5
Werbner, Richard
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Winter, Pattie
1
Woodhead, Leslie
12
Yorke, Michael
1
de Bromhead, Toni
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
54
Forbidden Rites
3
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
3
National Film and Television School
10
Shorts Collection 2
3
Shorts collection 2
1
Strangers Abroad
3
Sudan Trilogy
3
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
not set
69
Country of production
Australia
1
Brazil
1
India
1
Indonesia
2
Italy
1
Jordan
1
Nigeria
6
Peru
1
Senegal
1
South Africa
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
147
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United States
5
Year of production
1952
1
1963
1
1964
1
1966
1
1970
2
1971
3
1972
2
1973
2
1974
7
1975
5
1976
1
1977
5
1979
3
1980
2
1982
4
1983
7
1984
3
1985
3
1986
4
1987
9
1988
8
1989
9
1990
4
1991
4
1993
3
1996
2
1998
1
1999
4
2001
2
2003
2
2004
1
2005
2
2006
3
2007
4
2008
4
2009
2
2010
4
2011
2
2012
3
2013
1
2014
2
2015
4
2016
2
2018
1
2019
3
2020
2
2021
2
Colour / Black and white
Film list
New Images
1964
27
‘
Directed by
Ulli Beier
Frank Speed
.
The film is a brief description of life in a busy commercial centre that still depends upon and retains its ancient traditions. These are based on the history of the town which was founded on the
West Africa
Art / Artists / Artisans
Religion / Belief / Faith
Archival material / Museum displays
The Newest Revolution
1983
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Claire Lasko
.
This film is a continuation of ‘Living with the Revolution’, set in the same communes near Wuxi and focusing on the same families. This film concentrates, however, on the new social and economic
Central Asia and Far East
Family / Kinship
Social Change
Nkabom: A little medicine A little prayer
2021
79
‘
Werbner Award
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
A mother is caring for her son at a healing shrine on the edge of a village in the central belt of Ghana. In another village, a father has taken his son to several Christian and traditional healers
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Nuba Conversation
1989
53
‘
Directed by
Arthur Howes
.
Ten years after he made ‘Kafi’s Story’, director Arthur Howes returns to the Sudan to find the members of the Nuba who featured in his earlier documentary film. Soon after he had left the Sudan, the
North and Northeast Africa
Children / Young people
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Refugees / Displaced populations