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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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Showing 5
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short films
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films available on demand
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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
O
2
P
2
Q
1
R
5
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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
Raju and His Friends
1988
40
‘
Directed by
Marcus Banks
.
This film is set in the city of Jamnagar, western India. The film focuses on the emotions, quality of life, and on duty. Raju’s friendship with different people, including the director, provide a
South Asia
Urban
Informant-researcher relationship
Life Story / Life History
Reclaiming the Forest
1987
39
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Georges Drion
.
National governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants compete for control of an area of the South American rainforest. The film shows the potential conflict between the interests
South America
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
Social Conflict
The Rendille
1977
52
‘
Directed by
Chris Curling
.
The Rendille are camel herders who live in villages and camps dotted over 10,000 square miles of desert and scrub bush in Northern Kenya. As the terrain they occupy is so dry, the Rendille grow no
East Africa
Herding
Animals
Social Organisation
Everyday Life
Return of the Nightingales
2013
33
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Children / Young people
Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village
2001
48
‘
Directed by
Tone Bringa
Peter Loizos
.
The film is the sequel to ‘We are all Neighbours’, the 1993 Granada Disappearing World film, about the breakdown of relations between Muslims and Croats as war overtakes their ethnically mixed
South-East Europe
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Collective / Community identity
Refugees / Displaced populations