Films

Film list

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Coming of Age - Margaret Mead (1901-1978) 1986 52'
Directed by André Singer.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various History of Anthropology Public Figure
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Dream Girls 1993 50'
Directed by Kim Longinotto Jano Williams.
This award-winning film opens a door into the amazing world of the Takarazuka Revue, the all-female theatre troupe in Japan. Thousands of young women aspire to perform in the Revue’s glitzy musical
Central Asia and Far East Public Figure Popular Culture Dance / Theatre / Performance Gender Role and Identity
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Eat the Kimono 1989 60'
Directed by Kim Longinotto Claire Hunt.
A compelling biography of Hanayagi Genshu, a feminist and dancer who spent her lifetime defying the conservative traditions of Japanese society with her radical politics and unconventional
Central Asia and Far East Public Figure Gender Role and Identity Art / Artists / Artisans Dance / Theatre / Performance Alternative culture
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Everything is Relatives - William Rivers (1864-1922) 1986 52'
Directed by André Singer.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various History of Anthropology Public Figure
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Firth on Firth 1993 49'
Directed by Rolf Husmann Peter Loizos Werner Sperscheinder.
In a series of interviews in his London home and the London School of Economics, Sir Raymond Firth talks about his life and some of his personal views. The film focuses thus on his Maori studies,
British-Irish Isles History of Anthropology Public Figure
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The Legacy of Antonio Lorenzano 2000 46'
Directed by Paul Henley.
Antonio Lorenzano was an acclaimed musician, shamanic healer and craftsman, and the leader of the Warao community of Morichito on the Winikina River, in the lower Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. The film
South America Death Public Figure Informant-researcher relationship Social Change Memory
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Mabo: Life of an Island Man 1997 87'
Directed by Trevor Graham.
On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction
Australia Public Figure Colonialism / Postcolonialism Life Story / Life History Political Activists Land Rights Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
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The Most Admired Man 2002 29'
Directed by Julia Berg.
'Wise'? 'Serene'? 'A Sage'? Mythologized as the Daoist physician from the Jade Dragon Mountain of Lijiang Province in southwest China , Dr Ho receives hundreds of visitors in search of the 'Real
South-East Asia Public Figure Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
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Off the Verandah - Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) 1986 52'
Directed by André Singer.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various History of Anthropology Public Figure
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The Professional Foreigner 2009 60'
Directed by Rolf Husmann.
Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen
Various Film / Photography / Mass media History of Anthropology Public Figure
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The Shackles of Tradition - Franz Boas (1858-1942) 1986 52'
Directed by André Singer.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various History of Anthropology Public Figure
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Strange Beliefs - Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973) 1986 52'
Directed by André Singer.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various History of Anthropology Public Figure
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We Are Born to Survive 1995 30'
Directed by Paul Henley Paul Okojie.
A political biography of the activist Kath Locke, from Manchester's Moss Side, based on an interview conducted by her political comrade Paul Okojie shortly before her death in 1992, aged 64.
British-Irish Isles Political Activists Race / Racism / Antiracism Public Figure