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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    An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years....

    The Man from Earth
  • 2007
    Fierce People

    Fierce People (2007)

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2018
    Museo

    Museo (2018)

    Museo

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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2006
    American Hardcore

    American Hardcore (2006)

    American Hardcore

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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2019
    Hitler's Evil Science

    Hitler's Evil Science (2019)

    Hitler's Evil Science

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    In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history to legitimize a hideous system and was an accomplice to its unspeakable crimes. The story of the Ahn...

    Hitler's Evil Science
  • 1953
    Statues Also Die

    Statues Also Die (1953)

    Statues Also Die

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    Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the African in the anthropology museum while Greek or Egyptian art are in the Louvre?", the directors expose and criticize the lack of consideration for Afri...

    Statues Also Die
  • 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
  • 2004
    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii (2004)

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

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    Filmmaker Kevin McMahon accompanies the Haida delegation on a repatriation trip to Chicago in 2003. His film reveals the whole repatriation process through the stories and experiences of the people who participated, both Museum staff and the Haida pe...

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii
  • 2018
    Lupa: Na procura do mito da Raíña Loba

    Lupa: Na procura do mito da Raíña Loba (2018)

    Lupa: Na procura do mito da Raíña Loba

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    Lupa: Na procura do mito da Raíña Loba
  • 1972
    Far from the Trees

    Far from the Trees (1972)

    Far from the Trees

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    An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey to the most sinister and ances...

    Far from the Trees