Anthropological Films
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1. Nanook of the North (1922)
Passed | 78 min | Documentary
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou, Allegoo
Votes: 13,458
2. Homo Sapiens 1900 (1998)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Homo Sapiens 1900 is a stunning exploration of the history of eugenics, race hygiene and the quest to improve the human race. Emerging at the turn of the century, eugenic movements spawned government sanctioned research projects
Director: Peter Cohen | Stars: Jan Holmquist, Vladimir Lenin, Trofim Lysenko, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 213 | Gross: $0.00M
3. Ethnic Notions (1986)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary
This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.
Director: Marlon Riggs | Stars: Barbara T. Christian, George Frederickson, Larry C. Levine, Derique McGee
Votes: 557
4. Salmer fra kjøkkenet (2003)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A scientific observer's job of observing an old cantankerous single man's kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him.
Director: Bent Hamer | Stars: Tomas Norström, Joachim Calmeyer, Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson
Votes: 8,667 | Gross: $0.35M
5. Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)
Not Rated | 135 min | Fantasy
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
Director: Matthew Barney | Stars: Matthew Barney, Björk, Shigeru Akahori, Naomi Araki
Votes: 1,559 | Gross: $0.23M
6. El regalo de la Pachamama (2008)
102 min
Kunturi is a 13-year old boy living a traditional life with his family near Uyuni, a salt lake. They cut bricks of salt by hand, which they use to exchange for other products of the the ... See full summary »
Director: Toshifumi Matsushita | Stars: Christian Huaygua, Luis Mamaní, Faniy Mosques, Francisco Gutierrez
Votes: 58
7. Italy in a Day (2014)
75 min | Documentary
On one day in October 2013, thousands of Italians record video of their lives, collected by the director to this kaleidoscopic portrait of a troubled but vibrant country.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Lorenzo Ciani, Corinna Rombi, Nikolas Grasso, Alessia Gatti
Votes: 473
8. Leviathan (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel | Stars: Brian Jannelle, Adrian Guillette, Arthur Smith, Asterias Vulgaris
Votes: 3,794 | Gross: $1.09M
9. Herdsmen of the Sun (1989 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and 'beauty pageants', where eligible young... See full summary »
Director: Werner Herzog | Star: Werner Herzog
Votes: 842
10. Manakamana (2013)
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary
A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.
Directors: Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez | Stars: Chabbi Lal Gandharba, Anish Gandharba, Bindu Gayek, Narayan Gayek
Votes: 779
11. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale I (2011)
Not Rated | 144 min | Action, Drama, History
An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.
Director: Te-Sheng Wei | Stars: Masanobu Andô, Jun'ichi Haruta, Sabu Kawahara, Shiang-Chu Tang
Votes: 7,330 | Gross: $0.14M
12. Amish Grace (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 89 min | Biography, Drama
When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the ... See full summary »
Director: Gregg Champion | Stars: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Tammy Blanchard, Fay Masterson, Madison Mason
Votes: 2,086
13. Sushi: The Global Catch (2011)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, History, News
In this meticulously researched documentary, filmmaker Mark Hall traces the origins of sushi in Japan to its status today as a cuisine that has spawned a lucrative worldwide industry.
Director: Mark Hall
Votes: 520 | Gross: $0.01M
14. My Name Is Salt (2013)
92 min | Documentary
Year after year, for an endless eight months, thousands of families move to a desert in India to extract salt from the burning earth. Every monsoon their salt fields are washed away, as the desert turns into sea.
Director: Farida Pacha | Stars: Chhanabhai Bababhai Pagi, Devuben Chhanabhai Pagi, Guhabhai Lakshmanbhai Rathod, Manju
Votes: 310
15. Butter Lamp (2013)
22 min | Short, Drama
A young photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to take their picture. Against diverse and more or less exotic backgrounds, families appear to the photographer. Through ... See full summary »
Director: Tamdin Dorje
Votes: 49
16. ThuleTuvalu (2014)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary, News
When the ice melts in Thule, Tuvalu drowns in the ocean. A touching portrait of people whose joint fates are intimately linked though they live at two completely distant corners of the world.
Director: Matthias von Gunten | Stars: Rasmus Avike, Lars Jeremiassen, Patrick Malaki, Takuao Malaki
Votes: 117
17. The Lost Sea (2013)
63 min | Documentary, History, War
The fate of horseshoe crabs, a 200-million-year-old species, today clearly rests with humans--a species less than one in a thousand their own age. The ideological impasse between ... See full summary »
Director: Chun-hsiu Hung
18. Walking Under Water (2014)
76 min | Documentary, Family
Walking Under Water will take us under the waves to walk with the last compressor divers from the Badjao tribe in Mabul Island.
Director: Eliza Kubarska
Votes: 55
19. Human Terrain (2010)
TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary
'Human Terrain' is two stories in one. The first exposes the U.S. effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies.... See full summary »
Directors: James Der Derian, David Udris, Michael Udris
Votes: 18
20. Tanna (2015)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister's loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.
Directors: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean | Stars: Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa, Marceline Rofit, Charlie Kahla
Votes: 4,685 | Gross: $0.01M
21. Concursante (2007)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
A black comedy chronicling the fate of the biggest gameshow prize in history.
Director: Rodrigo Cortés | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Chete Lera, Miryam Gallego, Fernando Cayo
Votes: 1,816
22. Windtalkers (2002)
R | 134 min | Action, Drama, War
Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich
Votes: 73,666 | Gross: $40.91M
23. Louder Than Bombs (2015)
R | 109 min | Drama
The fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Devin Druid
Votes: 14,201 | Gross: $0.16M
24. In a Savage Land (1999)
Not Rated | 115 min | Adventure, Drama
Two married anthropologists go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research.
Director: Bill Bennett | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Martin Donovan, Maya Stange, Max Cullen
Votes: 583
26. Journey of Man (2003 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary
Traces the expansion of the human race from central Africa to Asia to the edge of South America.
Director: Clive Maltby | Stars: William H. Calvin, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Nina Jablonski, Richard Klein
Votes: 240
27. The Anthropologist (2015)
TV-14 | 78 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST considers the fate of the planet from the perspective of an American teenager. Over five years, she travels alongside her mother, an anthropologist studying the impact of climate change on indigenous communities.
Directors: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger | Stars: Mary Catherine Bateson, Susan Crate, Margaret Mead, Kathryn Yegorov-Crate
Votes: 131
28. The Raft (2018)
97 min | Documentary
In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying the sociology of violence, aggression and sexual attraction in human ... See full summary »
Director: Marcus Lindeen | Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Fe Seymour, Maria Björnstam, Servane Zanotti
Votes: 1,045 | Gross: $0.04M
29. Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
87 min | Documentary
Filmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.
Directors: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier | Stars: Youssef Suleiman Mohammed, Alicia Vikander
Votes: 2,060
30. Sequestrada (2019)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama
When Belo Monte dam displaces an indigenous girl, she must rely on a white man to save her people - although he is the key to their destruction.
Directors: Sabrina McCormick, Soopum Sohn | Stars: Sam Lilja, Gretchen Mol, Tim Blake Nelson, Marcelo Olinto
Votes: 37
31. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (I) (1959)
Not Rated | 208 min | Drama, History, War
A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima
Votes: 9,361
32. Princess Mononoke (1997)
PG-13 | 134 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Billy Crudup
Votes: 433,974 | Gross: $2.38M
33. Para'i (2018)
82 min | Drama
Para'í tells the story of a Guarani girl who, by chance, finds a traditional cob of Guarani corn, which she had never seen before. She is fascinated by the beauty of multicolored seeds. ... See full summary »
Director: Vinicius Toro | Stars: Lucas Augusto Martim, Samara Cristina Pará Mirim O. Martim, Monique Ramos Ara Poty Mattos, Sônia Barbosa Ara Mirim
Votes: 14
34. Reservation Dogs (2021–2023)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Crime
Comedy series about four Native American teenagers growing up on a reservation in eastern Oklahoma.
Stars: D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Devery Jacobs, Paulina Alexis, Lane Factor
Votes: 24,254
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