Movies

Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the...

An ethnographic documentary following four Ju/’hoansi (!Kung) men during a multi-day giraffe hunt in the Kalahari Desert, filmed during the...

FIRST FILM was edited and narrated by Lorna Marshall and is comprised of footage shot in 1951 on the second Marshall family expedition to the...

This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana.

In each scene, police respond to a different domestic abuse calls.

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first...

A customer tries to explain to police why he feels he has been cheated out of an exhaust system by a garage owner.

This film focuses on a black burglary suspect who, during interrogation by police offers his services as an "undercover" informant - providing the...

Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree.

An unemployed woman who has been living in her car is questioned by the police. They offer her advice and finally take her to the Salvation Army.

In Nyae Nyae, water often remains in open pans. Sometimes if the rains have been heavy, water stays in these pans, like small lakes, all year. In...

The police, looking for a suspect, question the wrong youth.

This short film shows a family's attempt to resolve a dispute among themselves over a brother's damaged car, after the police have been called to...

Investigation of a Hit and Run follows two officers as they investigate a hit-and-run accident from initial reports to the questioning of witnesses...

This film depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great-uncle /Ti!kay. The two share a "joking relationship,"...

This film consists of sequences from the Pittsburgh Police footage intercut with a panel discussion moderated by Professor James Vorenberg of Harvard...

In this film a five-year-old named Debe refuses to let his mother Di!ai go gathering without him. Di!ai appeals to her daughter N!ai to entertain the...

Policemen intervene when a woman calls to complain that her boyfriend stole forty dollars. The argument soon escalates as the man refuses to admit...

Follows police patrol cars 901 and 904 as they ply the streets of Pittsburgh, responding to diverse situations.

This film illustrates the field techniques used by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan in collaboration with...