Anthropology Movies
- 2019
Midsommar
Midsommar7.22019HD
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....
- 2007
The Man from Earth
The Man from Earth7.62007HD
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never...
- 1991
Begotten
Begotten5.91991HD
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.
- 2016
Maggie's Plan
Maggie's Plan5.72016HD
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 vo...
- 1984
Iceman
Iceman6.11984HD
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 befrie...
- 2007
Fierce People
Fierce People6.0272007HD
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yan...
- 2005
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey7.62005HD
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,...
- 1988
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years6.81988HD
An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendar...
- 1998
Krippendorf's Tribe
Krippendorf's Tribe4.61998HD
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a h...
- 1982
Burden of Dreams
Burden of Dreams7.5671982HD
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982),a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems relat...
- 2006
American Hardcore
American Hardcore6.82006HD
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardc...
- 2018
Museo
Museo6.6242018HD
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away w...
- 2008
Global Metal
Global Metal7.32008HD
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...
- 1953
Statues Also Die
Statues Also Die6.71953HD
Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the African in the anthropology museum while Greek or Egy...
- 1973
The Naked Ape
The Naked Ape4.41973HD
Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publ...
- 2006
The Fox Family
The Fox Family5.72006HD
The Kumiho family circus in town -- and with it, apparently, a mysterious murderer. The members of motherless family aren’t helping their case with th...
- 2015
The Taste of the Name
The Taste of the Name02015HD
Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality. A...
- 2019
Hitler's Evil Science
Hitler's Evil Science72019HD
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history...
- 2017
JANBAL
JANBAL02017HD
From time immemorial, the people of the island used to leave the clothes of their dead to the sea, so that the mother of the sea could turn them into...
- 2010
Secrets of the Tribe
Secrets of the Tribe6.52010HD
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most ex...