Anthropology Movies

  • 2019
    Midsommar

    Midsommar

    Midsommar

    7.22019HD

    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....

    Midsommar
  • 2007
    The Man from Earth

    The Man from Earth

    The Man from Earth

    7.6352007HD

    An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never...

    The Man from Earth
  • 2007
    Fierce People

    Fierce People

    Fierce People

    62007HD

    A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the...

    Fierce People
  • 1988
    The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

    The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

    The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

    6.81988HD

    An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of...

    The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
  • 1984
    Iceman

    Iceman

    Iceman

    6.11984HD

    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...

    Iceman
  • 2016
    Maggie's Plan

    Maggie's Plan

    Maggie's Plan

    5.72016HD

    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...

    Maggie's Plan
  • 2005
    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

    7.62005HD

    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: A Headbanger's Journey
  • 1991
    Begotten

    Begotten

    Begotten

    5.91991HD

    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.

    Begotten
  • 1998
    Krippendorf's Tribe

    Krippendorf's Tribe

    Krippendorf's Tribe

    4.5861998HD

    After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a...

    Krippendorf's Tribe
  • 2018
    Museo

    Museo

    Museo

    6.62018HD

    Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away...

    Museo
  • 1982
    Burden of Dreams

    Burden of Dreams

    Burden of Dreams

    7.61982HD

    The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...

    Burden of Dreams
  • 2010
    Secrets of the Tribe

    Secrets of the Tribe

    Secrets of the Tribe

    6.52010HD

    What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most...

    Secrets of the Tribe
  • 2008
    Global Metal

    Global Metal

    Global Metal

    7.32008HD

    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...

    Global Metal
  • 2019
    Hitler's Evil Science

    Hitler's Evil Science

    Hitler's Evil Science

    72019HD

    In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history...

    Hitler's Evil Science
  • 1929
    The Wild Party

    The Wild Party

    The Wild Party

    6.41929HD

    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...

    The Wild Party
  • 1953
    Statues Also Die

    Statues Also Die

    Statues Also Die

    6.71953HD

    Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the African in the anthropology museum while...

    Statues Also Die
  • 2006
    American Hardcore

    American Hardcore

    American Hardcore

    6.82006HD

    Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground...

    American Hardcore
  • 2006
    The Fox Family

    The Fox Family

    The Fox Family

    5.72006HD

    The Kumiho family circus in town -- and with it, apparently, a mysterious murderer. The members of motherless family aren’t helping their case...

    The Fox Family
  • 1973
    The Naked Ape

    The Naked Ape

    The Naked Ape

    4.41973HD

    Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine...

    The Naked Ape
  • 2004
    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    02004HD

    Filmmaker Kevin McMahon accompanies the Haida delegation on a repatriation trip to Chicago in 2003. His film reveals the whole repatriation process...

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii