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 Earth7.6352007HD
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never...
- 2007
Fierce People
Fierce People62007HD
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 1998
Krippendorf's Tribe
Krippendorf's Tribe4.5861998HD
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a...
- 2018
Museo
Museo6.62018HD
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away...
- 1982
Burden of Dreams
Burden of Dreams7.61982HD
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1929
The Wild Party
The Wild Party6.41929HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2004
Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii
Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii02004HD
Filmmaker Kevin McMahon accompanies the Haida delegation on a repatriation trip to Chicago in 2003. His film reveals the whole repatriation process...