Lost short film about the death of the last Aztec Emperor.
Lost film critical of the poor treatment that Maya peons received on the haciendas.
Lost short film about the encounter of Juan Diego with the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Lost short film about a Tlaxcaltec warrior noted for his skill and ethical standards named Tlahuicole.
Les enjeux de la beauté dans une petite île polynésienne. Une fiction documentaire de Robert Flaherty dans la veine de Nanouk l'Esquimau.
Documentary detailing the hardships of life among Alaskan Natives.
In an indigenous village a murder occurs, and young man is sentenced to death for it. However his father, the real culprit, takes the responsibility.
Documentary about the kolla people living in North Western Argentina.
En Malaisie, Peter Willems, protégé du vieux capitaine Lingard, est un homme faible, désespéré, trop sensible aux influences néfastes. Un jour, motivé par la cupidité, mais aussi par l'amour que lui inspire une jolie jeune femme, il trahit son protecteur et s'enfuit. Accompagné de sa belle, il se cache sur une île.
The Living Stone is a 1958 Canadian short documentary film directed by John Feeney about Inuit art. It shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture. The Inuit approach to the work is to release the image the artist sees imprisoned in the rough stone. The film centres on an old legend about the carving of the image of a sea spirit to bring food to a hungry camp. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
A group of scientists are trying to stop a filaria epidemic spreading through a Tahitian population. They meet resistance in using western medicine to combat the disease from the medicine man and chief until the chief's son is infested with the parasitic worm which causes the disease.
Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian.
This short documentary depicts the formation in 1959 of the first successful co-operative in an Inuit community in Northern Québec. The film describes how, with other Inuit of the George River community, the Annanacks formed a joint venture that included a sawmill, a fish-freezing plant and a small boat-building industry.
Le film suit Robert Davidson, un jeune artiste Haida sur la côte pacifique du Canada qui taille des totems miniatures en argilite.
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.
Navajo Film Themselves is a series of seven short documentaries: Intrepid Shadows (1966), The Navajo Silversmith (1966), A Navajo Weaver (1966), Old Antelope Lake (1966), Second Weaver (1966), The Shallow Well Project (1966), and The Spirit of the Navajos (1966).
Based on the story The Idol of the Cyclades from the book End of the Game by Julio Cortazar.