- Time-span
- 20th - 21st Century
- Subscription Type
- SUBSCRIPTION
- Publisher
- Alexander Street
- Notes
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- Global, with footage from every continent and hundreds of cultures.
- Languages
- English
- Resource Types
- Images and Sound
- Description
- Online resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior, with more than 2000 hours of documentaries, primary-source footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers, and select feature films. The collection is organized into multiple volumes. Volumes I and II: Foundational Films contains classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent, to introduce and contextualize hundreds of cultural groups and practices around the world. Volume III: Indigenous Voices consists of documentaries, feature films and shorts made by and for indigenous people and communities. Volume IV: Festivals and Archives includes films from ethnographic film festivals as well as student and faculty field recordings and edited films held in university and institutional repositories.