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1) Tribe
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the frozen tundra of northern Siberia live the Nenet reindeer herders. Bruce Parry spends a month with a Nenet brigade as they carry out their winter migration, travelling hundreds of miles as temperatures drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius. Their warmth and hospitality could not be more different from the extreme cold of their harsh surroundings.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From Chinese New Year to Christmas, “Let's Celebrate” looks at religious and cultural festivals from a child’s perspective. Each episode visits a different UK community to witness a family dressing up, decorate the house, prepare food, or exchange gifts. A musical or dramatic performance tells the story behind the festival. In Part Five, Charlotte introduces viewers to the festival celebrating St. David, the patron saint of Wales. She and her...
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In every culture, our rituals reveal what it means to be human. They allow us to express our identity, join us together and help us navigate through life. Extraordinary Rituals explores moments we all experience from birth and death to marriage and funerals. Highlighting ancient and modern ceremonies, spectacular and extreme, from the cities of Japan to the jungles of New Guinea.
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Language
English
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Social media is changing how the world works. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Africa's most populous city, Lagos. In this bustling metropolis of an estimated 23 million people, around 10 million are under the age of 25 and their numbers are rising rapidly. Tech savvy and increasingly well connected, they have embraced social media and, in the process, a new generation of high profile and highly paid personalities have emerged. In this episode...
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cities investigates the symbiotic link between urban living and civilization—there have been no cities without civilization, no civilizations without cities. The world’s first settlements were in Mesopotamia, where the emergence of farming created the calories necessary for people to feed themselves on a permanent basis. This led to an exponential increase in population and a blossoming of innovation —civilization itself.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. charts the ancient rise of Christianity and Islam, whose economic and cultural influence stretched from Egypt to Ethiopia. Learn of African religious figures like King Lalibela, an Ethiopian saint, and Menelik, bringer of the Ark of the Covenant.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In North America and western Europe there is a growing interest in the spiritual practices and ideas of the world's native peoples. In this program, Hans Kung first travels to Australia to investigate the beliefs of today's Aborigines through ceremonies involving body painting, music, and dance. He then journeys to Africa, the cradle of humankind, to gain insights into tribal culture through modern rites that include torchlight processions, dance,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Stefan travels to China, finding out how the rapid pace of modernization is changing the way people eat. He spends a day working at the Kung Fu fast food joint and samples the menu of a Beijing penis restaurant. He also attempts to shake off his Communist Party minders to talk to one of China's poverty-stricken farmers.
12) Glorious Exit
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jarreth Merz, an actor of Swiss-Nigerian extraction living in Los Angeles, finds himself grappling with his heritage when he discovers that his father has died. According to Nigerian tradition, the first-born is in charge of a father’s burial. But who is this father? And why does Jarreth feel morally bound towards a family whom he hardly knows and who has never been particularly interested in him? Thus, starts a journey of discovery into his origins....
13) For Love
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For Love" is a film of resilience and resurgence. Colonization has led to many adverse impacts on the Indigenous population of Canada - most significantly on familial and societal structures.
14) Lands of Women
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In Mexico, there is still a community where Zapotec women rule the economy. How does this land of women thrive in one of the world's most macho countries? When Sergeï Eisenstein, the master of Soviet cinema, filmed in Mexico in the 1930s, he was fascinated by this atypical community of women. These women, heirs to a 2,500-year old civilization are the Zapotecs. He describes them as strong traders who collect gold and choose their own husbands: a...
15) The Primal Mind
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
In The Primal Mind, author Jamake Highwater explores differences in how American Indians and people of a Western or European heritage experience themselves and their environments. Illustrated through contrasting views of art, time, architecture, medicine, and dance, The Primal Mind identifies important distinctions between a mind rooted in respect for nature, sacred myths, and rituals and a mind that strives toward achievement, order, and the desire...
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
In Native Land: Nomads of the Dawn, author Jamake Highwater uses a tapestry of ritual dance, drama, and storytelling to trace the path of the nomads who discovered the Americas and created the complex civilizations of the Aztecs, Incas, and other South American peoples. See how their histories and legacies have survived through their myths and art. Experience the transformation of cave drawings into the dancing frenzy of the ritual hunt. Examine the...
Language
English
Description
This film highlights the Caribbean's architecture and built environment, from historical wooden houses to modern shopping centers. Tour a middle class home in the Wainwright St. neighborhood of Port of Spain and a plantation home in San Rafael village. Then visit a community church in Guaico to learn how concrete blocks are used for ventilation. In Paix Bouche, Dominica, school children show viewers their campus and rehearse for a choir performance....
Series
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English
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Delve deeper into the dastardly deeds of history’s greatest blockbuster rulers as this new series dishes up the much-loved revolting recipe of sketches and songs peppered with gruesome gags and hideous hilarity, but adds a bold new twist and an exciting new cast. Each episode will take a sideways look at the life and times of one prominent historical figure. The approach is even bigger and bolder, capturing the rottenest, most remarkable names across...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Robert D. Mowry introduces the development of Korean Buddhist art from its formative phase in the late Three Kingdoms (57 bce–668 ce) and Unified Silla (668–935) periods through its maturation in the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), emphasizing architecture and sculpture in the earlier periods and paintings and illuminated sutras in the later periods. Due to the ascendance of Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism fell into decline during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910),...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Numbering no more than a few thousand, tiny groups of intrepid humans began to move out of Africa—eventually dominating the planet. How did these early humans acquire the skills, technology, and talent to thrive in every environment on earth? Takes a global journey through the past, following our ancestors' footsteps out of Africa along a trail of scientific clues to help unravel the mystery of how we got where we are.
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