ANTHROPOLOGY THEMED MOVIES

Midsommar
2019
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the re...
The Man from Earth
2007
A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn wh...
Maggie's Plan
2016
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 marrie...
Iceman
1984
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. St...
Begotten
1991
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of n...
Burden of Dreams
1982
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon fi...
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard ev...
Secrets of the Tribe
2010
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existe...
Museo
2018
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum o...
Fierce People
2006
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in ...
The Wild Party
1929
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too...
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
1988
An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert foot...
The Fox Family
2006
The Kumiho family circus in town -- and with it, apparently, a mysterious murderer. The members of motherless family are...
American Hardcore
2006
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chro...
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
2005
The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New Wave of British Heavy...
The Naked Ape
1973
Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama pro...
Killed by Lightning
2002
An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood whe...
The Sea Stares at Us from Afar
2018
Huelva, Spain, an isolated region lost in time. The grass, the sand and the sky are the same that those foreigners saw i...
Global Metal
2008
In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most maligned musical genre - h...
Hitler's Evil Science
2019
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community suppor...