Anthropological Films at the University of Chicago Library

The University of Chicago Library maintains a modest collection of VHS or DVD editions of ethnographic and other films that are likely to be of interest to anthropologists. Many of these videos are listed below. These films may be borrowed at the Reserve Circulation desk in Joseph Regenstein Library (see note).

This list is not the only source of information on the Library's video collection. For a more complete (but not necessarily more up-to-date) list of videos held by the Library, click here. Virtually all the Library's videos have been cataloged, and you can search the Library's on-line catalog for videos by including the word "videorecording" in keyword searches--or by limiting search results to "Videos, DVDs, films, slides, etc." You can also browse the boxes in which the films were originally packaged; they are kept in the Fourth Floor Reading Room of Regenstein Library.

The Library is not the only source of films on campus. The Film Studies Center and the Center for Latin American Studies also maintain film collections that can be used (with certain restrictions) by those affiliated with the University.

Act of war : the overthrow of the Hawaiian nation / producers/directors, Puhipau, Joan Lander.
Call no.: DU627.2.A38 1993

Advertising missionaries / director, Chris Hilton, Gauthier Flauder.
Call no.: F5813.P36A38 1996

Afrique, je te plumerai / un film de Jean-Marie Teno.
Call no.: DT572.A374 1992

Aimé Cesaire : a voice for history / Saligna and So On ... [et al.].
Call no.: PQ3949.C44Z52 1994

Amazon journal / producer/director Geoffrey O'Conner.
Call no.: F2520.1.Y3A429 1995

Another world is possible : impressions of the World Social Forum / written and directed by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young ; [presented by] Moving Images.
Call no.: JZ1318.A56 2002

Anthropologists at work : careers making a difference / American Anthropological Association.
Call no.: GN20.A688 1993

Apu condor : the condor god / Gianfranco Norelli, producer.
Call no.: F2230.2.K4N674 1992

Arawete´ / Murilo Santos, direcao e camera.
Call no.: F2520.1.A77A739 1992

'Are'are music / directed by Hugo Zemp.
Call no.: DU850.A7 1993

ASL storytime [sign language materials].
Call no.: HV2508.A85 1991

At the edge of conquest : the journey of Chief Wai-Wai / produced by Geoffrey O'Connor.
Call no.: F2460.1.O9A8 1992

Atanarjuat = The fast runner [DVD] / Igloolik Isuma Productions ; producers, Paul Apak Angilirq ...
Call no.: PN1997.A835 2003

The ax fight / a film by Timothy Asch & Napoleon A. Chagnon.
Call no.: F2520.1.Y3A92 1980z

Bajo la cruz = Rub'el kurus / producción, Ak'Kutan; camara y edición, Mainor Pacay; guión y dirección, Carlos Flores [Maya vs. military in Guatemala].
Call no.: F1465.2.K5B356 1997

Benaat Chicago (daughters of Chicago) : growing up Arab and female in Chicago / Chicago Center of the American Friends Service Committee.
Call no.: Inquire at 5th floor module

Bitter melons / photography and direction, John Marshall ; ethnography, Lorna Marshall.
Call no.: DT1058.S36B4 1986

Black harvest / produced and directed by Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly.
Call no.: DU740.82.L42B622 1992

Bushmen of the Kalahari / produced by the National Geographic Society and Wolper Productions ; directed and photographed by Robert M. Young, John Marshall ; written by Bud Wiser.
Call no.: DT764.B8B87 1974

Celebration of origins : Wai Brama, Flores, Eastern Indonesia, 1980 / produced by Dept. of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University ; Timothy Asch, cinemaphotographer.
Call no.: GN635.I65C4 1992

La chasse au lion / director, Jean Rouch ; producer, Pierre Braunberger ; narrator, Jean Rouch.
Call no.: SK305.L5C527 1965

Chef ; Tête dans les nuages.
Call no.: JQ3523.5.A55A773 1999

Coming of age / written and presented by Bruce Dakowski [in part about Margaret Mead].
Call no.: GN21.M36C6 1990

Contact : the Yanomami Indians of Brazil / producer/camera, Geoffrey O'Conner ; editor, Hughes Winborne.
Call no.: F2520.1.Y3C66 1990

The cross and the crossroads / directed by Brian Brazeal.
Call no.: in processing

Dakan / durector, Mohamed Camara [about Guinea].
Call no.: PN1997.D353 1997

Dancing with the Incas : Huayno music of Peru / camera, produced, and directed by John Cohen.
Call no.: ML3575.P4D36 1991

Dani houses / a film by Karl G. Heider.
Call no.: DU744.35.D32D365 1980z

Daughters of the dust / written and directed by Julie Dash.
Call no.: E185.6.D3 1992

Day on the Grand Canal with the emperor of China, or, surface is illusion but so is depth / by David Hockney and Philip Haas.
Call no.: ND1043.5.D39 1991

Dead birds / photography, editing, writing, Robert Gardner.
Call no.: DU744.35.D32D43 1980z

Dhiava : the autumn journey / by David Hope and Tim Salmon [about Greece].
Call no.: GN407.7.D45 1999

Discovering the music of Africa / Bernard Wilets.
Call no.: ML350.D57 1994

Doon School chronicles : a study in ten parts / a film by David McDougall.
Call no.: LG170.D66D66 2000

Drum and the mask : art and rituals of the people of Melanesia / Chess Productions.
Call no.: GN671.N5D785 1999

Encyclopédie de la mythologie maya yucathèque : les labyrinthes sonores / un film de Michel Boccara.
Call no.: F1435.3.R3B632 1997

Everything is relatives / written and presented by Bruce Dakowski [in part about W.H.R. Rivers].
Call no: GN21.R53E937 1990

Everyone's child / directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Call no.: PN1997.E96 1996

Faat kine / film de Sembene Ousmane.
Call no.: PN1997.F338 2000

Familiar places / Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies ; directed by David MacDougall.
Call no.: GN666.F365 1980

The feast / a film by Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon.
Call no.: F2520.1.Y3F43 1990z

A Festa da moca /direccao e fotografia, Vincent Carrelli ; realizacao Projeto Video nas Aldeias.
Call no.: PN1992.934.B6F47 1988

Festive land : carnaval in Bahia / directed by Carolina Moraes-Liu.
Call no.: GT4233.S25F47 2001

Fieldwork / written and presented by Bruce Dakowski [about W. Baldwin Spencer and contemporaries].
Call no.: GN21.B35F5 1990

Finzan / Cheick Oumar Sissoku.
Call no.: PN1997.F559 1990

First contact / produced and directed by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson.
Call no.: GN671.N50

Forest of bliss / Robert Gardner.
Call no.: DS486.B4G38 2001

Four families / National Film Board ; Margaret Mead.
Call no.: HQ768.F68 1980z

Frantz Fanon : black skin, white mask / written by Isaac Julian & Mark Nash.
Call no.: CT2628.F35F726 1995

Free-for-all in Sarare / Centro de Trabalho Indigenista ; direction, Vincent Carelli, Mauricio Longobardi, Virginia Valadao.
Call no.: F2520.1.N3F744 1992

Future remembrance : photography and image arts in Ghana / IWF ; a film by Tobias Wendl and Nancy du Plessis.
Call no.: TR119.G45F888 1988

La genèse.
Call no.: PN1997.G412 1999

The goddess and the computer / produced & directed [by] Steve Lansing, Andre Singer.
Call no.: GN635.I65G64 1988

Going with the flow : an anthropologist among the Bosnians, 1953-1997 / Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern.
Call no.: DR1672.G65 1997

Le grand blanc de Lambarené / L.N. Production ... [et al.].
Call no.: PN1997.G736 1995

Guardians of the flutes / Paul Reddish, producer ; Gilbert Herdt, anthropologist.
Call no.: DU740.42.G837 1994

Guns and money / reporter, Liz Jackson [about Solomon Islands].
Call no.: DU850.G868 2002

Halperns in Orasac / directed by Kamenko Katic [on the work of Joel M. Halpern and Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern].
Call no.: GN585.Y8H35 1986

Hanunoo / photography and field recordings of sound by Harold C. Conklin.
Call no.: DS666.H36H368 1993

Her name came on arrows : a kinship interview with the Baruya of New Guinea / Maurice Godelier.
Call no.: DU740.42.B37H47 1982

History of Britain, 3500 B.C.-1603 A.D. / written and presented by Simon Schama.
Call no.: DA30.H518 2000

Hopi, songs of the fourth world / producer/director, Pat Ferrero.
Call no.: E99.H7H687 1983

The hunters / produced by the Film Study Center of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University ; written and directed by John Marshall.
Call no.: GT5856.84.H86 1989

Hyènes = Hyenas / Djibril Diop Mambety.
Call no.: PT2607.U493B4 1993

If only I were an Indian / directed by John Paskievich ; Zemma Pictures in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.
Call no.: E98.S7I3 1995

Iindawo zikathixo = In God's places / by Richard Wicksteed.
Call no.: GN865.S5I375 1997

Imagining Indians / writer, producer, director, cinematographer, editor, Victor Masayesva, Jr.
Call no.: E98.S67I52 1992

Imbalu : ritual of manhood of the Bagisu of Uganda / a film by Richard Hawkins and Suzette Heald.
Call no.: DT434.U2I42 1988

Imperfect journey / a film by Haile Gerima.
Call no.: DT379.5.I56 1994

In search of the Trojan War / a BBC film production ; written and presented by Michael Wood.
Call no.: DF221.T8I5 1989

In the shadow of the sun / by Nadine Wanono & Philippe Lourdou [about Dogon].
Call no.: DT551.45.D64A46 1998

Into the circle : an introduction to Native American powwows / Full Circle.
Call no.: E98.D2I58 1992

Inventari del patrimoni arqueologic de Catalunya : corpus de pintures rupestres.
Call no.: GN836.C4.I580 1990

Island of the red prawns / written and produced by William R. Geddes.
Call no.: DU600.I85 1980z

Jaguar / Films de la Pleiade ; presented by Pierre Braunberger ; producer and director, Jean Rouch.
Call no.: DT471.J35 1980z

Joe Leahy's neighbors / producers and directors, Robin Anderson and Bob Connally.
Call no.: DU740.82.L42J63 1988

Juvenile court / directed and produced by Frederick Wiseman.
Call no.: XXKF9710.J88 1975

JVC Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of Africa.
Call no.: ML3760.J832 1996

Kawelka : Ongka's big moka / Granada Television International ; director/producer, Charles Nairn ; anthropologist, Andrew Strathern.
Call no.: DU744.35.K38 1991

The Kayapó / produced and directed by Michael Beckham ; anthropologist, Terry Turner.
Call no.: F2520.1.C45K392 1991

The Kayapó : out of the forest / produced and directed by Michael Beckham ; anthropologist, Terry Turner.
Call no.: F2520.1.C45K38 1991

Keep the river on your right : a modern cannibal tale / a film by David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro [about Tobias Schneebaum].
Call no.: GN409.K447 2002

Keita : l'héritage du griot / un film de Dani Kouyaté.
Call no.: PN1997.K447 1994

Kenya Boran / American Universities Field Staff ; by David MacDougall and James Blue.
Call no.: BR433.545.B67K469 1990z

Kinja Iakaha, a day in the village / Waimiri Atroari, Video in the Villages present ; production, PWA-Programa, Video nas Aldeias ; direction and camera, Araduwa Waimiri, et al.
Call no.: F2520.1.W34K565 2003

Kula, ring of power / Rob Scott.
Call no.: GN671.N5M58 2000

!Kung San : resettlement / compiled from the original work and film footage of John Marshall.
Call no.: DT797.K87 1988

Kypseli : women and men apart / by Susannah M. Hoffman ... [et al.].
Call no.: DF951.K97K97 1973

The language you cry in.
Call no.: M1838.S5L36 1998

The Lau of Malaita / Granada Television ; produced and directed by Leslie Woodhead ; anthropologist, Pierre Maranda.
Call no.: GN671.S6L38 1991

Lorang's way / produced and directed by David and Judith MacDougall.
Call no.: DT433.545.T87L673 1980

Make prayers to the raven / produced in cooperation with the people of the Koyukuk River.
Call no.: E99.K79M3 1987

Makiko's new world / producer/writer, David Plath ; director/editor, Chet Kinkaid.
Call no.: DS897.K85M355 1999

Man of Aran / directed by Robert Flaherty.
Call no.: DA990.A8M25

Mandabi = The money order / written and directed by Ousmane Sembene.
Call no.: DT14.M363 1999

Manejemos nuestros montes = Yayangareko yande kaareta re ; Guardianos silenciosos.
Call no.: F3319.1.S25M35 1997

Mapantsula / an Oliver Schmidt and Thomas Moglotane film.
Call no.: PN1997.M363 1988

Masai women / Granada Television International.
Call no.: DT443.3.M37M37 2003

Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz de la Ladrillera / 1989 video by Martha Hartzog, Paul Congo, Dan Hildebrand ; 1987 Smithsonian video from the Archive of the Center for Folklife Programs & Cultural Studies.
Call no.: GV1796.M35M38 1996

Mbira music : the spirit of the people / director, Simon Bright.
Call no.: ML350.M35 1990

Meeting ancestors / direction, Vincent Carelli, Dominique Gallois ; Video nas Aldeias.
Call no.: F2519.M448 1993

Mister Johnson / produced by Michael Fitzgerald.
Call no.: PN1997.M578 1996

Moyngo, the dream of Maragareum / Video in the Villages and the MOYGU Association present ; direction and camera, Kumari Txicao, Natuyu Txicao Karani Txicao ; production, Video in the Villages.
Call no.: F2519.3.R3M696 2003

Mujeres indígenas de las tierras bajas de Bolivia.
Call no.: F3319.1.S25M85 1996

Nanook of the North / Robert Flaherty.
Call no.: E99.E7N3 1989

Nawi / produced by David MacDougall.
Call no.: DT433.245.J54N395 1970

Nomads on the Savannah / produced and directed by Barbara J. Michael, Anne Marie Kocherhans.
Call no.: DT154.9.N65 1991

North, landscape of the imagination / produced by Sound Venture Productions for the National Library of Canada.
Call no.: E59.A7N678 1993

Nu ho ni yeh / produced and directed by Allen and Mary Code [about Sayisi Dene].
Call no.: E99.T56C634 1992

The Nuer / produced by Robert Gardner and Hilary Harris.
Call no.: DT155.2.N85N847 1981

Off the verandah / written and presented by Bruce Dakowski [about Bronislaw Malinowski].
Call no.: GN21.M25O33 1990

On representing Ghanaian performance : a video presentation / Roderick Luis Coover [from dissertation].
Call no. GN999 Coover

Once were warriors / Lee Tamhori, director.
Call no.: PN1997.O5243 1995

A pedagogy of place : Little Singer Community School, Navajo Nation / Illinois Staff and Curriculum Developers Association.
Call no.: E99.N3L5 2000

Pemp / Centro de Trabalho Indigenista ; realizacao, Projeto Video nas Aldeias.
Call no.: F2520.1.U7K358 1988

Petite vendeuse de soleil / Djibril Diop Mambety.
Call no.: PN1997.P48 1999

The peyote road : ancient religion in contemporary crisis / a Kifaru production in association with Peacedream Productions ; coordinated by Native American religious Freedom Project.
Call no.: E98.R3P49 1993

Picturing a people : George Johnston, Tlingit photographer / National Film Board of Canada ; director, Carol Geddes.
Call no.: E99.T6P53 1997

Piemule [and] Jakub / Jana Sevcíková.
Call no.: DB2042.R8S483 1992

O povo brasileiro / da obra de Darcy Ribeiro.
Call no.: F2510.P686 2000

Primate / made by Primate Films ; director and editor, Frederick Wiseman.
Call no.: QL737.P9P745 1990z Sci

Primate patterns II / Anne Zeller.
Call no.: QL737.P9Z452 1987

Pueblo de madera / Conacite Dos, S.A. de C.V. y Television Espanola (TVE, S.A.) presentan ; argumento y guion cinematografico Juan Antonio de la Riva, Francisco Sanchez ; direccion Juan Antonio de la Riva.
Call no.: PN1997.P843 2000

Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer / adaptation et dialogues, Raymond Rajaonarivelo et Santiago Amigorena ; un film de Raymond Rajaonarivelo.
Call no.: PN1997.Q826 1995

Ra 'mui ra nahnu = Vivencias del Nahnu.
Call no.: F1221.O86R31 1999

Rabbit-proof fence [about Australian Aborigines].
Call no.: PN1997.R333 2003

Regopstaan's dream / TVE International ; BBC Worldwide ; produced by Paulat Pascalo ; directed by Christopher Walker [about the San].
Call no.: DT2458.S26R45 2000

Rouch in reverse / a film by Manthia Diawara.
Call no.: GN21.R63R68 1995

Russian Amazons.
Call no.: DK34.S3R87 2000

Sankofa / a film by Haile Gerima.
Call no.: PN1997.S365 1993

Science or sacrilege : Native Americans, archaeology, & the law.
Call no.: E98.M8S7 1996

Seeing anthropology : cultural anthropology through film / Karl G. Heider [text in stacks].
Call no.: GN347.H46 2001

Seeking the spirit : Plains Indians in Russia / Documentary Educational Resources ; Warrior Women Inc. ; director, Liucija Baskauskas.
Call no.: E59.I53S445 2005

La Selva Lacandona : [los bosques tropicales de nuestro país ya han desaparecido : la Lacandona se niega a hacerlo].
Call no.: F1256.S45 2000

Shackles of tradition / written and presented by Bruce Dakowski [in part about Franz Boas].
Call no.: GN21.B56S5

The shadow catcher : Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian / a film by T.C. McLuhan.
Call no.: TR849.C87S533 1993

Signs don't speak / produced by Centro de Trabalho Indigenista ; directed by Dominique Gallois, Vincent Carelli.
Call no.: F2460.1.O9S546 2007

Shomotsi / Video in the Villages presents ; directed and photographed by Valdete Pinhanta Ashenika ; Video nas Aldeias.
Call no.: F3430.1.A83S566 2006

Spirit of Samba : black music of Brazil / Shinachie.
Call no.: ML3575.B73S75 1982

The spirit of TV / Centro de Trabalho Indigenista.
Call no.: F2469.O9S857 1990

Strange beliefs / written and presented by Bruce Dakowski [in part about E.E. Evans-Pritchard].
Call no.: GN21.E9S772 1990

Taafe fanga = Pouvoir de pagne.
Call no.: PN1997.T3213 1997

Tabu : a story of the south seas / director, F.W. Murnau ; screenplay, R.J. Flaherty, F.W. Murnau.
Call no.: PN1997.T33 2002 [DVD]

Takeover / Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; produced and directed by David and Judith MacDougall.
Call no.: GN667.A9T354 1979

Tem que ser curioso = One must be curious / realization, Centro de Trabalho Indigenista.
Call no.: F2520.1.A4T46 1996

Tempus de Baristas / a film by David MacDougall.
Call no.: DG945.S33T467 1997

Three horsemen / Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Call no.: GN667.Q4T574 1982

Three tales from Senegal.
Call no.: PN1997.T573 1994

Tilai / Idrissa Ouedraogo.
Call no.: PN1997.T541 1995

To find the Baruya story : an anthropologist at work with a New Guinea tribe / coproducer, Stephen Olsson [about Maurice Godelier].
Call no.: DU740.42.B37T62 1982

Transnational fiesta, 1992 / produced by Wilton Martinez and Paul H. Gelles ; directed, camera and editing by Wilton Martinez.
Call no.: E184.P47T736 1992

Trinkets & beads / director, Christopher Walker.
Call no.: F3722.1.H83T83 1996

The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea / a Granada Production ; anthropologist, Annette B. Weiner ; produced and directed by David Wason.
Call no.: GN671.N5T76 1991

Under the men's tree / produced by David MacDougall.
Call no.: DT433.245.J54U534 1973

UNM celebrates "Los Comanches en Nuevo Mexico" [University of New Mexico].
Call no.: E99.C85U65 2005"

Utu / directed by Geoff Murphy [about the Maori].
Call no.: PN1997.U88 2000

Video in the villages / production, Centro de Trabalho Indigenista ; realization, Project Video in the Villages ; edition, Tutu Nunes.
Call no.: PN1992.945.V544 1989

Video in the villages presents itself / produced by Video in the Villages, Video nas Aldeias ; realization, Mari Coreja, Vincent Carelli ; edition, Mari Correa.
Call no.: F2519.3.C65V53 2002

La vie sur terre = Life on earth / un film de Abderrahmane Sissako.
Call no.: DT551.4.D54 1999

Waiting for Uighurstan / by Sean R. Roberts.
Call no.: DS731.U4W35 1996

We are all neighbors, Bosnia / anthropologist, Tone Bringa.
Call no.: DR1313.W4 1993

We are not beggars / a video by Wen Jie-Qin.
Call no.: HQ792.C5W42 1997

Wedding camels : a Turkana marriage / produced and directed by David and Judith MacDougall.
Call no.: DT433.545T87W433 1976

Wend kuni = God's gift / un film de Gaston J.M. Kaboré.
Call no.: PN1997.W462 1982

Whale rider [about the Whangara Maori].
Call no.: PR9639.3.I5W48 2003

Who owns the past? / produced and directed by N.Jed Riffe [about American Indian remains].
Call no.: E98.M34W48 2000

A wife among wives / David and Judith MacDougall.
Call no.: DT433.545T87W544 1982

Wisconsin powwow ; Naamikaaged, dancer for the people.
Call no.: E99.C6W573 1996

Women of Kerala / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Call no.: HQ766.5.I5W664 1986

World according to basketry : an ethno-archaeological interpretation of basketry production in Egypt.
Call no.: DT62.B28W46 1999

Woubi cheri / un film de Philip Brooks & Laurent Bocahut.
Call no.: HQ76.2.C852A234 1998

Xavante initiation / Video in the Villages and the Norwegian Program for Indigenous Peoples ; realization, Centro de Trabalho Indigenista ; realization and photography, Bartolomeu Patira ... [et al.] ; edition, Estevao Nunes Tutu.
Call no.: F2520.1.A4X383 2001

Yoruba ritual : a companion video / by Margaret Thompson Drewal.
Call no.: DT515.45.Y67D75 1992

Zan boko / un film de Gaston J.M. Kaboré.
Call no.: HT148.W4Z36 1988