La muerte de Cuauhtemoc.
Una pareja de mayas lucha por su amor contra el hacendado.
La aparición de la virgen de Guadalupe
Relata la historia de este guerrero tlaxcalteca nacido en 1497, recordado por su valor en las guerras floridas y por el beneplácito que le rindió el mismo Moctezuma II.
Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride of beauty... pride of strength."
Documentary detailing the hardships of life among Alaskan Natives.
En una toldería se produce un homicidio y un joven es condenado a muerte por ello, pero su padre, el verdadero autor, asume su responsabilidad ante el comandante.
Documentary about the kolla people living in North Western Argentina.
Prestigiosa adaptación de una novela de Joseph Conrad sobre un aventurero desesperado que vive en una isla malaya, donde desarrolla una actividad criminal. Finalmente, será víctima de una auténtica cacería humana.
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.
On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island where he finds the stone, and then shows how he carves it in the manner of his grandfather, who taught him the craft.
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).
Mediometraje basado en un cuento de Julio Cortazar.