Research Guides: Anthropology and Sociology: Videos

Video Databases

Academic Video Online: Anthropology
Contains over 7500 films, including ethnographic documentaries and interviews of anthropologists. This channel covers every region of the world and features the work of some of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including previously unreleased raw footage, field notes and study guides.
Films on Demand: Anthropology
Films on Demand offers over 900 streaming videos on Anthropology topics.

Introduction to Physical Anthropology Series (Films on Demand) Introduction to Physical Anthropology is a five-part series rom Discovery Education.
Breaking the Wall of the Museum: How Anthropology Investigates the Cultural Heritage of the Future (Films on Demand) Today, cultural anthropologists like Sharon Macdonald are examining the reasons why some elements of culture are passed on to the future while other are erased from collective memory. Museums are societies’ official places for this process of "curating memory."
N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman (Alexander Street Video) This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties.