The title of this film translates literally as 'to put on a hori,' a hori being the Songhay term for ceremony of festival. Here it is used to refer...
In 1972, the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali celebrated the funeral of Anaï Dolo, head of the Bongo Masks Society, who died at the age of...
In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard,...
Two thousand years ago, it was a flourishing city in the middle of what is now a Syrian desert. At the crossroads of trade routes, Palmyra attracted...
The discovery of an ancient music score in the Louvre sets researchers on a mission to recreate the music as it was originally heard by the Greeks...
When a huge meteorite crashed into the earth 66 million years ago and caused the disappearance of the dinosaurs, some of the planet’s tiniest...
Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, has always been an enigma to generations of...
Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's...
"Tourou et Bitti", an eight minute documentary concerning a ritual in Niger, is yet another example of Rouch's excellence in creating documentaries...
At the dawn of the Christian era, Petra, capital of the rich kingdom of the Nabataeans, bordering the deserts of Arabia, Syria and the Negev, was...
How did men learn to count? How do they count? The empire of numbers is a very rhythmic graphic film that tells the great history of numbers, from...
Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger. A yenendi, a purification ceremony to obtain...
Une nouvelle ère voit le jour. Une équipe visite le lieu le plus risqué sur terre, une île sur laquelle vivent des...
Lorsque tous les enfants d’une même classe, à l’exception d’un, disparaissent mystérieusement la même...
Un banal transport de fonds vire au drame lorsque Russell et Travis, deux convoyeurs de fonds, tombent dans une embuscade tendue par des criminels...
Sur l'île accidentée de Berk, où Vikings et dragons se vouent une haine viscérale depuis des générations,...
Cela fait près de trente ans que le Virus de la Fureur s’est échappé d’un laboratoire d’armement biologique....
Anvers, 2003. Un gang de voleurs s'attaque à l'impénétrable Diamond Center. Qui se cache derrière l'un des plus grands...
Après la catastrophe, bien que les âmes de Nezha et d'Aobing aient été sauvées, leurs corps allaient être...
