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Ancestors in the Attic
Got any secrets in your family tree, skeletons in ye olde ancestral closet? Were your ancestors sinner or saints, royals o....
Read MoreThe Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
Explores the story behind the discovery of an early primate fossil, Darwinius masillae, nicknamed Ida, in a shale quarry i....
Read MoreMeet the Ancestors
Meet the Ancestors aka Ancestors was a BBC Television documentary series that documented the archaeological excavation and....
Read MoreAlien Ancestors: The Gods of Man
Aliens in our ancient past is practically common knowledge. They came millennia ago, fought a great war between themselves....
Read MoreFood for the Ancestors: The Mexican Celebration of The Days of the Dead
Documentary that explores the festival known as the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), highlighting Mexican traditions ....
Read MoreThe Sleep of the Ancestors
It tries to understand the Shaman-Kham tradition with its current perspective by centralizing around the annual autumn wel....
Read MoreThe Spirit of the Ancestors
Three generations of chroniclers from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) go in search of their nation’s sacred pieces.....
Read MoreThe Ancestors
This film follows John Kitime, a Tanzanian musician now in his 60s, as he sets out on a mission to put together an all-sta....
Read MoreStories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited
Archaeologist Julian Richards returns to some of his most important digs to discover how science, conservation and new fin....
Read MoreWalking in the Footsteps of the Ancestors
Aotearoa - Maori for New Zealand Follow the journey of the "Walking in the Footsteps of the Ancestors" tour, as Indigenou....
Read MoreThe Homeless Ancestor
We cannot escape from bureaucracy in life as well as in death. Quickie promises his grandma to handle the forced removal o....
Read MoreThe Ancestors Came
This short film explores the life and work of prolific artist Faith Ringgold. By eschewing linear narrative and drawing co....
Read MoreHello Dear Ancestors
During the Han Dynasty, Zhen Jun is driven off a cliff in a struggle for leadership of his family. Saved from plummeting t....
Read MoreAncestors in the Americas, Part II: Chinese in the Frontier West
This film documents the large-scale migration of Chinese to California during the Gold Rush of the 1850s and the central r....
Read MoreThe Neanderthals: Tracking our Ancestors
Long before Homo sapiens populated the earth, the Neanderthals lived in Eurasia. Now, paleoanthropologists are using new a....
Read MoreTo Sing with the Ancestors
Ge Bu, a poet aspiring to write an epic poem; A-Ying, a blind singer who traverses the countryside; Beima Nui, a shaman wh....
Read MoreGreetings to the Ancestors
'Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid governme....
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