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The last singing Marsh Arab: among Iraq's Madan, canoes, reeds and songs of Mesopotamia
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Between the Tigris and the Euphrates, the Hammar Marshes have sheltered the Madan, Iraq's Marsh Arabs, for millennia. This short documentary follows one of the last traditional marsh singers: songs handed down by the elders, canoes poled through the reed-covered waterways, the great reed house (mudhif), and a life shifting between marsh and city. (Source: official NOWNESS description.)
- Territory
- Asia / Marais de Hammar, sud de l'Irak (Mésopotamie)
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Madan (Arabes des marais)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Court documentaire « آخر مغني » (Le dernier chanteur), publié par la chaîne officielle NOWNESS (2020) ; réalisateur non crédité dans la description YouTube
- Language and subtitles
- arabe (sous-titres anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BNXLFTTuQU
- Date added
- 07/09/2026
Original creator
NOWNESS : plateforme éditoriale internationale de courts films d'auteur (art, culture, société), qui publie ses films sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Naghol land diving: in Bunlap (Pentecost Island, Vanuatu), boys build the tower and take the leap
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In Bunlap village on Pentecost Island (Vanuatu), men of the Sa people prove their courage by leaping into the void, held only by vines tied to their ankles: the naghol, ancestor of bungee jumping. The film follows three boys dreaming of their first jump: gathering vines in the forest, collectively building the great wooden tower, village songs and dances, up to the jumps themselves. (Source: official SLICE / ZED description.)
- Territory
- Oceania / Île de Pentecôte (sud-est), Vanuatu
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Peuple sa, village de Bunlap
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Extrait de « Becoming a man in Melanesia », réal. Jérôme Ségur, prod. ZED pour France Télévisions — publié par la chaîne officielle SLICE (2022)
- Language and subtitles
- anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPnRl0sZFDg
- Date added
- 07/09/2026
Original creator
SLICE : chaîne YouTube officielle de documentaires (groupe ZED), qui publie des extraits et films complets de productions documentaires internationales. Le film d'origine est une production ZED / France Télévisions de Jérôme Ségur.
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Nomads of the Jungle (Malaya, 1948): bamboo camp, blowpipes and rafts of a Semang band
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A 1948 archival film following, through the eyes of Alune, the chief's son, a nomadic band in the Malayan jungle: moving camp, building bamboo and palm-leaf shelters, gathering wild yams, driving fish for the net, making blowpipes and poisoned darts, then building rafts to float down to the trading post. A rare document of Orang Asli daily life. (Source: official PeriscopeFilm description.)
- Territory
- Asia / Jungle de la péninsule malaise, Pahang (Malaisie)
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Orang Asli (groupe semang)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- « Nomads of the Jungle (Malaya) », série The Earth and Its Peoples, réal. Victor Jurgens, prod. Louis de Rochemont Associates (1948) — copie de la chaîne officielle PeriscopeFilm
- Language and subtitles
- anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48ecnyt01zw
- Date added
- 07/09/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film LLC : l'un des plus grands fonds d'archives historiques des États-Unis (films militaires, de transport et éducatifs), qui numérise et publie ses bobines sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Circle of the Sun: the Kainai (Blackfoot) of Alberta between ranch life and the Sun Dance (NFB, 1960)
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In 1960, filmmaker Colin Low (NFB) was invited to the great gathering of the Kainai, a nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy in southern Alberta. Concerned their traditions were fading, the elders allowed the Sun Dance — the circle of tipis, the ceremonies, the beaver and eagle stories — to be filmed for memory. The film also follows daily life on the reserve: ranching, cattle branding, rodeo and the first oil derricks, through the eyes of young Pete Standing Alone. A major NFB archival document.
- Territory
- North America / Réserve des Kainai (Blood Reserve), Stand Off, sud de l'Alberta, Canada
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Kainai (Blood), confédération des Pieds-Noirs (Blackfoot)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Colin Low / Office national du film du Canada (ONF/NFB), 1960
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OupTwCYDkDM
- Date added
- 06/09/2026
Original creator
Colin Low (1926-2016), cinéaste de l'Office national du film du Canada né en Alberta, a grandi près de la réserve des Kainai. « Circle of the Sun » (1960), tourné avec l'accord des aînés, est l'un des premiers films à documenter la Danse du Soleil ; il est diffusé par la chaîne YouTube officielle de l'ONF/NFB.
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Wodaabe, war by dancing: the geerewol, great ceremony of Niger's nomadic Fulani
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Every year in the Sahel of Niger, thousands of nomadic Wodaabe Fulani gather for the geerewol: for seven days, two rival lineages confront each other with song and dance as their only weapons, before parting in peace. Ethnomusicologist Sandrine Loncke's documentary (Paris 8 University/CNRS, Point du Jour) follows the preparations — yellow then red make-up, cowrie ornaments —, the yaake dances, the elders' councils, night songs around fires and the striking of camp. In French.
- Territory
- Africa / Azawagh, région de Tchintabaraden, Sahel, Niger
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Peuls wodaabe (Bororos)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Sandrine Loncke (réalisation) / Point du Jour (production) / SLICE Peuples (diffusion)
- Language and subtitles
- Français (paroles en fulfulde sous-titrées)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOIkR5mAo2E
- Date added
- 06/09/2026
Original creator
Sandrine Loncke est ethnomusicologue (Université Paris 8 / CNRS), spécialiste des musiques peules du Sahel. Son documentaire sur la geerewol des Wodaabe, produit par Point du Jour et primé au festival Jean Rouch, est diffusé par SLICE Peuples, chaîne YouTube officielle de distribution documentaire.
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Torres Strait, 1898: the first films ever made of a people (dari dances and fire-making)
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In 1898, Cambridge anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon brought a cinematograph to the Torres Strait and shot the first ethnographic footage in history. Three preserved short films show ceremonial dances performed with the dari headdress on Mer (Murray Island), then fire-making by friction. A founding document for cinema history and Torres Strait Islander memory. Public-domain copy from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
- Territory
- Oceania / Île de Mer (Murray Island), détroit de Torres, Queensland, Australie
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Insulaires du détroit de Torres (Meriam)
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Alfred Cort Haddon (expédition de Cambridge, 1898) / National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (cartons en anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6fcRdBW-Wg
- Date added
- 06/09/2026
Original creator
Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940), anthropologue de l'université de Cambridge, dirigea en 1898 l'expédition au détroit de Torres qui rapporta les premières images ethnographiques filmées au monde. Les bobines sont conservées par le National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (australianscreen) ; cette copie du domaine public est diffusée par la chaîne YouTube « Cinema in Public Domain ».
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Thailand, land of rice (1957): a rice-farming family, from the khlongs to the harvest (archival film)
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1957 Encyclopedia Britannica educational film preserved by the Thai Film Archive: after Bangkok's temples and floating markets, it follows a central-plain rice-farming family through the whole rice cycle — water-wheel irrigation, buffalo ploughing, transplanting, harvest, and boat transport to the mill and export port.
- Territory
- Asia / Plaine centrale du Chao Phraya, Thaïlande (Bangkok en ouverture)
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Thaïs (paysans riziculteurs de la plaine centrale)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Encyclopedia Britannica Films (1957) — conservé par les Archives nationales du film de Thaïlande (หอภาพยนตร์)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (notice bilingue thaï/anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8JKPVPBQSg
- Date added
- 05/09/2026
Original creator
Archives nationales du film de Thaïlande (Film Archive, organisme public) : institution chargée de la conservation du patrimoine cinématographique thaïlandais ; chaîne YouTube officielle.
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The Song of Ceylon (1934): Adam's Peak pilgrimage, village life and Kandyan dances
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Basil Wright's landmark 1934 documentary in four movements: the Buddhist pilgrimage to Adam's Peak, Sinhalese village life (house building, outrigger fishing, rice growing), 'the voices of commerce' (tea, copra, ships), and Kandyan drumming, dances and night ceremony.
- Territory
- Asia / Sri Lanka (ancien Ceylan) — pic d’Adam, villages, Kandy
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Cinghalais
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Basil Wright (réal.), John Grierson (prod.), GPO Film Unit / Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board, 1934 — fonds Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire ; textes anciens lus)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjNj8LkH5s
- Date added
- 05/09/2026
Original creator
Travel Film Archive : collection de films de voyage et d'ethnographie 1900-1970, mise en ligne sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle ; le film original est du GPO Film Unit britannique.
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Peru in the 1940s: the life of a Quechua farming family in the Andes (archival film)
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1940s documentary from the Huntley Film Archives (Film 18694) on the farming life of a Quechua family in the Peruvian Andes: ox-drawn ploughing, family meals, wool spinning and weaving, llama caravans, adobe villages and Andean markets, opening with Lima and Inca sites.
- Territory
- South America / Andes péruviennes, région de Cuzco (Pérou)
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Quechua
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Documentaire des années 1940 — fonds Huntley Film Archives (Film 18694)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d’époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtCINz_JSp0
- Date added
- 05/09/2026
Original creator
Huntley Film Archives : fonds britannique d'archives cinématographiques fondé dans les années 1980, spécialisé dans le film documentaire et amateur historique ; chaîne YouTube officielle du fonds.
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New Guinea in the 1940s: vine bridges, fire-making and highland life (archive film)
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1940s Movietone documentary (Travel Film Archive): rare ethnographic footage of the New Guinea Highlands — mourning customs, vine suspension bridges, fire-making by friction, salt exchanges during pre-war patrols — followed by Bulolo gold dredging, rubber, schooling, the Pacific war and reconstruction. Colonial-era commentary, to be contextualized.
- Territory
- Oceania / Hautes Terres de Nouvelle-Guinée (point indicatif : Mount Hagen), Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Papous des Hautes Terres
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Movietone (années 1940) / Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-jpXlW9QI
- Date added
- 04/09/2026
Original creator
Travel Film Archive : collection de films de voyage et d’actualités 1900-1970, numérisés et publiés sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle (chaîne déjà référencée sur le site). Film produit par Movietone (photographie Syd Wood), réf. TFA-3938.
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A boy’s life in Sarawak: longhouse, rubber trees and the Rajang River (1970 film)
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1970 film by Dutch filmmaker Michael Rogge along the Rajang River, Sarawak: an Iban boy’s daily life — canoe travel, longhouse living, mat and rattan weaving, tattooed elders, rice planting, rubber tapping and drying, and bartering rubber sheets at the river trading post.
- Territory
- Asia / Fleuve Rajang, région de Kapit, Sarawak, Malaisie (Bornéo)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Ibans (Dayaks de la mer)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Michael Rogge (film personnel, 1970)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3013xK7Nc
- Date added
- 04/09/2026
Original creator
Michael Rogge (1929-2024), cinéaste-archiviste néerlandais : plus de 1 150 films personnels tournés en Asie et dans le Pacifique depuis les années 1940, publiés sur sa chaîne YouTube (chaîne déjà référencée sur le site pour « Les plongeuses ama »).
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Zanzibar 1961: dhows, cloves and carved doors of the spice island (British Pathé archive)
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British Pathé newsreel shot in Zanzibar in 1961: dhows returning laden with spices, clove picking and the market, hammered silverwork, the carving of Stone Town’s famous doors, the Sultan’s palace and Mangapwani beach.
- Territory
- Africa / Zanzibar (Stone Town), Tanzanie
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Swahilis de Zanzibar
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé (actualités cinématographiques, 1961)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wJoNDr9ziM
- Date added
- 04/09/2026
Original creator
British Pathé, société d’actualités cinématographiques britannique (1896-1976) ; son fonds de 85 000 films, considéré comme l’une des plus importantes archives d’actualités au monde, est publié intégralement sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Yucatán 1962: Maya villages, tortillas, weaving and the sisal harvest (period film)
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This 1962 educational film follows the living descendants of the Maya in Yucatán: palm-roofed villages, well water, tortillas and cacao drink, village market, hat plaiting, pottery and weaving, then the full sisal (henequen) cycle from harvest to the port of Progreso. (PeriscopeFilm collection.)
- Territory
- Central America / Péninsule du Yucatán, Mexique (villages, Mérida, Progreso)
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Mayas yucatèques
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Film éducatif de Paul Louis Hoefler (image Willard C. Hahn), 1962 — fonds PeriscopeFilm
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io6hoDDG3BQ
- Date added
- 03/09/2026
Original creator
PeriscopeFilm : fonds d’archives privé qui numérise et met en ligne des films rares ou menacés (films éducatifs, industriels et militaires du XXe siècle).
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Samoa 1949: fale builders, copra, taro and the stone oven (archive film)
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Shot in 1949 by the NZ National Film Unit, this film shows Samoan daily life: basket weaving, copra making, church building led by a master builder carrying every plan in his head, the kava ceremony, taro and breadfruit crops, umu stone-oven cooking and the roof craftsmanship of fale builder guilds. (Archives New Zealand.)
- Territory
- Oceania / Samoa occidentales (Upolu, région d’Apia et villages)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Samoans
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- New Zealand National Film Unit, 1949 (réal. Stanhope Andrews) — fonds Archives New Zealand
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire), chants samoans
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_kUJQq_qgI
- Date added
- 03/09/2026
Original creator
Archives New Zealand : institution nationale d’archives de Nouvelle-Zélande, qui conserve et met en ligne notamment les films du National Film Unit.
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Breton in the village: Trégor elders passing on their language (1978 archive footage)
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In 1978, rural exodus had emptied the farms of Trégor, Brittany. Around the Lannion cultural centre, young volunteers helped elders with farm work in exchange for Breton lessons. Filmed in Plouzélambre, the report also meets writer Maria Prat and her Breton evening gatherings. (INA / TF1 archive.)
- Territory
- Europe / Plouzélambre et Lannion, Trégor, Bretagne, France
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Bretons (Trégorrois)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- TF1, émission « Télé troisième âge » (Jacqueline Tarta, 07/03/1978) — fonds INA
- Language and subtitles
- Français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k3ZJSMmPyk
- Date added
- 03/09/2026
Original creator
INA Officiel : chaîne YouTube de l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel, qui conserve et diffuse les archives de la radio et de la télévision françaises.
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Ka Ke Ki Ku: an Innu summer in La Romaine, from bark canoes to the residential-school departure (1960 film)
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1960 NFB film by Perrault and Bonnière: the Innu of Unamenshipu and Pakuashipi build some thirty birchbark canoes, fish and camp, hold the Assumption procession with the blessing of the canoes, before the children leave for residential school. Period commentary, outside gaze flagged.
- Territory
- North America / Unamen Shipu (La Romaine) et Pakuashipi, Côte-Nord, Québec, Canada
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Innus (Montagnais)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- ONF — Office national du film du Canada / Crawley Films (série « Au pays de Neufve-France »)
- Language and subtitles
- Commentaire en français ; innu-aimun à l’image
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxn780od_Ds
- Date added
- 02/09/2026
Original creator
L’Office national du film du Canada (ONF) est le producteur et distributeur public canadien, fondé en 1939. Sa chaîne YouTube officielle publie une grande partie de son fonds documentaire, dont la série « Au pays de Neufve-France » (1959-1960) de Pierre Perrault et René Bonnière, produite avec Crawley Films.
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K’iche’ Maya highlands around 1940: mountain markets, weaving and villages (period footage)
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Amateur film shot around 1940 in the Guatemalan highlands, preserved by Periscope Film: ruins of Utatlán, the Friday market of San Francisco El Alto, traditional dress and weaving, village fountains, down to the Rio Dulce. Source: the channel’s chaptered description.
- Territory
- Central America / Hautes terres du Guatemala (Utatlán, Zunil, San Francisco El Alto), puis Rio Dulce
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Mayas K’iche’ (et communautés mam voisines pour certains marchés)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Fonds Periscope Film (film amateur numérisé, cinéaste anonyme)
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet avec intertitres en anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Rne2cUVR8
- Date added
- 02/09/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film est un fonds d’archives américain qui sauvegarde et numérise des films d’époque (industriels, militaires, amateurs) depuis les années 2000. Sa chaîne YouTube officielle publie des milliers de films historiques restaurés, dont ce film de voyage au Guatemala tourné vers 1940.
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Greenland in the 1930s: kayaks, seal hunting and dog sleds (silent archive footage)
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Silent 1930s rushes from the British Pathé archive: Kalaallit hunters kayaking among the ice, seal hunting at the floe edge, dog sleds and wooden houses, a supply ship among the icebergs. Source: British Pathé shot list.
- Territory
- Arctic / Côte ouest du Groenland (lieu exact non précisé par la source)
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Kalaallit (Inuits du Groenland)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé (fonds d'archives, rushes « unissued »)
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (sans paroles)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BagB8arK0_w
- Date added
- 02/09/2026
Original creator
British Pathé est l'un des plus anciens fonds d'actualités filmées au monde (1910-1970). Sa chaîne YouTube officielle publie plus de 80 000 films historiques numérisés, dont des rushes non montés (« unissued ») comme celui-ci, tourné au Groenland dans les années 1930.
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Sherpa porters of the Himalaya: log bridges, villages and trails (colour archive footage, 1973)
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Silent 1973 British Pathé colour rushes: a line of Sherpa porters crossing log and cantilever bridges, stone villages with prayer wheels, expedition crates, yaks and pack goats on terraced mountain trails in Nepal.
- Territory
- Asia / Moyenne montagne népalaise (itinéraire non précisé par la source)
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Sherpas
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (sans commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqZWCq4xE08
- Date added
- 01/09/2026
Original creator
Maison d'archives d'actualités cinématographiques britanniques (1896-1976). British Pathé publie ses fonds numérisés sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Atoll People: the Tokelauans between lagoon, canoes and migration (1970 film)
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A 1970 NZ National Film Unit documentary on Fakaofo, Tokelau: the council of elders, felling the atoll's largest tree for a canoe, sewing new hull planks onto old, lagoon fishing, cyclones and the migration dilemma. Published by Archives New Zealand.
- Territory
- Oceania / Atoll de Fakaofo, Tokelau (Pacifique sud)
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Tokelauans (Polynésiens)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- National Film Unit (Nouvelle-Zélande) / Archives New Zealand
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (passages en tokelauan), sous-titres anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXwiyqwO-ag
- Date added
- 01/09/2026
Original creator
Archives New Zealand, archives nationales néo-zélandaises, publie sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle les films du National Film Unit (1941-1990).
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Kano, earthen city of the Hausa: caravans, walls and mud-plastering (archive footage, 1949)
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Silent 1949 British Pathé rushes from the old city of Kano, Nigeria: camel caravans entering the earthen walls, masons hand-plastering mud façades, market streets, groundnut pyramids and the Emir's court. A rare record of Sahelian earthen architecture.
- Territory
- Africa / Kano, nord du Nigéria (vieille ville)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Haoussa
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (sans commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4zok1NjNBU
- Date added
- 01/09/2026
Original creator
Maison d'archives d'actualités cinématographiques britanniques (1896-1976). British Pathé publie ses fonds numérisés sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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The Mapuche community in 1974: market, wool, rukas and kultrun (USACH archives)
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Colour rushes filmed in 1974 among Mapuche communities in southern Chile, held by the Heritage Archive of the University of Santiago (USACH) and meant for a documentary never completed: the vegetable market, wool spinning by the ruka, silver jewellery and textiles, the kultrun drum and trutruka horn, ox-carts, the coast and large community gatherings on horseback.
- Territory
- South America / Araucanie (région de Temuco), Chili — lieu exact non précisé par la source
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Mapuche
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Archivo Patrimonial USACH (rushes de 1974, documentaire inachevé)
- Language and subtitles
- Sans commentaire (rushes) — mapudungun / espagnol à l’image
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCz-c_kY_-Q
- Date added
- 31/08/2026
Original creator
L’Archivo Patrimonial de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) conserve et diffuse les fonds audiovisuels patrimoniaux de l’université. Ces rushes de 1974 sur les communautés mapuches devaient alimenter un documentaire qui n’a jamais été achevé. Réutilisation soumise à autorisation : archivopatrimonial@usach.cl.
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Kabylia 1959: villages, market and everyday gestures (INA archives)
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A 1959 French TV report (RTF, INA archives) on Kabylia and its hilltop villages around Tizi Ouzou: open-air market, goat herding, women fetching water, building a house in the traditional way, the village lookout, schoolgirls’ games and traditional dance. A period document, with a commentary that reflects its colonial time.
- Territory
- Africa / Tizi Ouzou et villages de Grande Kabylie, Algérie
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Kabyles (Berbères / Amazighs)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- RTF, « Voyage sans passeport » (1959) — fonds INA
- Language and subtitles
- Français (commentaire d’époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjPRPcHkxg
- Date added
- 31/08/2026
Original creator
Ina Voyages est une chaîne officielle de l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA), qui conserve et diffuse les archives de la radio-télévision française. Ce reportage provient de l’émission « Voyage sans passeport » diffusée le 22 août 1959.
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Ama divers of Hegura Island: free-diving harvest (1957 film)
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Around 1957, Dutch filmmaker Michael Rogge filmed Hegura Island off Wajima (Japan), where the ama — "women of the sea" — free-dive for abalone, shellfish and seaweed, a female diving tradition documented for over a thousand years. Diving dress, wooden tub-floats, the harvest and village life, ending with a Shinto purification.
- Territory
- Asia / Île de Hegura (Wajima, Ishikawa), Japon
- Skill
- Water
- Community
- Ama (femmes de la mer)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Michael Rogge (films personnels, années 1950)
- Language and subtitles
- Sans commentaire (film muet d’époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtPIRnBSyt8
- Date added
- 31/08/2026
Original creator
Michael Rogge (né en 1929), cinéaste néerlandais qui a vécu et filmé au Japon dans les années 1950 ; il numérise et publie lui-même ses films d’époque sur sa chaîne YouTube (plus de 1 000 clips). Images de source directe du documentariste.
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Raising the chum: a Nenets family sets up its reindeer-skin tent in the tundra
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Observational film with no commentary, shot in winter with a Nenets family, the last great reindeer herders of the Siberian North. After the reindeer-drawn sledge convoy arrives, every step of raising the chum is shown in order: laying the wooden floor and stove on the snow, lifting the poles up to the crown, hoisting the reindeer-skin covers, packing snow against the base to cut the wind. Life then settles in: family tea inside the tent, and a blizzard day spent splitting firewood and frozen meat with an axe (source: SLICE/ZED notes).
- Territory
- Arctic / Toundra du Grand Nord sibérien, district autonome de Iamalo-Nénétsie (Russie) — lieu exact non précisé
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Nenets (éleveurs de rennes nomades)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Production ZED (France), images Benoît Ségur et Philippe Pothon — diffusé par la chaîne officielle SLICE
- Language and subtitles
- Sans commentaire (échanges en nenets/russe non traduits)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGYonoVALUU
- Date added
- 30/08/2026
Original creator
SLICE : chaîne YouTube officielle diffusant des extraits de documentaires professionnels ; ZED : société de production documentaire française.
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Crofters: life of a Scottish Highlands community (1944 film)
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1944 documentary filmed in the crofting townships of north-west Sutherland (Sheigra, Polin, Oldshoremore). The film describes the crofting system: small family holdings won from the moor, fields by the sea, sheep on common grazing. It recalls the Clearances and the laws that later protected crofters, then shows the working year: gathering sheep from the hills, communal clipping where no hands stay idle, families cutting and turning peat, lobster fishing, sheep dipping and lamb sales (source: video transcript).
- Territory
- Europe / Côte nord-ouest du Sutherland, Highlands d'Écosse (Sheigra, Polin, Oldshoremore)
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Crofters gaéliques des Highlands (communauté gaélophone d'Écosse)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Documentaire britannique de 1944, réal. Ralph Keene — mis en ligne par Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque ; communauté gaélophone)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm6os4YN15k
- Date added
- 30/08/2026
Original creator
Travel Film Archive : collection d'archives de films de voyage et de documentaires tournés entre 1900 et 1970, chaîne YouTube officielle du fonds.
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Miracle on the Mesa: corn, pottery and waiting for rain among the Hopi (1954 film)
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1954 archival film shot on First Mesa and at Keams Canyon, Arizona. It follows a Hopi family through a summer of drought: deep planting of corn in desert sand, long hours of tending crops against wind, crows and worms, sheep herding, fetching water from springs, women's pottery made from mesa clay and piki bread baking. The film also shows rain dances and a meeting with the Hopi Agency about a water development plan (source: Periscope Film notes and video chapters).
- Territory
- North America / Première Mesa et Keams Canyon, réserve hopi, Arizona (États-Unis)
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Hopis
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- P. Lorillard Tobacco Company / réal. Alan Shilin, image Toge Fujihara (1954) — mis en ligne par Periscope Film
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hefOMd_k00Y
- Date added
- 30/08/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film : fonds d'archives américain qui restaure des films historiques 16/35 mm et les publie gratuitement sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Taiga Nomads: an Evenki family and their reindeer in Siberia (1992 film)
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First part of the Finnish documentary series “Taiga Nomads” (Jouko Aaltonen & Heimo Lappalainen, 1992), following three generations of the Evenki Armchemku family, nomadic reindeer herders and hunters east of the Yenisey in central Siberia: pitching the conical tent, pack reindeer, sled caravans, ice fishing and daily life through the seasons.
- Territory
- Asia / Évenkie, rive orientale du Ienisseï (kraï de Krasnoïarsk), Sibérie centrale, Russie
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Evenks (Évenks / Toungouses), famille Armchemku
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Jouko Aaltonen & Heimo Lappalainen (Finlande, 1992) — « Taiga Nomads I: Hundreds of Homes »
- Language and subtitles
- Evenk et russe, sous-titres anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDIC4pvgXqU
- Date added
- 29/08/2026
Original creator
Film de Jouko Aaltonen et Heimo Lappalainen (Finlande, 1992), référencé par la NAFA Film Collection ; également distribué par Documentary Educational Resources. Hébergé ici sur la chaîne YouTube « anth », non officielle.
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The Feast: sealing an alliance among the Yanomami (1968 footage)
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Official preview of the classic film “The Feast” (Timothy Asch & Napoleon Chagnon), shot in 1968 among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco, Venezuela. Body paint, invitation dances, chanted dialogues and exchanges of goods create and renew alliances between villages. A founding work of visual anthropology, distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.
- Territory
- South America / Haut-Orinoco, État d’Amazonas, Venezuela (village des Patanowä-teri)
- Skill
- Governance
- Community
- Yanomami (Yanomamö)
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Timothy Asch & Napoleon Chagnon (1970, images 1968) — distribué par Documentary Educational Resources
- Language and subtitles
- Narration en anglais, dialogues en yanomami
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWeZlq8q_xo
- Date added
- 29/08/2026
Original creator
Documentary Educational Resources (DER), fondé par John Marshall et Timothy Asch, distribue depuis 1968 des films ethnographiques de référence (même fonds que les films John Marshall déjà présents sur le site).
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Desert Bedouin: camp, black tents, bread and coffee (1930s colour film)
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Rare 1930s colour footage of Bedouin daily life, probably in Jordan or Arabia: a camel patrol, the caravan on the move, women pitching the black goat-hair tents and baking bread, men roasting and serving coffee. Source: official Huntley Film Archives channel (film no. 1093679).
- Territory
- Asia / Désert de Jordanie ou d’Arabie (lieu exact incertain)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Bédouins (tribus nomades chamelières)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Huntley Film Archives (fonds d’archives britannique, film n° 1093679)
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (musique d’accompagnement ajoutée)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKhfwcsforM
- Date added
- 29/08/2026
Original creator
Huntley Film Archives est un fonds d’archives britannique indépendant regroupant des dizaines de milliers de films documentaires tournés des années 1890 aux années 2020, mis en ligne à des fins éducatives.
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Totem poles of British Columbia: Haida villages and monumental art (1930s archive film)
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A 1930s archive film shot in British Columbia, including Haida Gwaii (then "Queen Charlotte Islands"). Coastal villages and their totem poles: portraits of villagers and an elderly carver, standing poles, older poles reclaimed by vegetation in abandoned villages, close-ups of carved figures and painted house fronts. A filmed record of Haida monumental art at a turning point. Huntley Film Archives, film no. 1087914.
- Territory
- North America / Haida Gwaii et côte nord-ouest de la Colombie-Britannique, Canada
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Haïda (et nations voisines de la côte nord-ouest)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Fonds Huntley Film Archives (Londres), film n° 1087914 — opérateur d'origine non précisé par le fonds
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (film d'archives des années 1930)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13Ub0NkWAo
- Date added
- 28/08/2026
Original creator
Huntley Film Archives est une cinémathèque britannique indépendante (Londres) conservant des dizaines de milliers de films documentaires, des années 1890 aux années 2020. Le fonds met ses films en ligne à des fins pédagogiques et gère les licences d'utilisation (film n° 1087914).
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The Mbuti of the Ituri forest: hunting, gathering and barter (1939 educational film)
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A 1939 Encyclopaedia Britannica Films production made with H.C. Raven (American Museum of Natural History) on the Mbuti people of the Ituri rainforest, Congo. Dome-shaped leaf shelters, poison arrows, pit traps, wild honey gathering, bark-cloth making, and the barter of ivory for iron and plantains with neighbouring villagers. Dated narration, but a precious record of skills and gestures.
- Territory
- Africa / Forêt de l'Ituri, République démocratique du Congo
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Mbuti (Bambuti)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Films avec H.C. Raven (American Museum of Natural History), 1939 — numérisation Periscope Film
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2NbFY1JdkQ
- Date added
- 28/08/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film est un fonds d'archives filmiques (Los Angeles) qui numérise et préserve des films historiques, industriels et éducatifs du XXe siècle. Le film original a été produit en 1939 par Encyclopaedia Britannica Films avec H.C. Raven de l'American Museum of Natural History.
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Once Our Way: the Yup'ik village of Tununak builds its qasgiq (1970s Yup'ik-made film)
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In the 1970s, Yup'ik filmmaker Andrew J. Chikoyak filmed his own community of Tununak, Alaska. Fearing that "once our way is fading", villagers build a traditional sod qasgiq (communal house) as a place where the young will learn the ways of the ancestors. Fish drying, sod-roof building, a shared feast and drum dances follow. Preserved by the Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
- Territory
- Arctic / Tununak, île Nelson, Alaska (États-Unis)
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Yup'ik
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Andrew J. Chikoyak (réalisateur yup'ik) — fonds Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks (AAF-11578)
- Language and subtitles
- Yup'ik et anglais (sous-titres anglais incrustés)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZmobTalnNI
- Date added
- 28/08/2026
Original creator
Les Alaska Film Archives (Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks) conservent et numérisent les films historiques de l'Alaska. Ce film 16 mm des années 1970 (collection Lower Kuskokwim School District) a été photographié, produit et réalisé par le cinéaste yup'ik Andrew J. Chikoyak, avec le soutien du National Endowment for the Arts, de l'Alaska State Council on the Arts et de l'Alaska Humanities Forum.
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Kené, knowledge of lines and forms: the art of Shipibo women (Costumbres, TV Perú, 2017)
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Documentary from Peru’s public television about kené, the graphic art of Shipibo-Konibo women in the Ucayali region. It follows the freehand drawing of the design, the building and polishing of clay jars, the gathering of dye barks, and learning from elder women. Kené has been recognised as cultural heritage of the Peruvian nation since 2008. From the series "Costumbres", broadcast 27 June 2017.
- Territory
- South America / Ucayali, Amazonie péruvienne (Pucallpa, Yarinacocha)
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Shipibo-Konibo
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- TV Perú (Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión del Perú), série « Costumbres »
- Language and subtitles
- Espagnol
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpKJtnNkA9A
- Date added
- 27/08/2026
Original creator
TV Perú est la chaîne de télévision publique péruvienne. « Costumbres » est son magazine documentaire consacré aux cultures et aux traditions des régions du pays.
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Nomades bouriates de Sibérie vers 1920
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Early twentieth-century archival photograph showing Buryat nomads crossing the frozen Irtysh River near Omsk, in western Siberia, with horses and loaded sleds. The Buryats, a people of Mongolian origin, practised nomadic pastoralism adapted to extreme winters. A black-and-white document preserved and distributed by the LuckyCaravan Pictures image bank (“The Archivist” collection).
- Territory
- Asia / Sibérie
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Bouriates
- Rights
- Commercial licence (paid source)
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Photo
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://luckycaravan.pictures/shop/archives/buryat-nomads-crossing-the-frozen-irtysh-river-in-omsk-russia-in-the-early-20th-century/
- Date added
- 27/08/2026
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The Aymara altiplano: living on the Bolivian high plain (1944 film)
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A 1944 documentary by American filmmaker Julien Bryan about the highlands of Bolivia and the descendants of the ancient Andean peoples who live on the “rooftop of the Western world”. The film shows the daily life of the Aymara of the altiplano, around La Paz and Lake Titicaca: high-altitude farming, llama herds, markets and food preparation. A rare filmed testimony of the region in the 1940s. Source: official description from The Travel Film Archive channel.
- Territory
- South America / Altiplano bolivien, région de La Paz et du lac Titicaca, Bolivie
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Aymara
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Julien Bryan (documentariste américain), 1944 — fonds The Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QS-3t0OXq0
- Date added
- 26/08/2026
Original creator
The Travel Film Archive : fonds d'archives regroupant films de voyage, éducatifs et documentaires tournés entre 1900 et 1970 ; chaîne YouTube officielle « travelfilmarchive ».
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Tahere Tikitiki: the making of a great Māori canoe (1974)
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By command of the Māori Queen, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, the men of Tūrangawaewae Marae (Ngāruawāhia) built a “waka taua”, a war canoe. Designed and carved under the supervision of elder and master carver Piri Poutapu, MBE, it took 18 months to complete. This film, the only one of its kind, follows the construction from the felling of the trees to the launching, through the seasons and the life of the marae. Source: official Archives New Zealand notice (YouTube description).
- Territory
- Oceania / Tūrangawaewae Marae, Ngāruawāhia, Waikato, Nouvelle-Zélande
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Māori (Waikato-Tainui)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- National Film Unit (Nouvelle-Zélande), 1974 — fonds Archives New Zealand
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGlJvzScog8
- Date added
- 26/08/2026
Original creator
Archives New Zealand : archives nationales néo-zélandaises, dépositaires des films du National Film Unit ; chaîne YouTube officielle « Archives New Zealand ».
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The transhumance of a shepherd in the Vercors (INA archives, 1971)
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Excerpt from an ORTF documentary broadcast on 22 September 1971 in the programme “Provinciales”, devoted to transhumance. Robert, a shepherd in the Vercors, expresses his attachment to his animals, which he finds more sincere and faithful than people, and describes the simple life he dreams of. A period testimony on Alpine pastoralism; transhumance is now inscribed on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list. Source: official INA notice (YouTube description).
- Territory
- Europe / Massif du Vercors, Alpes françaises, France
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Bergers du Vercors (communauté pastorale alpine)
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- ORTF, émission « Provinciales » (22/09/1971) — fonds INA
- Language and subtitles
- Français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epJre9moNbU
- Date added
- 26/08/2026
Original creator
INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel) : établissement public français dépositaire des archives de la radio et de la télévision françaises, chaîne YouTube officielle « INA Officiel ».
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Tehuantepec, Mexico, 1943: daily life of the Isthmus Zapotec
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A travelogue short filmed in 1943 in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico), in the heart of Zapotec country, narrated by actress Linda Darnell. The film shows the daily life of the community, where the « Tehuana » women hold a central place, notably in the markets and local economy, and are famous for their embroidered costumes and headdresses.
- Territory
- Central America / Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, isthme de Tehuantepec, État d’Oaxaca, Mexique
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Zapotèques de l’isthme (dont les femmes « Tehuanas »)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Court métrage de voyage de 1943, conservé et diffusé par The Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (narration de Linda Darnell), sans sous-titres
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVUiP0ZdO7Y
- Date added
- 25/08/2026
Original creator
The Travel Film Archive : fonds d’archives de films de voyage et d’actualités (1900-1970), chaîne YouTube officielle du fonds, déjà utilisée pour d’autres fiches du site (Pérou 1958).
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Aran Islands, Ireland, 1929: cattle loaded onto currachs for the Galway steamer
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Footage filmed in 1929 on the Aran Islands, off Galway, showing a striking island skill: cattle are led onto the beach, tied to a currach (traditional tarred-canvas boat) and towed swimming to the steamer bound for Galway. The clip also shows islanders on the Inisheer beach, the steamer crossing, and traditional music and dancing on Inishmore. The original silent black-and-white footage was colorized and sound was added by the restoration channel Glamourdaze.
- Territory
- Europe / Îles d’Aran (Inisheer et Inishmore), comté de Galway, Irlande
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Insulaires d’Aran (communauté gaélophone du Gaeltacht irlandais)
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Actualités filmées de 1929 (fonds d’origine non précisé) ; restauration par la chaîne Glamourdaze
- Language and subtitles
- Sans narration (film muet d’origine, sonorisé à la restauration)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmBbY1LQFeg
- Date added
- 25/08/2026
Original creator
Glamourdaze : chaîne spécialisée dans la restauration (colorisation, upscaling, sonorisation) de films d’archives des années 1900-1950.
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The Caribou Hunters: Cree and Ojibway of Northern Manitoba (1951 film)
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This 1951 archival film, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, follows Cree and Ojibway families of northern Manitoba in their semi-nomadic life shaped by the caribou migrations, their main source of food. The camera accompanies the hunters and their dog teams across forest and tundra, and also shows the trapping of smaller animals of the woods and streams.
- Territory
- North America / Nord du Manitoba, Canada (région de Brochet / lac Reindeer)
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Cris et Ojibwés / Saulteaux
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Office national du film du Canada (ONF/NFB), prod. Tom Daly, 1951
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (narration de John Drainie), sans sous-titres
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8O3j58KOoE
- Date added
- 25/08/2026
Original creator
Film produit par l'Office national du film du Canada (ONF/NFB, 1951). La chaîne YouTube qui l'héberge (« Wood Ridge ») est une chaîne tierce ; la version officielle du film est visible gratuitement sur nfb.ca.
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To Wake Up the Nakota Language
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"When you don't know your language or your culture, you don't know who you are," says Armand McArthur, 69, one of the last fluent Nakota speakers in the Pheasant Rump Nakota band of southern Saskatchewan. Directed by Louise BigEagle for the National Film Board of Canada, this short documentary follows him as he teaches the language to the children of his community, on Treaty 4 territory. The film shows what transmitting a language really involves: words, but also a relationship to land, to elders and to oneself. Indigenous languages in North America are among the most endangered in the world, and public health research shows their vitality is one of the strongest correlates of youth wellbeing in these communities.
- Territory
- North America / Bande Pheasant Rump Nakota, territoire du Traité no 4, sud de la Saskatchewan, Canada
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Nakotas (Assiniboines) — bande Pheasant Rump
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Office national du film du Canada — réalisation Louise BigEagle (2021)
- Language and subtitles
- français et nakota
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_EEP-Jv84
- Date added
- 24/08/2026
Original creator
L'Office national du film du Canada (ONF) est le producteur public de films documentaires et d'animation du Canada, fondé en 1939. Il porte depuis 2017 un plan d'action autochtone et diffuse gratuitement ses films sur onf.ca et sur sa chaîne officielle YouTube. Le film est réalisé par Louise BigEagle.
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The Hunting Equipment of the Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari (footage from 1951-1953)
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Filmed between 1951 and 1953 by ethnographic film pioneer John Marshall, this footage shows in detail every piece of the Ju/'hoan hunting kit and how each is made and used, from gathering raw materials to preparing poison arrows. An official excerpt from the Marshall collection, one of the largest film records ever devoted to an indigenous people.
- Territory
- Africa / Région de Nyae Nyae (Tsumkwe), désert du Kalahari, Namibie
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Ju/'hoansi (San, autrefois appelés « !Kung »)
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- John Marshall (tournage 1951-1953), montage Frank Galvin, dir. Lorna Marshall — fonds Documentary Educational Resources
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire ; à confirmer au visionnage) ; pas de sous-titres français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQJRw-LvxU8
- Date added
- 24/08/2026
Original creator
Documentary Educational Resources (DER), fondée en 1968 avec John Marshall, est le distributeur historique du cinéma ethnographique (films Marshall, Gardner, Asch). Organisation à but non lucratif, elle diffuse des extraits officiels sur sa chaîne YouTube (41 700 abonnés).
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Peru: The Quechua People of the Andes (educational film, 1958)
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This 1958 educational film documents Quechua life in the high Peruvian Andes around Cusco: Inca-inherited mountain farming (potatoes, maize, terraces), llama and alpaca herding, wool work, Andean markets and village life. A period record of Andean peasant economy, ten years before the great agrarian reforms.
- Territory
- South America / Andes péruviennes, région de Cusco, Pérou
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Quechuas (descendants des Incas)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Film éducatif américain de 1958 — fonds The Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire) ; doublage automatique français disponible sur YouTube
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY5wumCH_h8
- Date added
- 24/08/2026
Original creator
The Travel Film Archive rassemble et numérise des films de voyage et d'ethnographie tournés entre 1900 et 1970. Sa chaîne YouTube officielle (313 000 abonnés) diffuse ces archives ; les images sont licenciables via archivefarms.com. Chaîne déjà utilisée pour les fiches Aïnous et Lacandons.
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The Navajo (Diné): Weaving, Silverwork and Hogan Life (1939 film)
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Shot in 1939 for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, this documentary follows a young Navajo couple through daily life in the American Southwest: sheep herding, corn harvest, wool carding, spinning and rug weaving, silverwork, traditional dance, hogan building and a wedding ceremony. A precious period record of Navajo textile and silversmithing skills.
- Territory
- North America / Réserve navajo, région des Four Corners (Arizona / Nouveau-Mexique), États-Unis
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Navajos (Diné)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Films (1939) — fonds Periscope Film (film n° 47594)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque) ; pas de sous-titres français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBbvtAw4l9M
- Date added
- 24/08/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film LLC collecte, numérise et préserve des films d'archives rares sur pellicule 35, 16 et 8 mm. C'est l'une des plus grandes collections indépendantes de films historiques des États-Unis, diffusée sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle (900 000 abonnés).
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Desert Nomads of Southern Morocco: Camps, Caravan and Couscous (archive film, 1949)
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This 1949 documentary, photographed by Richard Leacock, follows a family of pastoral nomads on the Saharan fringes of southern Morocco: milking camels, fetching water, grinding barley, making couscous and stone-baked bread, striking the camel-hair tents and moving the caravan. It also shows Koranic schooling in the tent, an oasis stop, irrigation timed by a water clock, and the date harvest.
- Territory
- Africa / Sud marocain, marges sahariennes près de l’Atlas, Maroc
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Tribus nomades pastorales du Sud marocain
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Louis de Rochemont Associates (1949), réal. John Ferno, image Richard Leacock — fonds Periscope Film (film n° 61664)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZzsat-ft1A
- Date added
- 23/08/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film restaure et diffuse gratuitement des films d’archives depuis plus de dix ans (chaîne officielle, fonds déjà utilisé sur le site). Film original : Louis de Rochemont Associates, réalisé par John Ferno et filmé par Richard Leacock, futur pionnier du cinéma direct.
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A New Day in Samoa: Chiefly Councils and Village Life (archive film, 1959)
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Shot in 1959 by the New Zealand National Film Unit, this archive film shows a day in the villages of Western Samoa on the eve of independence: morning scenes, the traditional council of matai (chiefs), children at school, women roofing a house, exports of copra, cocoa and bananas, and a ceremonial gathering at Mulinu’u. Western Samoa was the first UN Trust Territory to achieve internal self-government, before independence in 1962.
- Territory
- Oceania / Samoa occidentales (Apia / Mulinu’u), Samoa
- Skill
- Governance
- Community
- Samoans
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- National Film Unit (Nouvelle-Zélande) — fonds Archives New Zealand
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7xdpBm7h7k
- Date added
- 23/08/2026
Original creator
Archives New Zealand, institution nationale d’archives de Nouvelle-Zélande, conserve et diffuse les films du National Film Unit (1941-1990), l’unité cinématographique de l’État néo-zélandais. Chaîne officielle déjà utilisée pour la fiche māori de 1945.
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Los Urus: Living on the Totora Reeds of Lake Titicaca (Jorge Ruiz, 1951)
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Considered the first ethnographic film shot in Latin America, "Los Urus" documents the daily life of the Uru people of Lake Titicaca: fishing, bird hunting, and the building of totora-reed boats and dwellings. Jorge Ruiz filmed the last speakers of the Uru language, heirs of one of the oldest cultures of the Andes. The Smithsonian honored Ruiz with the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal (2006) for his pioneering visual anthropology.
- Territory
- South America / Lac Titicaca (secteur du río Desaguadero), Bolivie
- Skill
- Water
- Community
- Uru (Urus)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Jorge Ruiz (Bolivie) — chaîne « Jorge Ruiz – Latin American Classic Films »
- Language and subtitles
- Espagnol (commentaire, à confirmer au visionnage)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vderifBEbbs
- Date added
- 23/08/2026
Original creator
Jorge Ruiz (1924-2012), documentariste bolivien, pionnier de l'anthropologie visuelle en Amérique latine, médaille James Smithson du Bicentenaire (Smithsonian, 2006). Chaîne YouTube dédiée à la diffusion de son œuvre (vraisemblablement tenue par ses ayants droit).
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Éric Julien: what the Kogi of the Sierra Nevada have to tell us (Sismique interview, 2024)
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French geographer Éric Julien, saved by the Kogi after a pulmonary oedema at 4,400 m, draws on thirty years alongside this people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: territory understood as a living body, learning through experience, rites of passage, and a way of deciding in which the absence of women disqualifies the decision itself. Important caveat: this is relayed testimony — a Westerner speaking about the Kogi, not the Kogi speaking for themselves.
- Territory
- South America / Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombie
- Skill
- Governance
- Community
- Kogi (Kágaba)
- Video nature
- Interview
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Sismique
- Language and subtitles
- Français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4fNT5u7Fg8
- Date added
- 22/08/2026
Original creator
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Rabinal Achí: the Maya Achi dance drama of Guatemala (UNESCO film)
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A fifteenth-century Maya dynastic drama, the Rabinal Achí is one of the rare living testimonies of pre-Hispanic theatrical traditions. Performed every year in Rabinal (Baja Verapaz, Guatemala) during the feast of Saint Paul, it recounts in four acts the conflict between two princes, the Rabinal Achí and the K'iche Achí, through masked dances, music and narration in the Achi language. Mask and role bearers pass the tradition from generation to generation, with a ritual dimension linked to the ancestors. The Rabinal Achí was proclaimed a masterpiece (2005) and inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2008). Source: official UNESCO description.
- Territory
- Central America / Rabinal, Baja Verapaz (Guatemala)
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Maya achi
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- UNESCO (patrimoine culturel immatériel), chaîne officielle UNESCO en français
- Language and subtitles
- Français (narration)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA0B9hECKtY
- Date added
- 22/08/2026
Original creator
Chaîne officielle de l'UNESCO en français. L'UNESCO documente les éléments inscrits sur les listes du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité par des films courts validés avec les communautés et les États parties. Le Rabinal Achí a été inscrit sur la Liste représentative en 2008 (proclamé chef-d'œuvre en 2005).
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The Wayuu palabrero: settling disputes through the word (Colombian TV archives)
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The Wayuu normative system is the set of principles, procedures and rites that govern the social and spiritual conduct of the community of La Guajira (Colombia). It operates through the institution of the pütchipü'üi, the "palabrero": a mediator who resolves conflicts between matrilineal clans through the word and compensation, without violence. UNESCO inscribed this system on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010. Clip from the documentary series "La Guajira del Palabrero" by Doménico Restrepo Gómez, preserved by Señal Memoria, the archives of Colombian public broadcasting (RTVC).
- Territory
- South America / Péninsule de La Guajira (Colombie)
- Skill
- Governance
- Community
- Wayuu
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Série « La Guajira del Palabrero » (Doménico Restrepo Gómez) — fonds Señal Memoria / RTVC (code catalogue DV-263410)
- Language and subtitles
- Espagnol
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNe9zkXnSuo
- Date added
- 22/08/2026
Original creator
Señal Memoria est le fonds d'archives audiovisuelles de RTVC, la radiotélévision publique colombienne. Sa chaîne officielle diffuse des extraits documentés du patrimoine télévisuel et radiophonique de la Colombie. Le clip est tiré de la série « La Guajira del Palabrero » de Doménico Restrepo Gómez, producteur né à Maicao (La Guajira), auteur de « Letras de mujer wayuu » (2009) et de la série « Akumaja » (2011).
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The Toda of the Nilgiri Hills: sacred buffaloes and pastoral life (Doordarshan archives)
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The Toda are a small pastoral community of the isolated Nilgiri plateau (Tamil Nadu, South India), of Dravidian language, whose culture is thought to go back to the 3rd century BC. Their traditional economy is based on water-buffalo herding: dairy products, with cereals, form the core of their diet, and the dairy plays both an economic and a ritual role. This documentary from the “Tribes of India” series (Doordarshan public television archives) shows the typical hamlet dwellings (mund), the care of the herd and daily life. Source: official Prasar Bharati Archives description.
- Territory
- Asia / Plateau des Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu (Inde du Sud)
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Toda
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Doordarshan (télévision publique indienne), série « Tribes of India » — mise en ligne par Prasar Bharati Archives
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (narration)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Yo-LmRfJQ
- Date added
- 22/08/2026
Original creator
Prasar Bharati Archives est la chaîne officielle des archives de l'audiovisuel public indien (Prasar Bharati : Doordarshan et All India Radio). Elle conserve et diffuse les émissions patrimoniales de la télévision indienne, dont la série documentaire « Tribes of India » consacrée aux peuples autochtones de l'Inde.
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The Maasai and the Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano: water for the herds (archive, 1967)
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Archive news report filmed in 1967 around the Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano — the Maasai « Mountain of God » — after an eruption. Aerial views of the volcano and the northern Tanzanian plains, Maasai herders with their sheep and cattle, grazing lands destroyed by the eruption. Cattle drink from water drums carried by donkey from a source over 150 km away.
- Territory
- Africa / Ol Doinyo Lengaï, nord de la Tanzanie
- Skill
- Water
- Community
- Maasaï
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé (reportage d’actualités, FILM ID 3192.08, 1967)
- Language and subtitles
- Muet / son non vérifié (négatif original Pathé) — à confirmer au visionnage
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-u8SHt-p4s
- Date added
- 18/08/2026
Original creator
British Pathé, l’une des plus anciennes maisons d’actualités filmées (1896-1976), a mis en ligne ses 85 000 films sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle. Fonds de référence pour les images d’archives du XXe siècle.
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Lhasa 1936-1940: the Gould mission films of Tibet (BFI collection)
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Extract from the films shot by Sir Basil Gould’s British mission during two stays in Lhasa, in 1936 and 1940 — the year of the enthronement ceremony of the 14th Dalai Lama, then four years old. The BFI describes these reels as one of the most important film collections of pre-1950 Tibet. Daily life, official ceremonies, and a sequence of Tibetan women playing darts.
- Territory
- Asia / Lhassa, Tibet
- Skill
- Governance
- Community
- Tibétains
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- BFI National Archive — films de Sir Basil Gould, caméraman Frederick Spencer Chapman (extrait lié au documentaire BBC/BFI « The Lost World of Tibet », 2008)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (montage BFI ; sous-titres automatiques disponibles)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xswu4SHixA
- Date added
- 18/08/2026
Original creator
Le BFI (British Film Institute) conserve l’une des plus grandes archives cinématographiques au monde. Sa chaîne YouTube officielle publie des extraits restaurés de son fonds national, dont les films du Tibet d’avant 1950.
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Ulaanbaatar and life in the ger: Mongolia in 1968 (British Pathé archives)
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Archival rushes filmed in 1968 in Ulaanbaatar. Ger districts with fenced yards, Buddhist temples, a folk dance at the National Theatre, and the interior of a ger where a woman in traditional dress cooks on the central stove. A rare record of the ger as a living habitat in the heart of the capital.
- Territory
- Asia / Oulan-Bator, Mongolie
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Mongols (Khalkha)
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé (fonds d’archives, matériel non monté « Mongolia Today », 1968)
- Language and subtitles
- Muet / sans commentaire monté (rushes) — à confirmer au visionnage
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFgEExJg-Kw
- Date added
- 18/08/2026
Original creator
British Pathé, l’une des plus anciennes maisons d’actualités filmées (1896-1976), a mis en ligne ses 85 000 films sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle. Fonds de référence pour les images d’archives du XXe siècle.
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Chukchi reindeer herders of Chukotka (1957)
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A 1957 Soviet newsreel sequence, preserved by British Pathé, showing Chukchi reindeer herders in a remote coastal area of Chukotka, in the Russian Far East. It shows the rocky, ice-strewn coast, a large reindeer herd, and two herders inspecting and treating the animals. Reindeer herding has been central to Chukchi life for centuries: food, clothing and transport.
- Territory
- Arctic / Côte de la Tchoukotka, Extrême-Orient russe
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Tchouktches
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé (rushes d'actualités soviétiques, FILM ID 2566.16)
- Language and subtitles
- Quasi muet (son au début seulement)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij39B_UTpsY
- Date added
- 12/08/2026
Original creator
British Pathé est l'une des plus anciennes maisons d'actualités filmées au monde (1896-1978) ; ses 85 000 films numérisés constituent une archive de référence sur le XXe siècle.
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Canoes and island villages of Madang: the New Guinea coast in the 1930s
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An early-1930s home movie documenting a visit to a small island off Madang, on the north-east coast of New Guinea. It shows the islanders, their villages and above all their boats: canoes and traditional sailing craft that linked the islands. Around 3:35, unidentified traditional sailboats appear, possibly Massim canoes. A rare record of Melanesian maritime life before World War II.
- Territory
- Oceania / Île au large de Madang, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Peuples côtiers et insulaires de la province de Madang
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Periscope Film LLC (film n° 31460, film amateur d'époque)
- Language and subtitles
- Muet (film amateur d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoL1BbvdR2w
- Date added
- 12/08/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film LLC est une archive américaine indépendante qui restaure et diffuse des films historiques « orphelins » : documentaires, films industriels, actualités et films amateurs.
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The Banaue rice terraces: Ifugao country in the 1950s
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Archive footage from the 1950s showing the Banaue rice terraces in the central Cordillera of Luzon, Philippines. Carved into the mountainsides some two thousand years ago by the Ifugao people and irrigated by channels fed from highland forests, they are often called the eighth wonder of the world. A UNESCO World Heritage site since 1995.
- Territory
- Asia / Banaue, province d'Ifugao, Luçon, Philippines
- Skill
- Water
- Community
- Ifugao
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Huntley Film Archives (film n° 90270)
- Language and subtitles
- Sans dialogue (images d'archives)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOzf4B7N1aY
- Date added
- 12/08/2026
Original creator
Huntley Film Archives est une maison d'archives cinématographiques indépendante fondée à Londres, qui conserve et diffuse des films documentaires, industriels et amateurs depuis 1896.
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A Yagua village on the banks of the Amazon (Smithsonian archives, ca. 1974)
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Silent archival clip (ca. 1974) from the Smithsonian's Human Studies Film Archives showing a Yagua village along the Amazon River near Iquitos, Peru: riverside dwellings and daily life.
- Territory
- South America / Rive de l'Amazone, région d'Iquitos, Loreto, Pérou
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Yagua
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution (fonds Hal et Halla Linker)
- Language and subtitles
- muet (sans paroles)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxUd-i431Hw
- Date added
- 12/08/2026
Original creator
Archives du film en sciences humaines de la Smithsonian Institution ; images tournées par Hal et Halla Linker pour la série TV « Three Passports to Adventure » (années 1970).
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The People at Dipper: living from lake and forest among the Dene (NFB, 1966)
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A 1966 NFB documentary on the Chipewyan (Dene) community of Dipper Lake, northern Saskatchewan: fishing, hunting and a strong sense of community where new ways coexist with traditional life.
- Territory
- North America / Dipper Lake, rivière Churchill, nord de la Saskatchewan, Canada
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Dénés (Chipewyan / Dënesųłı̨né)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Office national du film du Canada (ONF/NFB)
- Language and subtitles
- anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uakv6JFJ-TQ
- Date added
- 12/08/2026
Original creator
Producteur public canadien fondé en 1939 ; réalisation Richard Gilbert et Jack Ofield (1966). Chaîne YouTube officielle du NFB.
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Jokkmokk winter market: the Sami yearly gathering (archive footage, 1950)
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Newsreel footage from February 1950 of the Jokkmokk winter market in Swedish Lapland, an annual Sami gathering held since 1605: reindeer sleds, trade, crafts and community life above the Arctic Circle.
- Territory
- Europe / Jokkmokk, Laponie suédoise (Norrbotten), Suède
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Sami
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Movietone (fonds AP Archive)
- Language and subtitles
- anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34–TOA4r10
- Date added
- 12/08/2026
Original creator
Actualités cinématographiques britanniques (1929-1979) ; fonds préservé et diffusé par AP Archive, chaîne YouTube officielle.
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The Andean Cosmovision of the Kallawaya: Itinerant Healers of Bolivia (UNESCO)
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This UNESCO film presents the Andean cosmovision of the Kallawaya, itinerant healers from the Bautista Saavedra region north of La Paz, Bolivia, whose roots go back to pre-Inca times. Their medicine rests on deep knowledge of Andean plant, animal and mineral pharmacopoeia and on ritual knowledge intimately linked to religious beliefs, passed down through generations. Inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008 (proclaimed a Masterpiece in 2003). (Sources: UNESCO, ich.unesco.org.)
- Territory
- South America / Province Bautista Saavedra (Charazani, Curva), nord de La Paz, Bolivie
- Skill
- Health
- Community
- Kallawaya
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- UNESCO — film de candidature pour la Liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel (élément proclamé chef-d'œuvre en 2003, inscrit en 2008) ; chaîne YouTube officielle UNESCO
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (version anglaise UNESCO ; doublages automatiques YouTube disponibles)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3SDWjYtQyc
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
L'UNESCO est l'agence des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture ; sa chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse notamment les films de candidature des éléments inscrits au patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité.
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The Wagenia Fishermen of the Congo River (Smithsonian archives, ca. 1975)
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This short archival clip (ca. 1975), preserved by the Smithsonian's Human Studies Film Archives, shows Wagenia fishing on the Congo River near Kisangani: huge wooden scaffolds anchored in the rocks of the rapids, with large conical baskets that trap fish in the current. This collective fishery, described by travellers as early as the 19th century, is passed down through generations within the clans. From “Congo River Adventure,” made for the travelogue series “Three Passports to Adventure” (the Linker family). (Source: Smithsonian HSFA.)
- Territory
- Africa / Chutes Wagenia (chutes Boyoma), fleuve Congo, près de Kisangani, République démocratique du Congo
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Wagenia (Wagenya / Bagenia), pêcheurs du fleuve Congo
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Extrait de « Congo River Adventure » (vers 1975), tourné pour la série télévisée de voyage « Three Passports to Adventure » de Hal, Halla et David Linker ; conservé et diffusé par les Human Studies Film Archives (Smithsonian Institution), chaîne YouTube officielle HSFAFilmClips
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM5c5NeFwOk
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
Les Human Studies Film Archives (HSFA), rattachées au Musée national d'histoire naturelle du Smithsonian, conservent plus de 8 millions de pieds de pellicule documentant les cultures du monde ; leur chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse des extraits de ces fonds historiques.
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The Living Stone: Inuit Carving and the Legend of the Sea Spirit (NFB, 1958)
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This Oscar-nominated NFB documentary (1958) shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture: releasing the image the artist sees imprisoned in the rough stone. Filmed among the Inuit of Kinngait (Cape Dorset), it centres on an old legend about carving a sea spirit to bring food to a hungry camp, weaving together daily survival — hunting, igloo building, camp life — art and respect for natural laws. Directed by John Feeney. (Sources: NFB.)
- Territory
- Arctic / Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, Canada (lieu de tournage d'après la notice ONF ; point indicatif)
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Inuits de Kinngait (Cape Dorset)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Office national du film du Canada (ONF / NFB), réalisation John Feeney, 1958 ; diffusé sur la chaîne YouTube officielle NFB (mise en ligne 28/01/2010)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire ; sous-titres YouTube non disponibles)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3R_7huyvy0
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
L'Office national du film du Canada (ONF / NFB) est le producteur public canadien de documentaires et d'animations, fondé en 1939. Ce film de 1958, réalisé par John Feeney, a été nommé à l'Oscar du meilleur court métrage documentaire en 1959.
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The Bandiagara Escarpment: Dogon Dwellings from the Sky (INA collection, 2007)
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These images from the INA collection (aerial rushes shot on 1 November 2007 for the film “Home”) fly over the Bandiagara Escarpment in Dogon country (Mali), a UNESCO World Heritage site. The cliff is dotted with caves where the Tellem, the Dogon's predecessors, built granaries, tombs and places of worship; today the Dogon use these structures as burial sites and build their villages, houses and millet granaries at the foot of the cliff. An exceptional document on a unique vertical habitat. (Source: INA.)
- Territory
- Africa / Falaise de Bandiagara, pays dogon, région de Mopti, Mali (plaine du Séno-Gondo)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Dogon (et Tellem, leurs prédécesseurs dans les grottes de la falaise)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Rushes du film « Home » (2007) conservés et diffusés par l'INA — chaîne YouTube officielle Ina Voyages
- Language and subtitles
- Rushes sans commentaire (images aériennes)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5mc2MdcYEg
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
L'Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) conserve et valorise les archives audiovisuelles françaises ; sa chaîne officielle Ina Voyages diffuse des documents et rushes de voyage issus de ses fonds.
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Māori Village of Whakarewarewa: Living with Geysers (archival film, 1945)
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This 1945 archival film, produced by New Zealand's National Film Unit and preserved by Archives New Zealand, shows how the Māori of Whakarewarewa village (Rotorua) use the geysers and boiling springs of their geothermal land: cooking food in hot pools and steam vents, washing and bathing in natural basins. The second part follows a song and dance group in traditional dress, introduced by the famous Guide Rangi (Rangitīaria Dennan). A filmed testimony of a unique adaptation to a volcanic environment. (Source: Archives New Zealand.)
- Territory
- Oceania / Village de Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, Île du Nord, Nouvelle-Zélande
- Skill
- Water
- Community
- Māori (iwi Te Arawa, hapū Tūhourangi / Ngāti Wāhiao)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- National Film Unit de Nouvelle-Zélande (1945) ; film conservé et diffusé par Archives New Zealand — chaîne YouTube officielle
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque) ; chants en māori
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tpT6YUOESc
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
Archives New Zealand conserve les archives du gouvernement néo-zélandais, dont les films du National Film Unit (1941-1989) ; sa chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse ces fonds numérisés.
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The Herero of Ngamiland: Cattle, Milk and Clan Life (Smithsonian archives, 1953)
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This excerpt from an ethnographic film shot in 1953 by anthropologist Gordon D. Gibson shows the daily life of the Herero (Ovaherero) of Ngamiland, Botswana: house building, herding, watering and milking cattle, making butter and buttermilk, wood carving, butchering and pounding flour. It also documents the role of clan priests, including the daily milk-tasting ritual, homage to ancestors, funerals, children's games, adornments, and songs and dances. (Source: Smithsonian HSFA.)
- Territory
- Africa / Ngamiland (région du Nord-Ouest, autour de Maun et du delta de l'Okavango), Botswana (repère indicatif : Maun)
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Herero (Ovaherero), peuple bantou pasteur
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Film ethnographique de l'anthropologue Gordon D. Gibson (Smithsonian), 1953 ; extrait diffusé par les Human Studies Film Archives — chaîne YouTube officielle HSFAFilmClips
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (film monté et commenté)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TckEnRndmXM
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
Les Human Studies Film Archives de la Smithsonian Institution conservent plus de 8 millions de pieds de films ethnographiques ; leur chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse des extraits documentés des collections.
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The Guna of the San Blas Islands: Island Villages, Sail and Molas (Smithsonian archives, 1958)
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This short 1958 archival clip, preserved at the Smithsonian's Human Studies Film Archives, shows Guna (Kuna) life in the San Blas archipelago (Guna Yala, Panama): villages on coral islands, a traditional sailing canoe, a freshwater well, and the molas — the appliqué textiles emblematic of Guna women's dress — and adornments. A filmed glimpse of Guna island living and material culture nearly 70 years ago. (Source: Smithsonian HSFA.)
- Territory
- Central America / Archipel de San Blas, comarque de Guna Yala, Panama (repère indicatif)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Guna (Kuna), peuple autochtone de Guna Yala
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Extrait du travelogue « Rainbow Lands of Central America » de Thayer Soule (1958), conservé aux Human Studies Film Archives de la Smithsonian Institution ; diffusé par la chaîne YouTube officielle HSFAFilmClips
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (extrait sans commentaire ; description en anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqRrdIBYHfQ
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
Les Human Studies Film Archives de la Smithsonian Institution conservent plus de 8 millions de pieds de films ethnographiques ; leur chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse des extraits documentés des collections.
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“Grass”: The Great Migration of Iran's Bakhtiari (archival film, 1925)
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“Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life” (1925) is one of the very first ethnographic documentaries in film history. It follows a Bakhtiari group, a nomadic Lur people of Persia (present-day Iran), on their seasonal migration: tens of thousands of people and their immense herds cross the Karun River on rafts of inflated skins, then climb barefoot over the snowy passes of Zard Kuh to reach summer pastures. Filmed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack with journalist Marguerite Harrison. (Sources: Periscope Film; Library of Congress.)
- Territory
- Asia / Monts Zagros (massif du Zard Kuh) et rivière Karun, Iran (ex-Perse) ; repère indicatif du parcours de migration
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Bakhtiari (peuple nomade lur d'Iran)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Merian C. Cooper et Ernest B. Schoedsack, avec Marguerite Harrison (1925, distribution Paramount) ; copie numérisée et diffusée par Periscope Film (chaîne YouTube officielle PeriscopeFilm)
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (intertitres en anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fVftguHwFc
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film est un fonds d'archives américain qui restaure et numérise des films institutionnels, éducatifs et documentaires du XXe siècle, diffusés sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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César's Bark Canoe: An Atikamekw Craft (NFB, 1971)
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This NFB documentary shot in 1971 shows, without commentary, César Newashish, 67, of the Atikamekw community of Manawan (Haute-Mauricie, Quebec), building a birchbark canoe the ancestral way: choosing the birch, lifting the bark, sewing it with spruce roots, shaping cedar ribs and gunwales, then gumming the seams. Only materials from the forest are used, from start to finish. A reference document on a vanishing craft, filmed gesture by gesture. (Source: NFB.)
- Territory
- North America / Réserve atikamekw de Manawan, Haute-Mauricie, Québec, Canada
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Atikamekw (nation Atikamekw Nehirowisiw)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Office national du film du Canada (ONF / NFB), réalisation Bernard Gosselin, 1971 ; diffusé sur la chaîne YouTube officielle de l'ONF
- Language and subtitles
- Film sans paroles (intertitres en atikamekw, français et anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRFCxxAKafc
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
L'Office national du film du Canada (ONF / NFB) est le producteur et distributeur public canadien de documentaires, fondé en 1939 ; sa chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse des documentaires patrimoniaux, dont plusieurs films majeurs sur les Premières Nations. Ce film de 1971 a été réalisé par Bernard Gosselin.
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Polynésie Française : le trésor des navigateurs
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Il y a 5000 ans, le Pacifique fut le lieu d'échanges et d'explorations de populations venues du sud est asiatique. Grâce à leurs pirogues munies de balanciers et de voiles pouvant remonter au "près du vent", ces hommes ont pu mener une exploration systématique des îles du Pacifique.
- Territory
- Oceania / polynésie
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Maori
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Creative Commons BY-NC-SA proposé
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- France TV
- Language and subtitles
- Francais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR0XsMxIj8g
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
Réalisateur de documentaires pendant prés de 30 ans, j’ai travaillé pour les grandes chaines de TV sur des grands documentaires d’aventure, de découverte ou animalier. Mon activité actuelle est plus tournée vers les nouveaux médias, et internet. Je travaille sur ces nouveaux supports dans les domaines institutionnel, artistique ou de la communication J’habite à proximité immédiate d’Avignon (84) et vous propose de réaliser vos projets de films « clés en main ». Conception (cahier des charges, scénario), réalisation (tournage, montage) et diffusion : internet HD, téléphonie mobile ou sur écran haute définition.
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Historia Patagonica de Luz y Piedra
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Documentaire tourné intégralement dans la province de Neuquén (Patagonie argentine), reconnu d'intérêt culturel par la Province. Il relie l'art rupestre millénaire — la grotte Epullán Grande, occupée depuis environ 10 000 ans, et le site de Colomichicó, 860 blocs gravés sur 16 hectares, sans équivalent en Amérique du Sud — aux constellations et aux récits des peuples Günün a Küna et Mapuche. Ces peintures sont de véritables archives : « ce sont nos livres », la mémoire collective inscrite dans la roche, qui se lit en miroir du ciel étoilé. Un appel à reconnaître ces cultures millénaires comme partie de l'Histoire — et à retrouver la mémoire en retournant regarder les étoiles.
- Territory
- South America / Argentine / patagonie
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Günün a Küna et Mapuche
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Creative Commons BY-NC-SA proposé
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Franco A. Ojeda y Octavio Yain Romero
- Who produced the video?
- Franco y Octavio
- Language and subtitles
- Espagnol (sous-titres automatiques ; pistes audio doublées automatiquement disponibles)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1md68KHv30
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
Octavio Yain Romero est professeur et licencié en Arts Audiovisuels (orientation Réalisation) de la Faculté des Arts de l'Université Nationale de La Plata (UNLP). C'est un réalisateur complet : scénariste, réalisateur, producteur, directeur de la photographie, cadreur et monteur. Il a participé en tant que monteur à La Chispa (2013). Sur Fidel Niño Valiente (2020), il a été assistant réalisateur et cadreur ; cette coproduction argentino-paraguayenne a eu sa préavant-première au Marché du Film de Cannes 2020, a remporté le prix « Leonardo Favio » au Festival International de Bolívar, a bénéficié du soutien de l'INCAA et est disponible sur Cine.ar. Sur Historia patagónica de luz y piedra (2023), il a assuré la coréalisation, la coproduction, la direction de la photographie, le scénario et la caméra. Le court métrage a remporté le 1er appel à projets de l'ENCINE, l'organisme cinématographique de Neuquén, pour son développement. Le film a reçu le Prix de la Critique « María Alejandra Rómoli » au Festival REC et a obtenu des mentions dans la Compétition Fédérale et celle des RAD Documentalistas (La Plata, 2024). Sur El Necio (2024), il a été assistant réalisateur, directeur de la photographie et cadreur, avec le soutien de l'INCAA. Il a également travaillé sur des projets de la Commission Provinciale pour la Mémoire : Caminos de Justicia (2019), El Viaje (2020) et Haroldo, un ejercicio de memoria (2022). Le long métrage Historia patagónica de luz y piedra, actuellement en développement, a remporté le Concours Fédéral Raymundo Gleyzer 2024/2025 (INCAA), pour la région Patagonie. Il poursuit actuellement un Doctorat en Arts à la Faculté des Arts de l'UNLP.
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Among the Lacandon of Chiapas: cotton, balché and tortillas (archive TV, 1960)
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A 1960 TV episode following explorer Don Rathlin during two weeks with the Lacandon, a Maya people of the Chiapas rainforest near the Usumacinta river: cotton growing and weaving, preparation of balché (a traditional fermented drink), tortilla making, river snails eaten as a delicacy, and traditional chants. Period 'adventure' framing to be put in context.
- Territory
- Central America / Forêt Lacandone, Chiapas / bassin du río Usumacinta, Mexique (point indicatif : Nahá)
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Lacandons (Hach Winik), descendants des Mayas
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Épisode « Savage Flame » de la série TV « True Adventure » (1960), produit par Gene McCabe et Gerald Pearce, présenté par Bill Burrud ; numérisé et diffusé par Periscope Film (chaîne YouTube officielle PeriscopeFilm)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire TV d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIGUB1nN8QU
- Date added
- 03/08/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film est un fonds d'archives américain qui restaure et numérise des films institutionnels, éducatifs et télévisés du XXe siècle, diffusés sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Aborigines of Arnhem Land: daily life and transmission (archive film, ca. 1950)
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An archive documentary shot around 1950 in Arnhem Land (northern Australia), following the daily life of an Aboriginal community with a focus on children: play by the water, learning by imitating elders, and a boy painting a hunter symbol. Period commentary to be put in its colonial context.
- Territory
- Oceania / Terre d'Arnhem, Territoire du Nord, Australie (lieu exact non précisé)
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Aborigènes d'Australie de la terre d'Arnhem (peuples Yolŋu)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Film documentaire vers 1950, présenté par Ray Forrest, diffusé par The Travel Film Archive (chaîne YouTube officielle travelfilmarchive)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ9tGC8fMVc
- Date added
- 03/08/2026
Original creator
The Travel Film Archive est un fonds d'archives regroupant des films de voyage et d'ethnographie tournés entre 1900 et les années 1970, numérisés et diffusés sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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The Ainu of Japan: dance, ceremony and tattoos (archive film, 1913)
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One of the earliest surviving films about the Ainu, the indigenous people of Hokkaidō, preserved by the BFI National Archive (1913). It shows traditional dances, a drinking ceremony and the moustache-like tattoo worn by married women on the upper lip. A rare filmed testimony, with a period gaze to be put in context.
- Territory
- Asia / Hokkaidō, Japon (lieu de tournage exact non précisé)
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Aïnous
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Film anonyme de 1913, conservé par le BFI National Archive (chaîne YouTube officielle du BFI)
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet de 1913 (notice et cartons en anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ey_C8hhH8
- Date added
- 03/08/2026
Original creator
Le BFI (British Film Institute) conserve l'une des plus grandes archives de films au monde ; sa chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse des trésors restaurés du BFI National Archive, dont ce film de 1913 sur les Aïnous.
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Tuareg of the Sahara: rites of passage, wedding and salt caravan (archive footage, 1948)
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This 1948 archive film shows scenes of Tuareg life in the Sahara: a young man's passage to adulthood, wedding festivities, and a camel caravan carrying salt across the desert. The salt caravan illustrates the Tuareg caravan economy, a trading system that linked the oases with Sahelian markets. A rare filmed document of the Tuareg nomadic way of life in the mid-20th century, distributed by The Travel Film Archive. The perspective is that of a period travel film, to be viewed in its colonial context.
- Territory
- Africa / Afrique / Sahara central (repère indicatif : région de Tamanrasset, Algérie ; lieu exact non précisé)
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Touaregs (Kel Tamasheq)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Film de voyage de 1948, diffusé par The Travel Film Archive (chaîne YouTube officielle travelfilmarchive)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire de film de voyage d’époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTbYYk56uQo
- Date added
- 02/08/2026
Original creator
The Travel Film Archive est un fonds d’archives regroupant des films de voyage et d’ethnographie tournés entre 1900 et les années 1970, numérisés et diffusés sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Reindeer herders in Lapland: rounding up the Sámi herd (archive footage, 1972)
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This British Pathé archive reel (1972) follows Sámi herders in Lapland setting out on skis, with their dogs, to round up their reindeer herd. It shows hundreds of reindeer running across the snowy tundra, the herd being driven into an enclosure, and the work around the animals. The footage also shows an elderly couple crafting objects from reindeer materials, illustrating the craftsmanship tied to herding. A filmed testimony of the Sámi herders' way of life in the early 1970s.
- Territory
- Europe / Europe / Laponie (nord de la Fennoscandie ; lieu exact non précisé par Pathé)
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Samis
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé, 1972 (chaîne YouTube officielle British Pathé)
- Language and subtitles
- Images d’archives Pathé ; commentaire en anglais le cas échéant
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhI6573DRiE
- Date added
- 02/08/2026
Original creator
British Pathé est l’un des plus grands fonds d’archives filmées au monde : environ 85 000 films tournés entre 1896 et 1984, issus des actualités cinématographiques Pathé britanniques, aujourd’hui intégralement disponibles sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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You Are on Indian Land: the Mohawks of Akwesasne defend their rights (NFB, 1969)
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This archival documentary from the National Film Board of Canada shows the 1969 protest by the Mohawks of Akwesasne, who blockaded the international bridge between Canada and the United States near Cornwall, Ontario. They were protesting customs duties imposed on their goods, invoking the right of free passage guaranteed by the Jay Treaty (1794). Directed by Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell, a Mohawk filmmaker, the film documents from the inside the confrontation with police and the community's collective organizing. It is one of the first Indigenous activist films, produced by the NFB's "Indian Film Crew".
- Territory
- North America / Amérique du Nord / Akwesasne, pont international de Cornwall (Ontario / Québec / État de New York)
- Skill
- Governance
- Community
- Mohawks (Kanien’kehá:ka) d’Akwesasne
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Office national du film du Canada (ONF / NFB), réalisation Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell, 1969
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (avec passages en mohawk)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpZwAuvxjQ
- Date added
- 02/08/2026
Original creator
L’Office national du film du Canada (ONF / NFB) est le producteur public canadien de documentaires, fondé en 1939. Ce film de 1969 a été réalisé par Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell, cinéaste mohawk d’Akwesasne (futur grand chef du Conseil mohawk d’Akwesasne), au sein de l’« Indian Film Crew », première équipe de cinéastes autochtones de l’ONF.
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How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean?
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This TED-Ed animation explains how, for thousands of years, Polynesian navigators made voyages of several thousand kilometres across the Pacific — an ocean covering more than 160 million km² — without any modern instruments. It describes how they read the Sun, the Moon, the stars, swells and currents to hold a course. It also evokes the communal building of canoes, bringing together navigators, builders and priests. Finally, it details advanced techniques such as using the Southern Cross to estimate south and observing clouds to spot land.
- Territory
- Oceania / Océan Pacifique, départ évoqué depuis Hawaï
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Polynésiens (navigateurs du Pacifique, dont Hawaïens)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- TED-Ed — leçon d’Alan Tamayose et Shantell De Silva (2017)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (sous-titres multilingues, dont français, via TED-Ed)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8bDCaPhOek
- Date added
- 01/08/2026
Original creator
TED-Ed est la branche éducative de TED : des leçons animées courtes, écrites par des enseignants et illustrées par des animateurs professionnels. Cette leçon (2017) a été écrite par Alan Tamayose et Shantell De Silva.
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The Balinese subak: managing water as a commons for a thousand years
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This documentary presents the subak, Bali's thousand-year-old cooperative system for managing water and irrigating rice fields. It shows how this democratic, sustainable mechanism enables local communities to manage the ecology of terraced rice fields across entire watersheds, making the Balinese among the most productive rice farmers in Indonesia. The film highlights that the system runs without fossil fuels or heavy machinery, and recalls its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2012. Finally, it warns of current threats: new farming practices and growing tourism pressure.
- Territory
- Asia / Bali, Indonésie (rizières en terrasses, dont le site de Jatiluwih)
- Skill
- Water
- Community
- Balinais
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Future of Food Journal (revue Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society), production Florian Doerr, tourné à Bali en 2014
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://vimeo.com/98035926
- Date added
- 01/08/2026
Original creator
Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society est une revue scientifique consacrée à l’alimentation et à l’agriculture durables. Ce film, produit par Florian Doerr, a été tourné à Bali (Indonésie) en 2014.
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How to Build an Igloo: the snow architecture of the Inuit
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This classic National Film Board of Canada short (1949) shows how to build an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada's Far North choose the site, cut and lay the snow blocks, then shape the entrance: the shelter is completed in an hour and a half. The narration explains how the warmth inside and the wind outside cement the blocks together. As the short winter day draws to a close, the two builders lay out their caribou skins inside, assured of a comfortable night in the heart of the Arctic cold.
- Territory
- Arctic / Grand Nord canadien (actuel Nunavut), Canada
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Inuit
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Office national du film du Canada (ONF / NFB), réalisation Douglas Wilkinson, 1949
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3pd-wxNEKQ
- Date added
- 01/08/2026
Original creator
L’Office national du film du Canada (ONF / NFB) est le producteur public canadien de documentaires et d’animations, fondé en 1939. Ce film de 1949 a été réalisé par Douglas Wilkinson dans le Grand Nord canadien.
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Selk'nam: the last warriors at the end of the world (documentary)
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A 14-minute documentary devoted to the Selk'nam (Ona) of Tierra del Fuego, covering their culture as a whole: origin and etymology of the name, territory and social organization in clans (haruwen), dwellings, beliefs and initiation rites including the Hain ceremony, clothing, hunter-gatherer diet and tools. The final chapters address the late 19th-century genocide in Tierra del Fuego, the arrival of missionaries and Julio Popper's expedition. In Spanish (Mente de Siglos channel, 2023).
- Territory
- South America / Terre de Feu, Patagonie (Chili / Argentine)
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Selk'nam (Ona)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Chaîne YouTube « Mente de Siglos » (vidéo externe, hébergée sur YouTube)
- Language and subtitles
- Espagnol (sous-titres automatiques ; pistes audio doublées automatiquement disponibles)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hHV9WIjMdc
- Date added
- 31/07/2026
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The forgotten genocide of the Selk'nam (Tierra del Fuego) — HALC in brief
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A short educational video recounting the genocide of the Selk'nam (also known as the Ona), a nomadic people of Tierra del Fuego, decimated by settler ranchers and gold prospectors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A documented reminder of a little-known chapter of Patagonian history, essential for memory and transmission. Sources cited: Histoire & Civilisations no. 87, Libération.
- Territory
- South America / Terre de Feu, Patagonie (Argentine / Chili)
- Skill
- Justice / repair
- Community
- Selk'nam (Ona)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Chaîne YouTube « HALC – Histoire à la carte » (vidéo externe, hébergée sur YouTube)
- Language and subtitles
- Français (pistes audio doublées automatiquement disponibles)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rslXJhEeCDY
- Date added
- 31/07/2026
Original creator
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Las cuevas de las manos
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A rock-art site attributed, according to local sources, to the Tehuelche people, in Argentine Patagonia.
- Territory
- South America / Argentine / patagonie
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Tehuelches
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Creative Commons BY-NC-SA propose
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon / ressource EWA
- Who produced the video?
- Source Vimeo
- Language and subtitles
- Francais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://vimeo.com/287922620
- Date added
- 05/07/2026
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The Mapuche, Chiuquillihuin near Junín de los Andes, Argentina
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A five-minute immersion in a Mapuche village, an Indigenous people of South America. Their school, their crafts, their hierarchy.
- Territory
- South America / Argentine / Junin de los Andes/Chiuquillihuin
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Mapuches
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Creative Commons BY-NC-SA propose
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon / ressource EWA
- Who produced the video?
- chris Nahon
- Language and subtitles
- Francais / espagnol
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQ8vJaZ-3Q
- Date added
- 05/07/2026
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