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Al-Qatt Al-Asiri: the women's wall art of the Asir highlands (Saudi Arabia, UNESCO film)
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In the houses of Asir, in south-western Saudi Arabia, women paint the interior walls of the guest rooms with dazzling geometric motifs: Al-Qatt Al-Asiri. The UNESCO film (2017) shows the hand-ground natural pigments, the brushwork of lines and triangles, the old decorated houses, and today's transmission through courses, galleries and artists of both sexes (UNESCO Representative List, file 01261).
- Territory
- Asia / Province de l'Asir, sud-ouest de l'Arabie saoudite (Abha et villages)
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Communautés de l'Asir (sud-ouest saoudien)
- 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?
- UNESCO / Saudi Heritage Preservation Society — © 2016 Ahmad Alsheme
- Language and subtitles
- Arabe, sous-titres anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swLtZIftq74
- Date added
- 02/10/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l'UNESCO (badge vérifié). Film accompagnant l'inscription 2017 de l'Al-Qatt Al-Asiri sur la Liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel (dossier 01261, Arabie saoudite), produit avec la Saudi Heritage Preservation Society.
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The camel coaxing ritual: nomadic herders of the Gobi (Mongolia, UNESCO film)
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When a female camel rejects her newborn or must adopt an orphaned calf, Mongol herders of the Gobi perform a coaxing ritual: songs, gestures and the music of a fiddle or flute unite mother and calf. The UNESCO film (2015) shows nomadic life, the ritual's techniques and the herdswomen who pass it on from adolescence, as well as its fragility in the face of rural-urban migration (UNESCO Urgent Safeguarding List, file 01061).
- Territory
- Asia / Désert de Gobi, province d'Ömnögovi (Mongolie)
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Éleveurs nomades mongols du Gobi
- 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?
- UNESCO — images © Yu. Boldbaatar (2013)
- Language and subtitles
- Mongol, sous-titres anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHhseWLhKhY
- Date added
- 02/10/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l'UNESCO (badge vérifié). Film accompagnant l'inscription 2015 du rituel mongol d'apaisement des chamelles sur la Liste de sauvegarde urgente du patrimoine culturel immatériel (dossier 01061, Mongolie).
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Enkipaata, Eunoto, Olng'esherr: the three Maasai male rites of passage (Kenya, UNESCO film)
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Enkipaata, Eunoto and Olng'esherr are the three interrelated rites of passage that turn a Maasai boy into a moran (warrior), then a young elder, then a senior elder. The UNESCO film (2018) follows the ochre-painted novices, the Enkipaata dance, the manyatta built by the women, the shaving of the warriors' braids by their mothers at Eunoto and the meat-sharing of Olng'esherr, with elders, youth leaders and women explaining how knowledge passes between age sets (UNESCO Urgent Safeguarding List, file 01390).
- Territory
- Africa / Comté de Kajiado et sud du Kenya (terres maasaï)
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- 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?
- UNESCO / Department of Culture, Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage (Kenya)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais et maa, sous-titres anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOnB24xI7cM
- Date added
- 02/10/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l'UNESCO (badge vérifié). Films produits pour les candidatures au patrimoine culturel immatériel ; celui-ci accompagne l'inscription 2018 des trois rites de passage masculins maasaï sur la Liste de sauvegarde urgente (dossier 01390, Kenya).
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Hee Yaia Keti Oka: the knowledge of the jaguar shamans of Yuruparí (Vaupés, Colombia)
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On the Pirá Paraná river, in the Colombian Amazon, the jaguar shamans (hee yaia) of the Eastern Tukanoan groups hold the Hee Yaia Keti Oka, the body of Yuruparí ritual knowledge used to heal people and to “heal the world”: care of sacred sites, ecological calendar, maloca rituals, chants and dances. This nomination film (element inscribed in 2011 on the UNESCO Representative List) shows the maloca, the maps of the ancestral territory, the night ritual, the sacred falls of the river and the transmission to younger generations, today organised by the communities themselves.
- Territory
- South America / Rivière Pirá Paraná, département du Vaupés, Amazonie colombienne
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Groupes tukano orientaux du Pirá Paraná (Barasana, Macuna, Tatuyo, Bará…)
- 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?
- Fundación Gaia Amazonas (film de la candidature UNESCO 2011)
- Language and subtitles
- Espagnol (entretiens et commentaire), sous-titres anglais incrustés
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BRZU27t_UU
- Date added
- 01/10/2026
Original creator
Fundación Gaia Amazonas — ONG colombienne qui accompagne depuis 1990 les peuples autochtones du nord-ouest amazonien (Vaupés, Apaporis, Pirá Paraná) dans la défense de leurs territoires et de leurs savoirs. Productrice du film de la candidature « Hee Yaia Keti Oka » inscrite en 2011 sur la Liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'UNESCO (fiche ich.unesco.org/en/RL/00574).
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Kwagh-hir: the puppet and masquerade theatre of the Tiv people (Nigeria, UNESCO film)
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Kwagh-hir is the great night theatre of the Tiv people of Benue State, Nigeria. Born from family storytelling sessions, it combines large puppets, masquerades, poetry, music and dance on the village square, commenting on community life from contemporary satire to moral and health lessons. Skills are transmitted through apprenticeship within the troupes, which compete in festivals. Inscribed in 2019 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
- Territory
- Africa / Pays tiv, État de Benue (Makurdi), centre-est du Nigeria
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Tiv
- 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?
- Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation (Nigeria), images 2008-2011 — diffusé par la chaîne officielle UNESCO
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire), tiv (chants et scènes)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPQlFzjlZ4I
- Date added
- 01/10/2026
Original creator
UNESCO — chaîne YouTube officielle (badge vérifié) de l'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture. Film de la candidature du kwagh-hir préparé avec le ministère fédéral nigérian du Tourisme, de la Culture et de l'Orientation nationale (© 2008 et 2011 FMTC&NO), élément inscrit en 2019 sur la Liste représentative.
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The art of xòe: the circle dance of the Tai people of northwestern Vietnam (UNESCO film)
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Xòe is the collective circle dance of the Tai people of northwestern Viet Nam, performed at rituals, weddings and village festivals. This UNESCO nomination film (element inscribed in 2021 on the Representative List) follows the practice in the Mường Lò valley, from household rituals to festive circles of thousands of dancers, accompanied by gourd lutes, drums, cymbals and flutes. The dance is transmitted within families, dance troupes and schools.
- Territory
- Asia / Vallée de Mường Lò – Nghĩa Lộ, province de Yên Bái, Nord-Ouest du Vietnam
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Thaïs (Tai) du Nord-Ouest du Vietnam
- 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?
- Viet Nam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies (VICAS), 2019 — diffusé par la chaîne officielle UNESCO
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire), chants en thaï
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxJAkGGoAig
- Date added
- 01/10/2026
Original creator
UNESCO — chaîne YouTube officielle (badge vérifié) de l'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture. Film produit par le VICAS (Institut national vietnamien d'études sur la culture et les arts, vicas.org.vn) pour la candidature du xòe, inscrite en 2021 sur la Liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel.
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The Argan Tree: Practices and Know-How of the Amazigh Women of the Arganeraie (UNESCO film)
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In the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve of south-west Morocco, rural Amazigh women hold the full range of know-how linked to the argan tree, inscribed by UNESCO in 2014. The film documents the whole chain: harvesting the fruit, cracking the nuts on stone, sorting the kernels, roasting, grinding on a stone mill, kneading and extracting the oil, up to the women's cooperatives that live from it today. Passed on through imitation from childhood, these skills feed cooking, medicine and cosmetics, and the oil is given as a wedding gift.
- Territory
- Africa / Réserve de biosphère de l'Arganeraie, Sud-Ouest marocain (entre Agadir et Essaouira), secteur de Tamanar
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Communautés rurales amazighes (berbères) de l'Arganeraie
- 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?
- Ministère de la Culture du Maroc (Direction du patrimoine culturel) — film du dossier de candidature UNESCO 2014
- Language and subtitles
- Arabe et tamazight, sous-titres français incrustés
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjlzRi2rnpQ
- Date added
- 01/10/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l'UNESCO, qui publie les films des dossiers de candidature au patrimoine culturel immatériel. Film produit par le Ministère de la Culture du Maroc (Direction du patrimoine culturel) pour la candidature de 2014.
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The Ritual Ceremony of the Voladores: the Totonac Flying Men (UNESCO film)
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The Voladores ceremony is a fertility dance of the Totonac people of Veracruz, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009. The film follows the complete ritual: the founding myth, the forgiveness asked of the mountain god before felling the chosen tree, the raising of the pole on the village square, and the flight itself, with four dancers descending from the top on ropes while the Caporal plays flute and drum for the sun and the four directions.
- Territory
- Central America / Papantla, État de Veracruz, Mexique (région totonaque)
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Totonaques (cérémonie aussi pratiquée par d'autres peuples du Mexique et d'Amérique 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?
- Film du dossier de candidature UNESCO 2009 (avec les institutions de l'État de Veracruz) — chaîne YouTube officielle UNESCO
- Language and subtitles
- Totonaque et espagnol, sous-titres anglais incrustés
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DINkrYj3GpY
- Date added
- 01/10/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l'UNESCO, qui publie les films des dossiers de candidature au patrimoine culturel immatériel. Film de la candidature mexicaine de 2009 (partenaires de l'État de Veracruz au générique).
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Haida Carver: Robert Davidson and the Argillite of Haida Gwaii (1964)
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Shot in 1964 by the National Film Board of Canada, this short film follows Robert Davidson, a young Haida carver who would become one of the great Northwest Coast artists. He gathers argillite, a black stone only the Haida may carve, travels past the old villages with their standing totem poles, and learns the rules of Haida art from his grandfather before carving miniature totems and ornate dishes.
- Territory
- North America / Haida Gwaii (îles de la Reine-Charlotte), Colombie-Britannique, Canada — village de Masset
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Haïdas
- 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 Richard Gilbert, 1964
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj1Fl2Sii10
- Date added
- 01/10/2026
Original creator
L'Office national du film du Canada (ONF/NFB) est le producteur et distributeur public du Canada, créé en 1939 ; sa chaîne YouTube officielle (badge vérifié) met en ligne son fonds documentaire. « Haida Carver » (réal. Richard Gilbert, 1964) fait partie de ce fonds.
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Georgian polyphonic singing (UNESCO film)
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Georgian polyphonic singing is a secular three-voice tradition, with Svaneti preserving its most complex forms. Official UNESCO film for the practice proclaimed a masterpiece in 2001 and inscribed on the Representative List in 2008 (file 00008).
- Territory
- Europe / Géorgie (Caucase) ; la polyphonie complexe de Svanétie est citée dans le film
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Géorgiens (traditions régionales : Svanétie, Kakhétie, Gourie…)
- 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 la Liste représentative, proclamation 2001, inscription 2008)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire) ; chants en géorgien
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg8xrdbnH8E
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
Chaîne officielle de l’UNESCO. Films produits pour les dossiers d’inscription au patrimoine culturel immatériel ; celui-ci accompagne l’inscription du chant polyphonique géorgien (proclamation 2001, Liste représentative 2008).
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From the Ikpeng children to the world: a video-letter from the Xingu (2001)
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Four Ikpeng children from the Xingu Indigenous Park (Brazil) answer a video-letter from Cuban children, showing their families, games, fishing, school and village festivals. Directed in 2001 by Ikpeng filmmakers trained by Vídeo nas Aldeias.
- Territory
- South America / Village ikpeng (Moygu), parc indigène du Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brésil
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Ikpeng (Txicão)
- 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?
- Vídeo nas Aldeias — réal. Natuyu Yuwipo Txicão, Kumaré Ikpeng, Karané Ikpeng (2001)
- Language and subtitles
- Portugais (version doublée ; original en ikpeng)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28r1cj0xwEs
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
Vídeo nas Aldeias, ONG brésilienne fondée en 1986 par Vincent Carelli, forme des cinéastes autochtones et produit leurs films, primés dans le monde entier. Ce film a été réalisé par trois cinéastes ikpeng issus de cette formation.
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Traditional Li textile techniques: spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidering (UNESCO film)
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Among the Li people of Hainan (China), women spin, dye, weave and embroider cotton and hemp, including warp ikat, passing the skills from mother to daughter. Official UNESCO film for the 2009 inscription on the Urgent Safeguarding List (file 00302).
- Territory
- Asia / Île de Hainan, Chine (régions li du centre-sud : Wuzhishan, Baisha, Dongfang)
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Li (Hlai) de Hainan
- 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?
- UNESCO (film d’inscription, Liste de sauvegarde urgente 2009)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI96KUULaBY
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
Chaîne officielle de l’UNESCO. Films produits pour les dossiers d’inscription au patrimoine culturel immatériel ; celui-ci accompagne l’inscription 2009 des techniques textiles li (Hainan, Chine) sur la Liste de sauvegarde urgente.
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The Night of the Silver Helmets: the Tao of Orchid Island and the sacred flying fish (1998)
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Documentary by Jean-Michel Corillion (1998, ZED / La Cinquième / AB Productions) on the Tao (Yami) people of Orchid Island, Taiwan. As spring arrives, the community prepares the opening of the flying fish season: torch-making, silver helmets and ritual dress, ceremony and sacrifice, then night fishing at sea.
- Territory
- Asia / Île des Orchidées (Lanyu / Botel Tobago), Taïwan
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Tao (Yami)
- 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?
- Jean-Michel Corillion — ZED / La Cinquième / AB Productions (1998) ; diffusion chaîne YouTube SLICE
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (voix off ; documentaire français d'origine « Terres de légendes »)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtZB3dIni8w
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
Jean-Michel Corillion est un documentariste français spécialisé dans les cultures isolées (collection « Terres de légendes »). SLICE est la chaîne documentaire officielle qui diffuse ce film en version anglaise avec l'accord des producteurs (ZED).
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The Gada system: the ancestral democracy of the Oromo of Ethiopia (UNESCO film, 2016)
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Official UNESCO nomination film (2016) on Gada, the traditional governance system of the Oromo people of Ethiopia. Based on generational classes progressing through grades, Gada regulates political, social and religious life; it was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016.
- Territory
- Africa / Région Oromia, Éthiopie
- Skill
- Governance
- Community
- Oromo
- 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?
- UNESCO (film de candidature, dossier RL/01164)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (voix off ; sous-titres automatiques anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8oyqCdEQ8k
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l'UNESCO. Les films de candidature au patrimoine culturel immatériel sont produits avec les États parties et documentent la pratique telle que décrite dans le dossier officiel d'inscription.
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Fiji: the Beqa firewalkers, communal fishing and the Sawau ceremony (silent archival film)
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Silent archival film shot on Beqa Island (Fiji), home of the famed Sawau firewalkers. It follows a day of village life, from rope-making and communal fishing to the preparation of the fire pit, announced by conch shell, and the vilavilairevo firewalking ceremony itself.
- Territory
- Oceania / Île de Beqa, au sud de Viti Levu, Fidji
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Sawau (Fidjiens de l'île de Beqa)
- 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?
- Periscope Film LLC (chaîne YouTube PeriscopeFilm)
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (intertitres en anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goS1xa5MpJo
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film LLC est l'une des plus grandes collections privées d'archives cinématographiques des États-Unis (films historiques, militaires et de transport). Sa chaîne YouTube publie des films d'archives numérisés, souvent accompagnés de sommaires horodatés.
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Antogo, the Sacred Fishing Rite of the Dogon (Bamba, Mali)
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At the foot of the Bandiagara escarpment, the sacred pond of Antogo near Bamba may not be touched all year. One day a year, at the elders' call, more than a thousand men from across Dogon country dive in together for a ritual fishing that lasts only minutes. The film follows the preparations — fish traps, the blacksmith's work, millet beer, ceremonial dress — then the rites, incantations and the sharing of the catch. (Source: AMP.)
- Territory
- Africa / Bamba, falaise de Bandiagara, cercle de Koro, région de Mopti, Mali
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Dogon
- 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?
- Bernard Curtet et Gilles Ragris — AMP (Ampersand)
- Language and subtitles
- Français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7XjjY6Bk8
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
« Antogo, la pêche sacrée », film de Bernard Curtet et Gilles Ragris, © AMP (Ampersand, distributeur français de documentaires), publié sur la chaîne YouTube du distributeur « World View - Peuples du monde » avec chapitrage officiel et sous-titres en 22 langues.
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Akan: the Sacred Winter World of the Ainu (Hokkaidō, Japan)
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On the shores of frozen Lake Akan in Hokkaidō, the Akan Ainu Kotan village keeps Ainu traditions alive. A traveller follows a guide through the winter forest, learning useful trees and plants and the respect owed to the kamuy spirits, then visits workshops of woodcarving, embroidery, music (the Sakhalin Ainu tonkori) and winter cooking. (Source: NHK WORLD-JAPAN, “Journeys in Japan”.)
- Territory
- Asia / Lac Akan (Akan Ainu Kotan), Kushiro, Hokkaidō, Japon
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Aïnous (Hokkaidō ; évocation des Aïnous de Sakhaline)
- 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?
- NHK WORLD-JAPAN — émission « Journeys in Japan »
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnXGBKhTLsw
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
NHK WORLD-JAPAN est le service international du diffuseur public japonais NHK. L'émission « Journeys in Japan » fait découvrir les régions du Japon ; cet épisode est consacré au village aïnou d'Akan Kotan (lac Akan, Hokkaidō) et à ses savoir-faire d'hiver.
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The Last Trackers of the Outback: the Aboriginal Art of Reading Tracks (2007)
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In the Australian bush, the last Aboriginal trackers can still read the passage of people and animals in sand and grass. Through two true cases — the 1963 manhunt for Billy Benn and the search for a little girl lost in the Queensland jungle with tracker George Musgrave — the film shows how this ancestral skill served police and rescue teams for a century, and how it is now at risk of disappearing. (Source: FranceTV Distribution.)
- Territory
- Oceania / Australie centrale (Alice Springs) et Queensland, Australie
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Aborigènes d'Australie (traqueurs, dont Teddy Egan et George Musgrave)
- 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?
- Eric Elléna et Vanessa Escalante (2007) — FranceTV Distribution
- Language and subtitles
- Français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gazcg-PZK7M
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
Chaîne officielle « DOCS Histoire & Culture » de FranceTV Distribution, filiale de France Télévisions, qui édite les documentaires du groupe. Film d'Eric Elléna et Vanessa Escalante (French Connection Films, 2007), Prix du Public au FIFO 2008 (Festival International du Film Documentaire Océanien, Tahiti).
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The last eagle hunters of Mongolia (Kazakhs of the Altai)
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In the Altai mountains of western Mongolia, Kazakh burkitshi keep the golden-eagle hunting tradition alive. The report follows the craft step by step: taking an eaglet from a cliff nest, feeding and taming it, hunting on horseback in winter, then releasing the bird back to the wild after a few years. It also shows the next generation — schools, festivals and young huntresses like Aisholpan — facing a changing climate and way of life. (Source: ABC Foreign Correspondent, 2017.)
- Territory
- Asia / Province de Bayan-Ölgii, monts Altaï, ouest de la Mongolie
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Kazakhs de Mongolie (chasseurs à l'aigle, burkitshi)
- 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?
- « Foreign Correspondent », ABC (télévision publique australienne), 2017 — chaîne officielle ABC News In-depth
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (v.o. kazakhe sous-titrée, sous-titres incrustés)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQFi3lzrGM
- Date added
- 29/09/2026
Original creator
ABC News In-depth : chaîne YouTube officielle du diffuseur public australien ABC. « Foreign Correspondent » est son magazine international de reportages depuis 1992.
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Living heritage of Tanzania: Hadzabe hunters and Maasai warriors
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Photographer Christophe Ratier joins the Hadzabe, one of the last hunter-gatherer peoples, in the bushlands of northern Tanzania: bow hunting, honey gathering, wild tubers and campfires, up to the sacred rock of Dondobi. Further north, among the Kisongo Maasai at the foot of the sacred volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, a teenager prepares to become a Moran (warrior). The film shows how sacred places still structure daily life in both societies. (Source: official SLICE channel description.)
- Territory
- Africa / Nord de la Tanzanie — pays hadzabe (lac Eyasi) et pays masaï Kisongo (volcan Ol Doinyo Lengai)
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Hadzabe ; Maasaï (clan Kisongo)
- 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?
- Série « Travelling Photographers » (Photographes voyageurs), épisode Tanzanie avec Christophe Ratier — diffusée par SLICE (Mediawan)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire et sous-titres incrustés ; paroles en hadzane et en maa)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hyJy4YUevk
- Date added
- 29/09/2026
Original creator
SLICE : chaîne documentaire officielle du groupe Mediawan (1,29 M d'abonnés). Épisode de la série « Travelling Photographers », avec le photographe Christophe Ratier.
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Freediving with the Bajau: Indonesia's last sea nomads (Kaledupa, Wakatobi)
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Once fully nomadic, the Bajau of Indonesia now live in stilt villages off Kaledupa Island, in the Wakatobi marine park. The film follows Lauda, one of the community's best freedivers, through every step of traditional fishing: nets and spears, canoe trips, breath-hold dives on the reef, and the catch shared between generations. (Source: Découpages/ARTE France documentary, official SLICE channel.)
- Territory
- Asia / Île de Kaledupa, parc national de Wakatobi, Sulawesi du Sud-Est, Indonésie
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Bajau (Badjos)
- 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?
- Découpages & ARTE France — série « People of the Sea », ép. 4 Indonésie (réal. Ludovic Fossard), diffusée par SLICE (Mediawan), 2025
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (sous-titres incrustés ; v.o. bajau/indonésien)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcHuBIaZWw
- Date added
- 29/09/2026
Original creator
SLICE : chaîne documentaire officielle du groupe Mediawan (1,29 M d'abonnés). Épisode issu de la série « People of the Sea » réalisée par Ludovic Fossard, produite par Découpages avec ARTE France.
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Ashanti country (Ghana): cocoa, drums and the great durbar (colour film, 1940s)
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A 1940s colour documentary filmed in Ashanti country (Gold Coast, now Ghana), digitized from 16mm by A/V Geeks: village life and the great Kumasi market, the whole cocoa chain — harvesting pods, splitting, fermenting and drying the beans, weighing and payment, surf boats carrying the sacks to ships — and a great durbar of Ashanti chiefs under ceremonial umbrellas, with talking drums, dances and gold regalia.
- Territory
- Africa / Kumasi et région Ashanti, Ghana (ex-Gold Coast)
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Ashanti (Asante)
- 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?
- Production d'époque (années 1940, cartons à vérifier) ; copie 16 mm numérisée par A/V Geeks 16mm Films
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVijS-xVUFo
- Date added
- 25/09/2026
Original creator
A/V Geeks 16mm Films (Skip Elsheimer, Caroline du Nord) collecte, numérise et préserve des milliers de films 16 mm « orphelins », notamment éducatifs et documentaires. Film original : documentaire couleur des années 1940 sur le pays ashanti, production d'époque non créditée dans la description.
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Nias 1936: the stone jump, the warriors of Bawomataluo and the markets of Sumatra (archive film)
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A 1936 Screen Traveler travelogue by André de la Varre (Travel Film Archive): the hilltop villages of Orahili and Bawomataluo on Nias — steep-roofed houses, the chief with his ornate scabbard, the famous stone-jumping of young men, a war dance in armor — then West Sumatra: Payakumbuh's Sunday market, the holy fish of Paloepoeh, water buffalo, Batak and Minangkabau horn-roofed houses, grain drying on mats.
- Territory
- Asia / Île de Nias (Orahili, Bawomataluo) puis ouest de Sumatra (Payakumbuh), Indonésie
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Ono Niha (peuple de Nias) ; Minangkabau et Batak (Sumatra)
- 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?
- André de la Varre, série « The Screen Traveler » (1936) ; fonds Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSy_f1l_wy4
- Date added
- 25/09/2026
Original creator
Le Travel Film Archive rassemble et numérise des films de voyage et d'ethnographie de 1900 à 1970. Film original : André de la Varre, cinéaste-voyageur américain, série « The Screen Traveler » (1936).
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Hawaii 1940: net fishing, earth oven and outrigger canoe (archive film)
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A 1940 Encyclopaedia Britannica Films classroom film made with anthropologist Margaret Mead: volcanoes and plantations, then a Hawaiian family's daily life — fish cooked in leaves, coconut grating, boys' net fishing, the building and launching of an outrigger canoe, and the launch feast with pig roasted in a leaf-lined earth oven, poi eaten by hand and ukulele songs.
- Territory
- Oceania / Archipel d'Hawaï (Honolulu et campagnes)
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Hawaïens autochtones (Kānaka Maoli)
- 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 (1940), avec Margaret Mead ; numérisation Periscope Film LLC (film n° 43774)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XHGzfstNU4
- Date added
- 25/09/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film LLC collecte, numérise et préserve des films 16 et 35 mm historiques (l'un des plus grands fonds privés d'archives film aux États-Unis). Film original : Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, réalisé en collaboration avec l'anthropologue Margaret Mead (American Museum of Natural History).
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Ewe's milk cheese: a Pyrenean shepherd shows every step (1968 report)
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French ORTF report (11 March 1968, INA collection): a Pyrenean shepherd demonstrates ewe's-milk cheesemaking step by step — hand milking, cauldron curdling, breaking and kneading the curd, moulding, pressing — ending with the shepherd's own words and the farm meal.
- Territory
- Europe / Pyrénées, zone Ossau-Iraty (Béarn / Pays basque) — lieu exact non nommé dans le reportage
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Bergers des Pyrénées (Béarn / Pays basque)
- 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?
- ORTF (reportage du 11 mars 1968) — fonds INA, chaîne officielle INA Société
- Language and subtitles
- Français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=137VXlhcu0g
- Date added
- 24/09/2026
Original creator
L'Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) conserve et diffuse les archives de la radio et de la télévision françaises. Ce reportage ORTF du 11 mars 1968 (notice INA boc9307090373) suit un berger des Pyrénées dans la fabrication du fromage de brebis.
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Life in Afghanistan in the 1950s: salt mine, harvests, bazaar and craftsmen (archive film)
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1950s archive film (Huntley Film Archives, no. 1015670): horsemen in mountain valleys, hand-cut rock salt mining, nomad camel caravans, harvesting, ox-drawn ploughing, winnowing, cotton picking, then fortified towns — bazaar, public letter writer, a father teaching his son to weave, a coppersmith, mosques and collective prayer.
- Territory
- Asia / Afghanistan (hautes vallées, plaines agricoles et villes fortifiées)
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Afghans (Pachtouns, Tadjiks et autres peuples d'Afghanistan)
- 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?
- Huntley Film Archives (film n° 1015670)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niuNn8pUBrE
- Date added
- 24/09/2026
Original creator
Huntley Film Archives est un fonds d'archives cinématographiques britannique indépendant, fondé dans les années 1980, qui conserve et diffuse plus de 80 000 films documentaires et amateurs du XXe siècle. Ce film (n° 1015670) montre la vie quotidienne en Afghanistan dans les années 1950.
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Yap in festival, 1980s: sitting dances, woven regalia and island life (archive footage)
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1980s archive footage from Yap (Micronesia), shot by the local broadcaster V6AI during a festival day: rowed sitting dances, woven-fibre regalia, palm-leaf stalls, lagoon sailing and a graduation in woven hats. Digitized through UNESCO-ICHCAP's programme, shared with permission of the Yap State authorities.
- Territory
- Oceania / Colonia, État de Yap, États fédérés de Micronésie
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Yapais
- 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?
- V6AI Radio / Yap State Division of Media and Protocol — numérisation ICHCAP (UNESCO), diffusion NGO Pasifika Renaissance
- Language and subtitles
- Sans commentaire (son d'ambiance)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lSCgb5rTLk
- Date added
- 24/09/2026
Original creator
Pasifika Renaissance est une ONG qui sauvegarde et repartage le patrimoine audiovisuel du Pacifique. Ces images de Yap (années 1980) appartiennent au fonds de la radio-télévision d'État V6AI ; elles ont été numérisées par ICHCAP, centre de catégorie 2 de l'UNESCO pour le patrimoine culturel immatériel, et publiées avec l'autorisation du Yap State Division of Media and Protocol.
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The Salt Tuareg: the Azalai Caravan from Agadez to Bilma (1988 report)
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A 1988 French TV report (TF1, preserved by the INA) on the azalai salt caravan from Agadez to the Bilma oasis across the Ténéré desert: forty men and 300 camels led by Tuareg guides walk 15 to 20 days to load salt from the Bilma salt pans, bartered for staple goods — a thousand-year-old trade passed down through generations.
- Territory
- Africa / Désert du Ténéré, d’Agadez à l’oasis de Bilma, Niger
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Touaregs (caravaniers) et sauniers de l’oasis de Bilma
- 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?
- INA — émission « 52 sur la Une », TF1, 23/06/1988 (chaîne officielle Ina Voyages)
- Language and subtitles
- Français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bixsw74oTM
- Date added
- 23/09/2026
Original creator
INA, Institut national de l’audiovisuel : conserve et diffuse les archives de la radio et de la télévision françaises. La chaîne « Ina Voyages » publie les reportages de voyage des fonds de l’INA.
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Peru: People of the Mountains (1940 classroom film)
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A 1940 classroom film (Erpi / Encyclopaedia Britannica Films) on Quechua peasant farmers of the Peruvian Andes: llama caravans in the streets of Cusco, open-ground markets, collective ploughing with oxen and foot plough, shared meals in the fields, wool spinning and weaving, grain winnowing, and llama caravans on mountain trails.
- Territory
- South America / Cusco et les hautes terres du sud du Pérou
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Quechua des Andes péruviennes
- 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?
- Erpi Classroom Films / Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, avec Earle K. James (1940) ; diffusé par Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABG7wjIZrw
- Date added
- 23/09/2026
Original creator
Travel Film Archive : fonds d’archives de films de voyage (1900-1970), qui numérise et diffuse des films d’époque. Production d’origine : Erpi Classroom Films / Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, avec Earle K. James (génériques du film).
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The Peruvian Amazon: Life Along the River (1962 film)
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1962 archival film on life along the Amazon in Peru: the river trade of Iquitos, cassava and bananas unloaded on the muddy waterfront, rosewood oil distilled under a thatched roof, stilt houses built for the floods, forest peoples hunting with blowguns, and fishing in quiet tributaries.
- Territory
- South America / Iquitos et le fleuve Amazone, Loreto, Pérou
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Peuples riverains (ribereños) et peuples amérindiens de l’Amazonie péruvienne
- 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?
- Travel Film Archive (fonds d’archives, film de 1962)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HTKNQPq0U
- Date added
- 23/09/2026
Original creator
Travel Film Archive : fonds d’archives de films de voyage (1900-1970), qui numérise et diffuse des films d’époque sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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The Batak of Sumatra: village, communal plowing and dances (Harvard film, 1929)
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A silent 1929 film made for Harvard's Anthropology Department ("Peoples and Cultures of the World" series), preserved by Periscope Film. In the northwestern highlands of Sumatra it documents a Batak village: pile-built houses with sweeping roofs, faces and silver ornaments, blackened teeth, rice-field plowing done as a team with long pointed sticks, betel chewing, rice pounding, weaving inside the houses, and dances — the ornamented sway of the women, the held poses of the men — to gongs, with volcanoes on the horizon. One of the earliest ethnographic films devoted to the Lake Toba people.
- Territory
- Asia / Hautes terres du nord-ouest de Sumatra, pays batak (région du lac Toba), Indonésie
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Batak (Toba, Karo, Simalungun, Pakpak, Angkola, Mandailing)
- 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?
- Département d'anthropologie de l'université Harvard, 1929 (série « Peoples and Cultures of the World ») — fonds Periscope Film LLC
- Language and subtitles
- film muet (cartons en anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqinui6TOcU
- Date added
- 22/09/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film LLC : archive américaine indépendante qui restaure et met en ligne des films historiques, industriels et documentaires du XXe siècle (chaîne YouTube officielle).
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Kuşköy, the whistling village: Türkiye's "bird language" of the Black Sea (UNESCO)
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Film from the official nomination of Turkish whistled language to UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding (2017). In the steep Black Sea valleys around Kuşköy ("bird village", Giresun), Turkish is articulated in whistles that carry from ridge to ridge — an old answer to the terrain. The film shows whistlers' demonstrations, the school where children learn kuş dili in pairs, elders' recollections, official safeguarding efforts and the annual Bird Language Festival, as mobile phones erode the practice.
- Territory
- Asia / Kuşköy, district de Çanakçı, province de Giresun, Turquie — mer Noire orientale
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Villageois turcs de la mer Noire orientale (région de Giresun-Trabzon), gardiens du kuş dili
- 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?
- Ministère de la Culture et du Tourisme de Turquie (2014) — mise en ligne par la chaîne officielle UNESCO (dossier d'inscription 2017)
- Language and subtitles
- turc (sous-titres anglais incrustés)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSoP5qNuNOI
- Date added
- 22/09/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l'UNESCO ; le film provient du dossier d'inscription de la langue sifflée turque (fiche 00658) au patrimoine culturel immatériel nécessitant une sauvegarde urgente (2017), © Ministère turc de la Culture et du Tourisme, 2014.
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Fallen Eagle: Sioux life from the Plains to the reservation (1950s film)
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A 1950s American short film (Alan Shilin, with the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs), preserved by Periscope Film. It re-enacts Sioux life of the 1860s-1870s — the nomadic camp following the buffalo, the travois, tipi raising, the peace pipe, the winter count painted on buffalo hide, the hunt, the medicine man, and a full wedding sequence — then shows reservation life in the Black Hills and Badlands after Little Big Horn: rodeos, the Rosebud handicraft museum, cattle ranching. A dated period gaze in places, but gestures and objects are shown in detail.
- Territory
- North America / Réserve de Rosebud (Sicangu/Brulé), Dakota du Sud, États-Unis
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Sioux (Lakota, notamment Sicangu de Rosebud)
- 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 d'Alan Shilin (années 1950), avec l'U.S. Office of Indian Affairs — fonds Periscope Film LLC
- Language and subtitles
- anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ604H2XJJs
- Date added
- 22/09/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film LLC : archive américaine indépendante qui restaure et met en ligne des films historiques, industriels et documentaires du XXe siècle (chaîne YouTube officielle).
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The Ráramuri: the running people of Mexico's Copper Canyons
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Deep in the Copper Canyons of Chihuahua, the Rarámuri have run across mountains and desert trails for centuries. Running is tied to spirituality, health and connection to the land. Children walk hours to school, elders recall races that united villages, and young champions like Catalina Rascón and Miguel Lara carry the tradition - in huarache sandals, up to the Caballo Blanco ultramarathon - under the growing shadow of tourism and cartel violence.
- Territory
- North America / Barrancas del Cobre (canyons du Cuivre), Sierra Tarahumara, État de Chihuahua, Mexique
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Rarámuri (Tarahumaras)
- 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?
- SLICE (chaîne documentaire officielle), 2026
- Language and subtitles
- anglais et espagnol (témoignages ; sous-titres automatiques espagnols)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUjJhyY7z6Q
- Date added
- 20/09/2026
Original creator
SLICE est une marque documentaire internationale (déclinaisons SLICE, SLICE Peuples, SLICE Docus) qui édite des documentaires de société et d'exploration ; déjà source de la fiche Wodaabe du site.
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The Nuer: the cattle people of the Upper Nile (official excerpt, 1968-1970 footage)
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Official excerpt of "The Nuer" (1971), a classic of ethnographic cinema filmed in 1968-1970 by Hilary Harris and George Breidenbach with Robert Gardner for Harvard's Peabody Museum. Among the Nuer (Naath) of the Upper Nile, life revolves around cattle: herds moving through the marshes, cone-shaped byres, dung-smoke fires, songs addressed to oxen, gaar scarification. Almost wordless, the film works through direct images and sound.
- Territory
- Africa / Village de Ciengach, pays des Nuer Jikany de l'Est - Éthiopie occidentale (région de Gambela), près de l'actuel Soudan du Sud
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Nuer (Naath)
- 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?
- Hilary Harris et George Breidenbach, avec Robert Gardner - Film Study Center, Peabody Museum, Harvard (1971) ; distribution Documentary Educational Resources
- Language and subtitles
- sans commentaire (sons directs, chants nuer)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VBnrIkAtA
- Date added
- 20/09/2026
Original creator
Documentary Educational Resources (DER), distributeur à but non lucratif fondé en 1968, diffuse les grands films ethnographiques, dont ceux du Film Study Center du Peabody Museum (Harvard).
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Drums Across the Lagoon: everyday life of the Cook Islands Maori (1960 archive film)
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A 1960 New Zealand National Film Unit film held by Archives New Zealand. It shows Cook Islands Maori daily life: family taro and kumara plots, the coconut tree that provides everything, lagoon fishing and land-crab hunting, earth-oven cooking, burnt-coral lime used to build schools and houses, the orange trade, and everywhere drums and dance - while dealing frankly with the impact of modern ways on ancient Polynesian culture.
- Territory
- Oceania / Rarotonga et atolls des îles Cook (Pacifique sud)
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Maoris des îles Cook (Polynésiens)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Creative Commons BY-NC
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- New Zealand National Film Unit (1960) / fonds Archives New Zealand
- Language and subtitles
- anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4H9G7KAIQY
- Date added
- 20/09/2026
Original creator
Archives New Zealand, institution nationale, conserve et diffuse les archives publiques néo-zélandaises, dont les films du National Film Unit.
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Kama Wosi: songs and music of the Trobriand Islands (excerpt, 1979 footage)
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Official excerpt of Les McLaren’s 1979 ethnographic film distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. Among Trobriand Islanders everyone may compose: work songs at the yam house, walking songs to the gardens, garden magic chants, mourning for a young chief, stem flutes, love and canoe songs.
- Territory
- Oceania / Île de Kiriwina, îles Trobriand, province de Milne Bay, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Trobriandais (habitants de Kiriwina, locuteurs du kilivila)
- 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?
- Film de Les McLaren (1979), premier volet d’une trilogie sur les musiques traditionnelles de PNG ; distribution Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
- Language and subtitles
- Kilivila (kiriwina), sous-titres anglais incrustés
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0env3FI9Y0
- Date added
- 18/09/2026
Original creator
Documentary Educational Resources (DER) est un distributeur américain à but non lucratif de films ethnographiques et documentaires, fondé en 1968. Sa chaîne YouTube officielle publie les extraits de son catalogue, dont « Kama Wosi » de Les McLaren (1979).
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The art of the yurt: traditional knowledge and skills of the Kyrgyz and Kazakh peoples (UNESCO)
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Official film for the 2014 UNESCO inscription of traditional knowledge and skills in making Kyrgyz and Kazakh yurts. Men craft the steam-bent wooden frame, women make the felt covers, chii mats and woven bands; the film shows master-to-apprentice transmission, seasonal migration and the yurt’s symbolism, down to the tunduk on Kyrgyzstan’s flag.
- Territory
- Asia / Kirghizistan et Kazakhstan ; point carte posé côté Kirghizistan (région de l’Issyk-Kul, villages de fabricants de yourtes)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Kirghiz et Kazakhs (éleveurs nomades turcophones)
- 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?
- UNESCO (film de candidature 2014, © Foundation « Dialogu Kultur — Edinyi Mir »)
- Language and subtitles
- Commentaire en anglais (sous-titres YouTube disponibles)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fvjX90MfSw
- Date added
- 18/09/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l’UNESCO. Ce film accompagne la candidature conjointe du Kirghizistan et du Kazakhstan inscrite en 2014 sur la Liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’humanité (fiche RL/00998).
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Shipibo, the movie of our memories: the Shipibo people respond to the 1953 footage (excerpt)
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Official excerpt of the Field Museum film. In 1953 anthropologist Harry Tschopik Jr. filmed the Shipibo of the Ucayali river; half a century later the museum brought the footage back to the communities. Shipibo artisans, teachers and leaders reflect on past abundance, fading pottery traditions, bilingual intercultural schooling and pride in Shipibo identity.
- Territory
- South America / Communautés shipibo du rio Ucayali, région de Pucallpa / Yarinacocha, Amazonie péruvienne
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Shipibo-Konibo
- 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?
- Field Museum (Chicago) / Fondation MacArthur — images 1953 : Harry Tschopik Jr. (« Men of the Montaña »)
- Language and subtitles
- Espagnol (et shipibo), sans sous-titres
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LnVmLvxVWo
- Date added
- 18/09/2026
Original creator
Chaîne officielle de la Fondation MacArthur (macfound), qui a soutenu ce film du Field Museum de Chicago. Le Field Museum a rapporté aux communautés shipibo les images tournées en 1953 par l’anthropologue Harry Tschopik Jr. (American Museum of Natural History) et filmé leurs réactions.
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Leg rowing: the Intha fishermen of Inle Lake (Myanmar)
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Documentary by the Yangon Film School, shot in Yay-U village on Inle Lake (Shan State). The Intha are known worldwide for rowing standing up with one leg wrapped around the oar. Villagers describe the decline of this practice due to motorised boats, pollution and climate change, amid fishing scenes, floating gardens and the pagoda festival.
- Territory
- Asia / Village de Yay-U, Nyaung Shwe, lac Inle, État Shan, Myanmar (Birmanie)
- Skill
- Water
- Community
- Intha
- 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?
- Yangon Film School (YFS) — « Voices from Yay-U Village », 2017
- Language and subtitles
- Birman, sous-titres anglais incrustés
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i03x-4bHHIM
- Date added
- 17/09/2026
Original creator
La Yangon Film School est une école de cinéma documentaire fondée en 2005 à Rangoun (ONG) ; elle forme de jeunes cinéastes birmans de toutes les communautés du pays et publie leurs films sur sa chaîne officielle.
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The Kalinago of Dominica: the legacy of the last Amerindians of the Antilles
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Documentary by public broadcaster Martinique la 1ère (France Télévisions), by Marc-François Calmo and Cyriaque Sommier (2026). The Kalinago once peopled the whole Lesser Antilles; their last 3,500 members now live in Dominica's Kalinago Territory (granted in 1903). The film explores their memory, school, plant medicine, basketry, dances and the transmission of their heritage.
- Territory
- Central America / Kalinago Territory, côte nord-est de la Dominique (Petites Antilles)
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Kalinago
- 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?
- Martinique la 1ère (France Télévisions) — Marc-François Calmo et Cyriaque Sommier, 2026
- Language and subtitles
- Français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1_zamhK3qI
- Date added
- 17/09/2026
Original creator
Martinique la 1ère est la chaîne publique du réseau Outre-mer de France Télévisions. Sa chaîne YouTube officielle publie ses documentaires et magazines consacrés à la Caraïbe.
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Madagascar 1957: the great Zoma market and the rice harvest (INA archives)
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French television archive footage dated 10 October 1957 (INA collection, official Ina Voyages channel). Arrival in Tananarive, zebu carts on highland roads, the vast Friday Zoma market, and the rice harvest with zebus trampling the paddies — the heart of Merina agricultural life.
- Territory
- Africa / Antananarivo (Tananarive) et hautes terres centrales, Madagascar
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Merina
- 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?
- INA — Institut national de l'audiovisuel (émission du 10 octobre 1957)
- Language and subtitles
- Français (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q_Q-8xiojQ
- Date added
- 17/09/2026
Original creator
L'Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) conserve et diffuse les archives de la radio et de la télévision françaises. La chaîne YouTube « Ina Voyages » publie ses reportages de voyage d'époque.
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Honduras, 1950s: among the Garifuna — sailing dugouts, earthen houses and drums (RTV archives)
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Rare 1950s archive footage of the Garifuna people of Honduras's Caribbean coast, shot by a Spanish channel, rescued by Honduran broadcaster RTV and published by DINAFROH (the government office for Indigenous and Afro-Honduran peoples): sailing dugout canoes, palm-thatched villages, earthen-wall house building, then garawon drums and collective dances on the beach.
- Territory
- Central America / Côte caraïbe du Honduras (région de Tela / Trujillo)
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Garifuna (Garínagu)
- 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?
- Chaîne espagnole des années 1950 (non identifiée) ; restauration RTV (Honduras) ; publication DINAFROH
- Language and subtitles
- espagnol (montage RTV ; images d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDkXwHuMiZ8
- Date added
- 16/09/2026
Original creator
La DINAFROH (Dirección de Pueblos Indígenas y Afrohondureños) est la direction du gouvernement hondurien chargée des peuples autochtones et afro-honduriens ; sa chaîne YouTube publie des documents sur les neuf peuples du pays, dont ce film sauvé par la télévision publique RTV.
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Fiji 1951: growing up in the village — bure, pandanus mats and the great palm-leaf net fishing (archive film)
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Educational film by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films (1951, adviser Donald Collier, Chicago Natural History Museum), preserved by the Travel Film Archive. Through children's daily life in a coastal village of Viti Levu: spear fishing on the reef, communal meals on mats, pandanus weaving, building a thatched bure, planting, coconuts — and a great collective fish drive with an immense palm-leaf net in the lagoon.
- Territory
- Oceania / Village côtier de Viti Levu, îles Fidji
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Fidjiens (iTaukei)
- 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, 1951 (avec Donald Collier, Chicago Natural History Museum) ; fonds Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- anglais (narration d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjX-IyNnfq4
- Date added
- 16/09/2026
Original creator
Travel Film Archive est un fonds d'archives (Global ImageWorks) qui rassemble et diffuse sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle des films de voyage et d'éducation du XXe siècle, dont les productions d'Encyclopaedia Britannica Films.
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Manitoba 1980: harvesting wild rice (manomin) with the Ojibwe of Pauingassi (NFB archives)
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Short National Film Board of Canada documentary (1980) on the manomin (wild rice) harvest among Ojibwe families of the Pauingassi band, east of Lake Winnipeg: gathering by canoe in the reed beds, family camp life, processing and bagging of the grain, and the bush pilots whose floatplanes link the remote camps and fly the harvest to market.
- Territory
- North America / Pauingassi, est du lac Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Ojibwés / Anishinaabeg (bande de Pauingassi)
- 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 (NFB) — réal. Norma Bailey et Bob Lower, 1980
- Language and subtitles
- anglais (pas de sous-titres fiables)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZUc_FQxPDY
- Date added
- 16/09/2026
Original creator
L'Office national du film du Canada (ONF/NFB) est le producteur et distributeur public canadien, fondé en 1939 ; sa chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse son fonds documentaire, dont de nombreux films tournés avec les Premières Nations.
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Ecuador 1957: among the Tsáchila and the Shuar — achiote, marimba, cassava and blowgun (TV archives)
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A 1957 episode of ABC’s “Bold Journey” preserved by Periscope Film. Among the Tsáchila (Colorados): plantain soup, a 16th-century sugar-cane press, achiote body paint and rain-proof hair caps, marimba and dances. Then by canoe to the Shuar: cassava harvest, chicha, curare darts for the blowgun, and a tsantsa shown by the chief. A period gaze to contextualize, but skills filmed directly.
- Territory
- South America / Santo Domingo de los Colorados et Oriente amazonien, Équateur
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Tsáchila (Colorados) et Shuar
- 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?
- Émission ABC « Bold Journey » (1957, images 16 mm d’Eric Pavel), fonds Periscope Film
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (sous-titres automatiques anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taOmeL42qTc
- Date added
- 15/09/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film : fonds d’archives américain qui numérise et diffuse des films historiques, industriels et documentaires du XXe siècle sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle PeriscopeFilm.
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Ethiopia 1942: from Harar to Addis Ababa — harvests, markets and horsemen (Burton Holmes archives)
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Burton Holmes archival film shot in Ethiopia in the early 1940s: Harar countryside, grain threshing and winnowing, Addis Ababa markets and craftsmen, then Haile Selassie’s forces and equestrian re-enactments. A rare document of rural and urban Ethiopia just after the Italian occupation.
- Territory
- Africa / Province du Harar et Addis-Abeba, Éthiopie
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Peuples d’Éthiopie (Amhara, Oromo, Harari)
- 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?
- Burton Holmes Films (début des années 1940), fonds Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet, cartons en anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjpXlR1V7uM
- Date added
- 15/09/2026
Original creator
The Travel Film Archive : fonds américain de films de voyage et d’éducation tournés entre 1900 et 1970, dont les collections du conférencier-voyageur Burton Holmes, diffusé sur YouTube par la chaîne officielle travelfilmarchive.
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Bali 1932: villages, temples, gamelan and dances of the island of the gods (archive film)
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Archival film shot in Bali in 1932 (Travel Film Archive). Village life with rice fields, farmyards and Balinese Hindu temples, then dance with gamelan orchestra and a large ceremony with a seated men’s chorus chanting with raised arms, close to the kecak codified in the 1930s.
- Territory
- Asia / Bali, Indonésie
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Balinais
- 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?
- Travelogue américain de 1932, fonds Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (narration d’époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBeCmW2nI10
- Date added
- 15/09/2026
Original creator
The Travel Film Archive : fonds américain de films de voyage et d’éducation tournés entre 1900 et 1970 (collections Burton Holmes, Andre de la Varre, James A. FitzPatrick), diffusé sur YouTube par la chaîne officielle travelfilmarchive.
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Tonga 1954: feast under the pola, lakalaka dances and song in Nuku'alofa (Archives New Zealand)
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The official 1954 film made by the NZ National Film Unit for the Tongan Government (Archives New Zealand, W3471): woven welcome arches, the great feast under palm-leaf pola shelters, massed singing, seated dances and lakalaka performed by hundreds of dancers during Queen Salote's royal celebrations in Nuku'alofa.
- Territory
- Oceania / Nuku'alofa, île de Tongatapu, royaume des Tonga
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Tongiens
- 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, film officiel pour le gouvernement des Tonga (1954) ; fonds Archives New Zealand, réf. W3471-16BW210
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire) ; sans sous-titres
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zw0oyLGgF8
- Date added
- 14/09/2026
Original creator
Archives New Zealand : les archives nationales de Nouvelle-Zélande ; leur chaîne officielle publie les films numérisés du National Film Unit et d'autres fonds publics, dont de nombreux documents sur le Pacifique (fonds déjà utilisé pour la fiche Tokelau du site).
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Orinoco 1951: the Piaroa of the Parguaza River — churuata, manioc and cassava bread (Getty archives)
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Silent footage shot ca. 1951 by archaeologist José María Cruxent during an Orinoco expedition sponsored by Alfredo Boulton, held at the Getty Research Institute: travelling upriver by canoe, the Piaroa communal churuata house, portraits, and the full bitter-manioc chain — grating, pressing, sieving and cassava flatbreads drying on roofs.
- Territory
- South America / Bassin du río Parguaza, moyen Orénoque, État de Bolívar, Venezuela
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Piaroa (Wötjüja / De'aruwa)
- 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?
- Images de José María Cruxent (archéologue), expédition de 1951 financée par Alfredo Boulton ; fonds Alfredo Boulton, Getty Research Institute
- Language and subtitles
- Muet (cartons de contexte en anglais du Getty)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJNuoA1odPc
- Date added
- 14/09/2026
Original creator
Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) : institut de recherche en histoire de l'art ; sa chaîne officielle publie des documents de ses fonds, dont les films de l'archive Alfredo Boulton sur le Venezuela des années 1940-1950.
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Celebes 1950: from Makassar harbour to Toraja country — tongkonan houses and burial cliffs (Eye Filmmuseum archives)
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A 1950 colour travelogue preserved by the Eye Filmmuseum (Netherlands, ref. FLM10883): Makassar's harbour and streets, water buffalo, Toraja burial cliffs, villages with boat-roofed tongkonan houses, ceremonial dances, carpentry, sailing praus and Komodo dragons. A rare colour record of Sulawesi in 1950.
- Territory
- Asia / Sulawesi (Célèbes), Indonésie — pays toraja, région de Rantepao
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Toraja
- 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?
- Réalisation Jack Kemp, production américaine, 1950 ; collection Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (réf. FLM10883)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque) ; sans sous-titres
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSINc5nKn1w
- Date added
- 14/09/2026
Original creator
Eye Filmmuseum : musée national du film des Pays-Bas (Amsterdam), qui conserve et numérise plus d'un siècle de cinéma ; sa chaîne officielle publie les films de sa collection, dont de nombreux documents coloniaux et ethnographiques contextualisés.
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Azalai: with the Tuareg salt caravan, from the Aïr to Agadez
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A New Atlantis documentary on the azalai, the Tuareg salt caravan between the Aïr mountains and Agadez (Niger), just after the peace agreement: two children from once-opposed families join their elders for the first time, learning the market, the salt loaves, camel handling, night camps and desert wayfinding.
- Territory
- Africa / Massif de l’Aïr, Ténéré et Agadez, Niger
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Touaregs
- 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?
- New Atlantis (réal. Domingo Solano)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBleoonCtOg
- Date added
- 13/09/2026
Original creator
New Atlantis : société de production documentaire espagnole (Madrid), connue pour ses séries sur les peuples et les cultures du monde ; chaîne YouTube officielle « New Atlantis Full Documentaries ».
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Growing up in Sámi Lapland: fishing, tent school and first lassos (1930s archive film)
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A 1930s Huntley Film Archives documentary (film 1001499) on Sámi children’s daily life in Lapland: arriving by rowing boat with fishing nets, family life in the lavvu tent, lessons in a tent school, and training for reindeer herding — lasso practice on antlers and the great reindeer round-up.
- Territory
- Europe / Laponie (probablement Finlande)
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Sami
- 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 (film n° 1001499)
- Language and subtitles
- Muet
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRJE0P5tDiM
- Date added
- 13/09/2026
Original creator
Huntley Film Archives : fonds d’archives cinématographiques britannique indépendant fondé dans les années 1980, spécialisé dans le film documentaire historique, qui numérise et licencie ses collections via sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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The Mongols of Central Asia: horsemen, felt and yurts of the Gobi (1928 film)
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A silent 1928 ethnographic film compiled by Harvard’s Department of Anthropology and distributed by Pathé Exchange, showing Mongol nomads of the eastern Gobi: catching horses with the lasso pole (urga), horse races, traditional dress, yak and camel transport, felt-making, and the full assembly of a yurt.
- Territory
- Asia / Steppes du Gobi oriental, Mongolie
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Mongols (éleveurs 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?
- Harvard Dept. of Anthropology / Pathé Exchange ; numérisé par Periscope Film
- Language and subtitles
- Muet (intertitres en anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFIWXsoEDMQ
- Date added
- 13/09/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film LLC : société américaine d’archives cinématographiques fondée en 1999, qui restaure et numérise des films historiques rares (industriels, militaires, ethnographiques) et les diffuse sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Sacred Vessels: Canoes and Navigation in Polowat (Micronesia, 1997) — Part 1
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Made in 1997 by Micronesian scholar Vicente M. Diaz with Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding, this documentary follows a new generation of canoe carvers and navigators from Polowat (Central Carolines) and Guam keeping alive the ancestral art of the outrigger canoe and instrument-free navigation. Engravings, maps and sepia archival footage of Carolinian sailing canoes converse with images of modern Guam and of the canoe house, where hulls are carved as children watch. Polowat's master navigators, keepers of one of the Pacific's last traditional navigation schools, tell what the canoe carries in identity and knowledge. Part one of two.
- Territory
- Oceania / Atoll de Polowat (Puluwat), îles Carolines centrales, État de Chuuk, Micronésie — et Guam
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Carolingiens de Polowat (navigateurs et charpentiers de pirogues) ; Chamorros de Guam
- 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?
- Vicente M. Diaz (1997), avec le soutien de la Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (témoignages locaux sous-titrés)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7nXev2Jt7g
- Date added
- 12/09/2026
Original creator
Vicente M. Diaz, chercheur micronésien en études du Pacifique (originaire de Guam), documentariste identifié ; film financé par la Corporation for Public Broadcasting (carton au générique), mis en ligne sur la chaîne de l'auteur.
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The Haenyeo of Jeju: Korea's Free-Diving Sea Women
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On Jeju Island, a community of women — some in their eighties — free-dive up to ten metres without oxygen to harvest shellfish and seaweed, up to seven hours a day, 90 days a year. Produced by the Haenyeo Museum for the UNESCO nomination, the film shows diving with the tewak buoy, the bulteok fire where the craft is passed on, and rituals for safety and abundant catch. Transmission runs through families, fishery cooperatives and the Haenyeo School, and the practice has advanced women's status in the community. Jeju haenyeo culture was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2016.
- Territory
- Asia / Île de Jeju, Corée du Sud (Hado-ri, Gujwa-eup)
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Haenyeo de Jeju (communauté de plongeuses coréennes)
- 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?
- Haenyeo Museum (2014) — mis en ligne par l’UNESCO (2016)
- Language and subtitles
- Coréen, sous-titres anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk7DQLMKBTE
- Date added
- 12/09/2026
Original creator
Chaîne officielle de l'UNESCO. Film © Haenyeo Museum (Jeju, 2014), présenté pour l'inscription de la culture des haenyeo sur la Liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité (2016).
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Weaving the Q'eswachaka Bridge: Living Inka Engineering
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Every June, Quechua communities on both sides of the Apurímac canyon rebuild the Q'eswachaka suspension bridge in just three days, as they have continually since Inka times. Q'oya grass is harvested, twisted into cords and braided into massive cables stretched across the gorge before the old bridge is cut away. Produced by the Smithsonian NMAI (2015) and narrated by MIT engineer John Ochsendorf, the film follows every step through to the celebration dances. The tradition has been inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list since 2013.
- Territory
- South America / Gorge du río Apurímac, district de Quehue, province de Canas, région de Cusco, Pérou
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Communautés quechuas de Huinchiri, Chaupibanda, Choccayhua et Ccollana Quehue
- 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?
- Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian / Noonday Films (2015)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (narration), rituel en quechua
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dql-D6JQ1Bc
- Date added
- 12/09/2026
Original creator
Chaîne officielle du Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, D.C.). Film réalisé par Noonday Films pour l'exposition « The Great Inka Road : Engineering an Empire », narration John Ochsendorf, professeur d'ingénierie civile au MIT.
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The River People: the Pima of Arizona and their water (1948 film)
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A 1948 colour film by the U.S. Indian Bureau about the Pima (Akimel O'odham), "the River People", in the Arizona desert. It shows desert skills — saguaro fruit harvest, grinding, basketry, pottery — then tells how the Gila River was diverted upstream in the late 19th century, and how the Coolidge Dam (1930) brought irrigation back to the fields. A period document: traditional gestures in colour, and the story of a nation of irrigators deprived of its river, told by the administration itself.
- Territory
- North America / Communauté du fleuve Gila (Gila River Indian Community), région de Sacaton, Arizona, États-Unis
- Skill
- Water
- Community
- Pimas (Akimel O'odham, « le peuple de la rivière »)
- 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?
- U.S. Indian Bureau (Bureau des affaires indiennes, gouvernement américain), 1948 ; copie diffusée par la chaîne d'archives « Wood Ridge » (B.I. Film Gallery)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZfA0ucMCGA
- Date added
- 11/09/2026
Original creator
Film produit en 1948 par le U.S. Indian Bureau (aujourd'hui Bureau of Indian Affairs), administration fédérale américaine ; la copie en ligne est diffusée par « Wood Ridge », chaîne qui republie des films administratifs américains (surimpression « B.I. Film Gallery »).
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Tutuguri: rite and ritual races of the Tarahumara (1979 film)
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Shot in the summer of 1979 in the Sierra Tarahumara by Raymonde Carasco and Régis Hébraud. The film follows the Tutuguri, sung and danced by Tranquilino, the saweame (ritual singer): a solar rite older than the Spanish conquest, whose dance builds a sacred space between the four cardinal points. The editing interweaves the rite with the carreras, the ritual races of the Rarámuri people — men's bola race and women's aro race.
- Territory
- Central America / Sierra Tarahumara, État de Chihuahua, Mexique (région de Norogachi — localisation approximative)
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Rarámuri (Tarahumaras), « ceux au pied qui court »
- 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?
- Raymonde Carasco et Régis Hébraud, cinéastes-ethnographes français (série « Tarahumaras », 1976-2003) ; mixage Jacques Spirckel ; mis en ligne par Régis Hébraud
- Language and subtitles
- Quasi sans paroles ; chant rituel en rarámuri ; cartons en français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbUH3yrj_Bo
- Date added
- 11/09/2026
Original creator
Raymonde Carasco (1939-2009) et Régis Hébraud, couple de cinéastes-ethnographes français, ont consacré aux Rarámuri la série « Tarahumaras » (1976-2003), sur les traces d'Antonin Artaud ; Régis Hébraud diffuse lui-même les films sur sa chaîne.
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The Cart and the Man: the founding film of Galician ethnographic cinema (1940)
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Shot in 1940 in the village of Facós (Ourense) by ethnographer Xaquín Lorenzo "Xocas", this is the founding film of Galician ethnographic cinema. The villagers themselves re-enact the daily gestures of rural life around the traditional ox-cart, the central tool of work, economy and identity in the Galician countryside. Digitised from the 1980 edit and published by the Museo do Pobo Galego, which holds the public reproduction rights.
- Territory
- Europe / Village de Facós, commune de Lobeira, province d'Ourense, Galice (Espagne)
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Paysans galiciens (communauté rurale de langue galicienne)
- 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?
- Antonio Román (réalisation, photographie) et Xaquín Lorenzo « Xocas » (scénario, narration), 1940 ; montage 1980 ; mis en ligne par le Museo do Pobo Galego
- Language and subtitles
- Galicien
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3C-b5yr1Fk
- Date added
- 11/09/2026
Original creator
Le Museo do Pobo Galego (Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle) est le musée de la culture et de l'ethnographie galiciennes ; sa chaîne officielle diffuse les films de son fonds, dont il détient les droits de reproduction publique.
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In the Naga Hills: Ursula Graham Bower’s colour film (1940-1944)
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Extremely rare colour footage shot between 1940 and 1944 in the North Cachar Hills (Assam, India) by British anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower, who lived among the Zemi Naga for seven years: raised bamboo water pipes, communal fish-poisoning expeditions, backstrap-loom weaving, large grain baskets, rice threshing, and the Hgangi festival at Laisong with its dances. The video description, written shot by shot, serves as a sequence log. Source: Prof Alan Macfarlane's channel (Cambridge).
- Territory
- Asia / Collines du Cachar Nord (district de Dima Hasao, Assam, Inde) : villages de Laisong, Impoi, Hangrum
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Zemi Naga (groupe naga)
- 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?
- Images : Ursula Graham Bower (1940-1944) ; mise en ligne : Pr Alan Macfarlane, université de Cambridge
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (description en anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_MufJvBQxw
- Date added
- 09/09/2026
Original creator
Ursula Graham Bower (1914-1988), anthropologue britannique ayant vécu chez les Zemi Naga de 1939 à 1946 (auteure de « Naga Path »). Fonds mis en ligne par le Pr Alan Macfarlane (université de Cambridge), dépositaire de nombreuses archives ethnographiques.
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The Mystery of Easter Island: the Rapa Nui and their moai (archival film, 1950s)
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American documentary from the late 1940s or early 1950s, filmed on Easter Island: the village of Hanga Roa, the annual supply boat from Chile, and the Rano Raraku quarries with unfinished moai, a 66-foot statue, stone carving tools and ahu platforms. A rare look at the island in the mid-20th century; some theories in the narration have since been disproven. Source: Periscope Film LLC archive (ref. 53534).
- Territory
- Oceania / Île de Pâques (Rapa Nui), Chili : Hanga Roa, volcan Rano Raraku
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Rapa Nui (Polynésiens de l'île de Pâques)
- 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 Simmel-Meservey, récit de Jackson Winter (vers 1950) ; fonds Periscope Film LLC
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlw_LMDU4vw
- Date added
- 09/09/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film LLC : fonds d'archives américain qui restaure et numérise des films historiques (16 et 35 mm) et les publie librement sur YouTube ; images licenciées à la BBC, Smithsonian, National Geographic, etc.
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The Seminole of the Everglades: living in the swamps (archival film, ca. 1940)
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American educational film shot in the late 1930s in the Florida Everglades: alligator hunting, patchwork clothes-making under the chickees, dugout canoes and camp life. The period narration is dated and paternalistic, but the footage of the Seminole camps is rare and precious. Source: Periscope Film LLC archive (ref. 70614).
- Territory
- North America / Everglades et Big Cypress, Floride, États-Unis
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Séminoles de Floride
- 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 pédagogique américain « Proudest Americans » (vers 1940) ; fonds Periscope Film LLC
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LV7jQSouo
- Date added
- 09/09/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film LLC : fonds d'archives américain qui restaure et numérise des films historiques (16 et 35 mm) et les publie librement sur YouTube ; images licenciées à la BBC, Smithsonian, National Geographic, etc.
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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
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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