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The Docuseek Anthropology Collection

The Anthropology Collection from Docuseek features a stellar collection of films that cover the entire spectrum of the field of anthropology. Over 400 hundred films cover the richness of the anthropology discipline by presenting stories from every continent, with content in every major sub-discipline, including historical anthropology, visual anthropology, cultural anthropology, economic anthropology, forensic anthropology, and physical anthropology.

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The Docuseek Anthropology Collection includes the following titles:

Bidder 70 - imageBidder 70

Tells the story of Tim DeChristopher's extraordinary, ingenious and effective act of civil disobedience drawing attention to the need for action on climate change.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 72 minutes | 10 -12, College, Adults
Big Spuds, Little Spuds - imageBig Spuds, Little Spuds

The impact of climate change and monoculture on one of the world's staple food crops.

Bullfrog Films | 1999 | 52 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Billion Dollar Crop - imageBillion Dollar Crop

The history and advantages of hemp as an industrial fiber.

Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 55 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Biophilic Design - imageBiophilic Design

A design revolution that connects buildings to the natural world, buildings where people feel and perform better.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 62 minutes | Grades 7-12, College, Adults
Birth on the Border - imageBirth on the Border

Seeking a safer future for their children, two women from Ciudad Juárez, risk harassment at the hands of Border Patrol to cross the US-Mexico border legally to give birth in El Paso, Texas.

Women Make Movies | 2018 | 28 minutes
Bitter Money - imageBitter Money

Follows a handful of migrant factory workers, both at work where they may labor for more than 12 hours a day and in their off-hours, and as they hang around shabby dorms drinking, dreaming of home, worrying about getting paid, and trying to decide whether their jobs are worth keeping.

dGenerate Films | 2016 | 152 minutes
Bitter Seeds - imageBitter Seeds

The final film in Micha X. Peled's Globalization Trilogy examines the epidemic of suicides amongst India's cotton farmers, deeply in debt after switching to genetically modified seeds.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 88 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Blowback - imageBlowback

BLOWBACK is a dynamic exploration of the representation of the wars in Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2021) in world cinema which argues that films function as resonant cultural artifacts that shape how the conflicts come to be understood and remembered by audiences at the time, and those of generations to come.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 30 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Blowpipes and Bulldozers - imageBlowpipes and Bulldozers

The story of the Penan, a tribe of rainforest nomads in Borneo, as seen by Bruno Manser.

Bullfrog Films | 1989 | 60 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Blue Island - imageBlue Island

This creative documentary shows real-life characters recreating protest movements from Hong Kong's modern history.

dGenerate Films | 2022 | 98 minutes

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