John Marshall Movies

A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and...

An ethnographic documentary following four Ju/’hoansi (!Kung) men during a multi-day giraffe hunt in the Kalahari Desert, filmed during the...

Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree.

This film focuses on a black burglary suspect who, during interrogation by police offers his services as an "undercover" informant - providing the...

In each scene, police respond to a different domestic abuse calls.

A customer tries to explain to police why he feels he has been cheated out of an exhaust system by a garage owner.

This short film shows a family's attempt to resolve a dispute among themselves over a brother's damaged car, after the police have been called to...

In Nyae Nyae, water often remains in open pans. Sometimes if the rains have been heavy, water stays in these pans, like small lakes, all year. In...

Investigation of a Hit and Run follows two officers as they investigate a hit-and-run accident from initial reports to the questioning of witnesses...

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first...

This film, shot in 1952-53, documents the scarification ceremony called "marking" which was traditionally held for Ju/'hoan boys after they had...

Women from three separate Ju/'hoan bands have gathered at a mangetti grove at !O to play an intense game in which under-tones of social and personal...

Follows police patrol cars 901 and 904 as they ply the streets of Pittsburgh, responding to diverse situations.

An unemployed woman who has been living in her car is questioned by the police. They offer her advice and finally take her to the Salvation Army.

The police, looking for a suspect, question the wrong youth.

/Gunda, a young man (who later marries N!ai), pretends to be a lion. He is "hunted" and "killed" by a group of boys.

This film depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great-uncle /Ti!kay. The two share a "joking relationship,"...

In this film, an argument arises between two bands when an antelope killed by a hunter from one band is found and distributed by a man from another...

Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In...

Between 1950 and 1958, John Marshall made four expeditions to film the Ju/'hoansi (a group of !Kung Bushmen) of the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia (then...