John Marshall Movies

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...

Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance,...

/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 consists of several sequences related to arrests after street fights involving policemen, and discussions of the incidents by the police in...

FIRST FILM was edited and narrated by Lorna Marshall and is comprised of footage shot in 1951 on the second Marshall family expedition to the...

Pioneering ethnographic filmmaker John Marshall casts an eye on the inner workings of a Pittsburgh police station, capturing law enforcement’s...

The once thriving industrial town of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Merrimack River now resembles, in the words of one of the film's subjects, "a...

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

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...

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...

This film treats the problem of "loitering." In a number of sequences, police warn youths, police administrators discuss enforcement of loitering...

Policemen intervene when a woman calls to complain that her boyfriend stole forty dollars. The argument soon escalates as the man refuses to admit...

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

An installment in the Pittsburgh Police series. A number of short sequences show some of the events and people in the daily lives of several...

In this film a five-year-old named Debe refuses to let his mother Di!ai go gathering without him. Di!ai appeals to her daughter N!ai to entertain the...

A suburban couple calls the police to intervene after being harassed by a youth.

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

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.

A man arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest tells his story in night court.