John Marshall Movies

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...

This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

This film illustrates the field techniques used by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan in collaboration with...

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...

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

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

This film consists of sequences from the Pittsburgh Police footage intercut with a panel discussion moderated by Professor James Vorenberg of Harvard...

This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana.

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.

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

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

Police search for drugs in a house where they arrest a group of boys who return from a basketball game and are accused of having a loud party and...