Congo in Four Acts

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. In 1960, the UN became...

A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from...

As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, the Johnsons describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South...

Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the...

John Bishop encounters one of the most endangered animals on Earth, and discovers they and his family have more in common than he ever imagined....

Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.

Short ethnographic documentary showing a leopard dance based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien...

Short ethnographic documentary showing some everyday life scenes based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by...

Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover “lost”...

In urban America, the bush of Africa, the war zone of the Congo, and in closed nations there are women who are living outside their own cultures,...