Ethnographic Video Online, Volume I-II: Foundational FilmsThis link opens in a new windowEthnographic Video Online, Vol. I-II: Foundational Films contains classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent, providing teachers visual support to introduce and contextualize hundreds of cultural groups and practices around the world.
Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
Ethnographic Video Online, Volume III: Indigenous VoicesThis link opens in a new windowEthnographic Video Online, Vol. III: Indigenous Voices contains documentaries, feature films and shorts made by and for indigenous people and communities. Topics are simultaneously local and global, with particular emphasis on the human effects of climate change, sustainability, indigenous and local ways of interpreting history, cultural change, and traditional knowledge and storytelling.
Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
Ethnographic Video Online, Volume IV: Festivals and ArchivesThis link opens in a new windowEthnographic Video Online, Vol. IV: Festivals and Archives contains award-winning titles from contemporary ethnographic film festivals. The collection also includes field recordings and edited films by students and faculty from universities and institutions around the world, including Berkeley Media and Manchester's Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology.
Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
Ethnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching EditionThis link opens in a new windowEthnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition contains a curriculum-aligned collection of videos and segments curated to support the teaching of introductory anthropology courses. Each video and segment within this collection are accompanied by a teaching guide providing background information, lesson plans, and classroom exercises and activities.
Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
Socialism on Film (AM Explorer)Socialism on Film is an impressive collection of documentaries, newsreels and features that reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British and Latin American filmmakers. It ranges from the early twentieth century to the 1980s and examines the themes of War & Revolution, News & Current Affairs plus Culture & Society
Academic Video OnlineThis link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online delivers more than 67,000 titles spanning a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. It includes documentaries, films, demonstrations, and other content types. Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
KanopyThis link opens in a new windowKanopy is a provider of documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases available as streaming video. Clips from the videos can be embedded in presentations or shown in class. Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
BU Libraries Search (BULS)This link opens in a new windowBU Libraries Search provides a single place to search for a wide variety of academic material provided by the library. The material covered by the search includes books, journals, scores, video and audio recordings, and other physical items held by the library. The search also covers ebooks and ejournals owned by the library, as well as online material provided by the library from a variety of sources.
Afghan Media Resource CenterThe Afghan Media Resource Center collection includes audio, video and photographic footage, content and culturally unique materials on Afghanistan.
Leaving Afghanistan (streaming, Academic Video Online)Investigating the consequences of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. With exclusive access to a militant wing of the Taliban, and the story of Iran’s growing influence across the country.
Afghan Star (streaming, Kanopy)Can a reality TV series unite the war- and strife-ravaged nation of Afghanistan? Well, the "American Idol"-like show "Afghan Star" has helped do so since 2005, and this acclaimed documentary follows the four finalists--two of them women who perform in spite of Taliban pressure and death threats--of the 2008 season, revealing how the show's popularity brings together the country's fragmented society.
Afghanistan: An Afghan Village (streaming, Kanopy)A collage of daily life in Aq Kupruk builds from the single voice that calls the townspeople to prayer, the brisk exchange of the baazar, communal labor in the fields, and the uninhibited sports and entertainment of rural Afghans. The theme of the film focuses on rural society. The film and accompaning instructor notes explore concepts of development, modernization, environmental equilibrium, and especially change, identifying change agents, and analyzing barries and stimulants to change.
Afghan Ladies' Driving School (streaming, Academic Video Online)Mr Mamozai's Driving School is the first driving school in Kabul to teach both men and women how to drive. And probably the only driving school for women in the world that is run by men who don't really think women should drive at all. But then the driving instructors at Mr Mamozai's are all ex-Taliban, so clearly this is no ordinary driving school.
Love marriage in Kabul (streaming, Academic Video Online)A truly incredible documentary relating a truly incredible story, Love and Marriage in Kabul captures the seemingly impossible quest to challenge centuries-old traditions and values to make a love marriage happen in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan through Women's Eyes (streaming, Academic Video Online)Afghanistan through Women's Eyes offers an intimate portrait of Afghanistan's silenced women as we see the conflict and history of Afghanistan through their eyes. The film visits the secret schools, orphanages and clinics of RAWA, the Revolutionary Afghan Women's Association, a feminist group that has been working both inside and outside of Afghanistan for many years, struggling for women's rights. Their revolution is through ideas, education and health, and they will not let their voices go unheard.
Prisoners of the Afghan Pamir (streaming, Ethnographic Video Online)Wakhan in the Pamir region of Eastern Afghanistan is home to the last Kyrgyz nomads who live in the most isolated high-altitude community on the planet. Isolated in their mountain camps at 4300 meters above sea level, only 1200 of them survive as best they can.
Frontline: The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan (streaming, PBS)In Afghanistan today an ancient tradition has re-emerged, it's called Bacha Bazi, translated literally as, boy play. Boys, some as young as eleven, are dressed in woman's clothes, taught to sing and dance for the entertainment of male audiences, and then sold to the highest bidder or traded among the men for sex. The Afghan authorities responsible for stopping these crimes are sometimes themselves complicit in the practice.
Inside Afghanistan (streaming, Ethnographic Video Online)Shot in Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, Spinbuldak, and the Afghan countryside in 1987, this film is a look at the *other* side of the war in Afghanistan - the Communist government and its supporters.
Making of the Afghan Girl (streaming, Academic Video Online)This captivating documentary takes us behind the scenes to meet the team responsible for one of National Geographic's most exclusive interviews to date. In 1985 the front cover image of the Afghan Girl with haunting green eyes became a talking point the world over
Back to Nadia Becoming a "Boy" for Survival in Afghanistan (streaming, Academic Video Online)Returning from the hospital after the suicide bombing that killed her brother, eleven-year-old Nadia has an epiphany: she will pretend to be a boy, assuming her brother's identity and name in order to support her family. In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan where women and girls are not allowed to work outside the home, Nadia spends eleven years masquerading as her brother Esmerai before ultimately escaping to Europe and reclaiming her identity as a female. 'Back to Nadia' is the fascinating story of gender and personal transformation in a society that leaves women with few options for freedom and autonomy.
Ustad Rahim (streaming, Academic Video Online)Shot in the city of Heart, western Afghanistan 1994, in the period between the fall of the last leftist government and the coming of the Taliban, this is a portrait film of an outstanding musician, Ustad Rahim Khushnawaz. He was a master of the Afghan rubab, a double-chambered plucked lute with sympathetic strings. Using the observational cinema style the film shows Ustad Rahim in various contexts.
Prayers of a Warlord (streaming, Academic Video Online)For the first time a warlord opens his doors and takes us on an intimate tour to the heart of the Afghan feudal system. Mamour Hasan governs 50,000 people in Dash-Te-Qalah, in the north east corner of Afghanistan. They are largely Tajik and Pashtun. Gray bearded and mild mannered, with an army 10,000 strong, his authority is unchallenged
The Youth of Afghanistan (AM Explorer)A discussion of youth in war-torn Afghanistan. Footage includes scenes of combat, Afghan and Soviet soldiers freeing hostages, casualties of the civil war, the clearing of mine fields (pointing out mines manufactured in France, Britain and Italy) and economic backwardness. The film also highlights the new role of women since the 1978 Revolution, science and technology training, and an orphanage.
Conspiracy Against the Republic (AM Explorer)A fascinating Soviet account of the 1978 Communist revolution in Afghanistan and the struggle that followed against the counter-revolutionary forces, stressing the atrocities committed by the reactionaries. Includes scenes depicting poor conditions under General Mohammed Dauod, the April Revolution 1978, the abolition of debts, distribution of land and adult literacy campaigns. Later footage includes guerrilla training camps and bombings in Kabul.
The Road Across the Hindu Kush (AM Explorer)A documentary feature on the construction of the Salang Pass of the Hindu Kush mountain range, including footage of a ceremony upon the completion of the road, with the King of Afghanistan - Mohammed Zahir Shah - and Soviet ambassadors in attendance.
The Truth About the April Revolution (AM Explorer)A Soviet account of the 1978 April Revolution (the Saur Revolution) during which the communists took power in Afghanistan. Afghanistan under Soviet rule is compared to the poverty, drought and hard conditions in the country before 1978, in an attempt to counter Western claims that the Soviet Union was suppressing the Afghan people.
The Boxing Girls of Kabul (National Film Board of Canada)In this feature documentary, a remarkable group of young Afghan women dream of representing their country as boxers at the 2012 Olympics, embarking on a journey of both personal and political transformation.
Good Morning, Kandahar (National Film Board of Canada)Ariel Nasr's documentary gives voice to the complex dilemmas faced by contemporary Afghanis under Canadian intervention. The film introduces us to young Afghan-Canadians torn between a deep desire to help Afghanistan and a fear that things will never change. Good Morning Kandahar asks whether Canada's mission in Afghanistan is failing.
The Sweetest Embrace: Return to Afghanistan (National Film Board of Canada)This full-length documentary tells the story of 2 Afghans who return to Afghanistan in search of their families after a 16-year exile. Like many Afghan children, Soorgul and Amir were sent to Tajikistan during the Soviet occupation of their country. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the civil wars that broke out on both sides of the border left the children stranded, unable to leave the country until Canada accepted them as refugees.
The Van Doos in Afghanistan (National Film Board of Canada)In this documentary, we hear directly from francophone soldiers serving in the Royal 22e Régiment (known in English as “Van Doos”) who were filmed in the field in March 2011, during their deployment to Afghanistan. They speak simply and directly about their work, whether on patrol or performing their duties at the base. The film's images and interviews bring home the complexity of the issues on the ground and shed light on the little-understood experiences of the men and women who served in Afghanistan.
Daughters of Afghanistan (dvd)Canadian journalist and UNICEF representative Sally Armstrong exposes the struggle for women's rights in post-Taliban Afghanistan in this documentary by Robin Benger. Armstrong follows four women and one girl from diverse backgrounds - a doctor and former Deputy Prime Minister, a mother struggling to provide for her children, a school principal, a housewife and a child who lost her youth to war, as they confront tremendous obstacles in their pursuit of liberation
Flee (streaming, Academic Video Online)Flee tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.
The Taliban Takes Afghanistan (The Brookings Institute)On this episode, in the wake of the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan, a discussion of the forces and issues that have shaped Afghanistan over the last two decades and will continue to do so with Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in Foreign Policy and the Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at Brookings,. Her insights on what has happened in Afghanistan help make sense of an incredibly complex situation and offer some ideas of what to expect moving forward. This