Ethnoscope's Films

Warriors of the Sun

• Documentary
• Feature

The 2000 year-old Los Voladores (flyers) ritual is still performed today by the Totonacs of East Central Mexico. The ritual is sacred to Quetzalcoatl,...

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Viva Mi Tierra Caliente

• Documentary
• Short

One of the least known but most extraordinary musical regions of Mexico is the Tierra Caliente - the hotlands - in Guerrero & Michoacan states. Ju...

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A Defender of His People

• Documentary
• Feature

The Nahua indigenous community of Tepoztlán, in the valley of Morelos just south of Mexico City, is one of the most famous towns in Mexico. Because it...

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A Journey to the Butterflies

• Documentary
• Short

Come with Deborah Welker as she visits the famed Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Mexico.

We see the Monarchs leave their clusters as the sun warms ...

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Along the Erie Canal

• Documentary
• Short

From Albany to Buffalo, and from 1825 into the 21st Century, the Erie Canal has made American history. Tom Grasso, President of the NY State Canal Soc...

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Carrousel Menagerie

• Documentary
• Short

Carrousel Menagerie explores the superb carousels of yesteryear and the people who preserve their heritage today. At the Herschel Carrousel Museum, we...

2

Democracia Indígena

• Documentary
• Short

Democracia Indígena examines the rights revolution of Indian Mexico through the municipal elections in Huehuetla, Puebla. In 1989, the Huehuetla Toton...

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Inside Afghanistan

• Documentary
• Feature

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 - th...

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Muxes

• Documentary
• Feature

Among the Zapotec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico, boy babies who are born in a certain position, or little boys who prefer to play with girls, are raised a...

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The Eagle's Children

• Documentary
• Short

"La Danza de la Conquista del Gran Tenochtitlan", also known as "Los Concheros", "Danza Azteca", & "Danza Chich...

2

The Language of Seeds

• Documentary
• Short

Every year, the market vendors of Tepoztlán create an amazing arch, made entirely of 85 different varieties of edible seeds, on the gateway to the par...

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Stoney Knows How

• Documentary
• Short

An extended interview with 'Stoney' St. Clair, an ebullient little man with the gift of gab of a circus tout and a fund of bizarre stories about tatto...

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The Black Tulip

• Documentary
• Short

The Black Tulip is what the "Afgantsi" - the Soviet soldiers who fought in Afghanistan - call the plane that carried the bod...

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The Tree of Knowledge

• Documentary
• Short

Set in Huehuetla, Puebla, a Totonac Indian community in East Central Mexico, The Tree of Knowledge contrasts two systems of education. The public scho...

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The Tree of Life

• Documentary
• Short

"Los Voladores" (the Flyers) is a 1500 year-old rite sacred to Quetzalcoatl, the Morning Star. From its origins on the Gulf coast of Mexico,...

2

Cumbre Tajín

• Documentary
• Feature

Every year in late March there is an amazing festival in central Veracruz state near the ancient pre-hispanic ruins of El Tajin, once the ancient capi...

4

Pancho Villa

• Documentary
• Feature

On the same day that the troops of Pancho Villa attacked the village of Colombus, constituting the first invasion of the United States by a Latin Amer...

2

Narco-Mania!

• Comedy
• Short

Meet four agents from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, and the women who chase them! They lost their children, husbands, siblings and parents because ...

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Colombia One

• Documentary
• Feature

The first Peace Corps group, 1961-63

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The New Mexico Chile FIlm

• Documentary
• Short

Chile peppers are a common symbol of the unique New Mexico culture - a cuisine and a tradition shared by the three cultural groups of the state - Indi...

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