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Documentaries about cultures around the world, including human rights

The Boy Who Lived Before

Posted on December 9, 2011October 22, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

Film about a boy in Scotland who can remember with uncanny accuracy the details of a previous life and his visit to his old ‘home’.

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Sikkim (1971) – A Film by Satyajit Ray

Posted on October 28, 2011May 27, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

Here is a wonderful film by one of my favorite film-makers, Satyajit Ray, about the land, people and culture of Sikkim, made in 1971 while Sikkim was still a sovereign state.

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The Genius of Photography 6: Snap Judgements

Posted on September 30, 2011March 20, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

The sixth episode in this series looks at the way photography has been commodified, just like modern art in general has.

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The Genius of Photography 4: Paper Movies

Posted on September 23, 2011March 20, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

This week’s episode looks at the way photographers found their own terrain on the streets of the cities, the highways and beaches of the post-war world.

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The Genius of Photography 3: Right Time, Right Place

Posted on September 16, 2011March 20, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

This week’s episode is about the evolution of photojournalism, from its beginnings with the Frenchman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the great photographers of the 20th century, up and to the coverage of the aftermath of 9/11.

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We, featuring the words of Arundhati Roy

Posted on September 10, 2011October 20, 2023 by Dharma Documentaries

This is a ‘must see’ 64 minute documentary film. The film examines the widely unregarded worlds of Anthropology and Geopolitics in a very dynamic manner, and is probably stylistically quite unlike any documentary that you have previously seen.

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The Genius of Photography 2: Documents for Artists

Posted on September 9, 2011March 20, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

The second documentary in this BBC series examines the various movements that arose in photography in the first half of the 20th century by focusing on some of the representative workers in the field.

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The Genius of Photography 1: Fixing the Shadows

Posted on September 2, 2011March 19, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

This is the first in a series of documentaries tracing the evolution and the various uses of photography, and how it has changed the way we see the world, with some wonderful early examples of the technique.

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Buddha With A Thousand Hands (2008)

Posted on August 20, 2011March 4, 2025 by Dharma Documentaries

Video of the China Disabled Peoples Performance Art Troupe, with their lead dancer, Tai Lihua, performing the famous Buddha with a Thousand Hands dance, recorded for German TV in 2008.

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The Day India Burned: Partition

Posted on August 12, 2011March 4, 2025 by Dharma Documentaries

This documentary is about the partition of India, one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in modern times, as peoples were divided along communal and religious lines, and turned against each other in a fury of violence.

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