John Marshall Movies

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...

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...

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

Between 1950 and 1958, John Marshall made four expeditions to film the Ju/'hoansi (a group of !Kung Bushmen) of the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia (then...

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...

Ju/'hoan women often share an intimate sociability and spend many hours together discussing their lives, enjoying each other's company and children....

Women from three separate Ju/'hoan bands have gathered at a mangetti grove at !O to play an intense game in which under-tones of social and personal...

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first...

Pioneering ethnographic filmmaker John Marshall casts an eye on the inner workings of a Pittsburgh police station, capturing law enforcement’s...

An installment in the Pittsburgh Police series. A number of short sequences show some of the events and people in the daily lives of several...

A man arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest tells his story in night court.

The police, looking for a suspect, question the wrong youth.

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

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

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

This film, shot in 1952-53, documents the scarification ceremony called "marking" which was traditionally held for Ju/'hoan boys after they had...

An Argument About a Marriage raises questions about the impact of European farms on the economic and the social life of the Ju/'hoansi; about the...

This film depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great-uncle /Ti!kay. The two share a "joking relationship,"...

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