John Marshall Movies

This important film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater,...

An unemployed woman who has been living in her car is questioned by the police. They offer her advice and finally take her to the Salvation Army.

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...

Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree.

In each scene, police respond to a different domestic abuse calls.

This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana.

This film focuses on a black burglary suspect who, during interrogation by police offers his services as an "undercover" informant - providing the...

An ethnographic documentary following four Ju/’hoansi (!Kung) men during a multi-day giraffe hunt in the Kalahari Desert, filmed during the...

FIRST FILM was edited and narrated by Lorna Marshall and is comprised of footage shot in 1951 on the second Marshall family expedition to the...

A customer tries to explain to police why he feels he has been cheated out of an exhaust system by a garage owner.

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...

In Nyae Nyae, water often remains in open pans. Sometimes if the rains have been heavy, water stays in these pans, like small lakes, all year. In...

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

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...

Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In...

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

Follows police patrol cars 901 and 904 as they ply the streets of Pittsburgh, responding to diverse situations.

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

For thousands of years Ju/'hoansi have lived in the Nyae Nyae region in northeastern Namibia. In the 1950s, most Ju/'hoansi had been exterminated or...

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...