John Marshall Movies

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...

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

Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance,...

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

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...

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...

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

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 treats the problem of "loitering." In a number of sequences, police warn youths, police administrators discuss enforcement of loitering...

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

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...

Investigation of a Hit and Run follows two officers as they investigate a hit-and-run accident from initial reports to the questioning of witnesses...

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

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

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.

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

This film consists of several sequences related to arrests after street fights involving policemen, and discussions of the incidents by the police in...

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...

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...

In this film a five-year-old named Debe refuses to let his mother Di!ai go gathering without him. Di!ai appeals to her daughter N!ai to entertain the...