Apesar de confinado a uma cadeira de rodas, Jake Sully, um ex-marine, continua a ser um combatente. Assim, é recrutado para uma missão a Pandora, um corpo celeste que orbita um enorme planeta gasoso, para explorar um mineral alternativo chamado Unobtainium, usado na Terra como recurso energético. Porém, devido ao facto de a atmosfera de Pandora ser altamente tóxica para os humanos, é usado um programa de avatares híbridos, que possibilita a transferência da mente de qualquer humano para um corpo nativo.
Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.
An elderly father and his two children, survive by harvesting salt from the sea. After the father dies, they live alone. Isolated from the outside world they become increasingly distanced, whilst their lust starts to blossom. Their lives get a lot harder. The brutal reality of harvesting sea salt coincides with their blossoming sexuality. Their lives of solitude drive them further apart whilst awakening lust makes itself known.
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller.
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
Dotado de poderes mágicos, um jovem parte em busca de seu tio para pedir ajuda em uma luta contra seu pai, um feiticeiro.
In his now well-known role of narrator of wildlife expeditions, Attenborough accompanies a government-sponsored trek into the central New Guinea highlands to make contact with a group of natives never before seen by Europeans.
David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part is taken up by talks between the Turkana people. As one of the first ethnographic documentaries "A Wife Among Wives" subtitles these talks so that the viewer can get a better and probably more personal understanding of the life of the Turkana.
Wajan, the son of Nudonk, a witch, is beset with difficulties. His mother is in ill favor with the Balinese natives who want to get rid of her, and the hand of Sari, a native chieftain's daughter, will not be his until this is accomplished. How he manages to save his mother and also win Sari is unfolded in the film.
Intimate story of a Baka family living a traditional life in the rainforests of Cameroun.