Anthropology and films

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Here you have some films that we selected, enjoy it!

L’Odyssée de l’espèce (A Species Odyssey)

A French documentary directed by Jacques Malaterre in 2003, about the origins of Mankind from the moment when the first primate stood up on their hind legs until it becomes a modern Man.

La guerre du feu (Quest for Fire)

A Jean-Jacques Annaud film, French, from 1981.

The film takes place in prehistoric time when three prehistoric tribesmen search for a new fire source.

Inherit the Wind

Inherit the wind is a film that was directed in 1960 by Stanley Kramer and is based on a real-life case in1925, when two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

2001: A Space Odyssey

A film from 1968, directed by the famous Stanley Kubrick.

In this film humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

*Our blog header image is from this film!!

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

A film directed by Rupert Wyatt in 2011.

A biotechnology company is testing some drugs with chimpanzees to find a cure for brain illnesses such as Alzheimer, however, their experiments failed and this compound gives rise to a super-intelligent chimp.

Planet of the Apes

Here you have an American science fiction film from 1968 directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
An astronaut crew crash on a mysterious planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species while humans are the oppressed.