Melanesian Films and Videos

For more information on these and other films about the Pacific Islands, try the Moving Images Website at the University of Hawai'i, Center for Pacific Islands Studies

A

• After the Mine Came In
• Angels of War
• Anthropology on Trial
• Are'are Music
• Arrows Against the Wind : a Land Beyond Production
• Axes and Are : Stone Tools of the Duna

B

• Balus
• Bathing Babies in Three Cultures
• Betelnut bisnis : a story from Papua New Guinea
• Black Harvest
• Black and white in Color
• Borderline PNG
• Bougainville : Our Island, Our Fight
• Bougainville : Australia & Papua New Guinea's Genocidal War
• Breaking Bows and Arrows
• Bridewealth for a Goddess

C

• Cannibal Tours
• The Carrot and the Stick : Developing Business in Papua New Guinea
• Chea's Great Kuarao
• Childhood Rivalry in Bali and New Guinea
• The Coconut Revolution
• Colonists for a Day
• Copra, Copper and Volcanoes ; Rasmussen's Charts ; Fly Low Land Short ; Coffee Marketing in PNG
• Cowboy and Maria in Town
• Cracks in the Mask
• Cultural performances 1989 Mt. Hagen Show

D

• Dance highlights from the Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts, Townsville, Australia, 1988
• Dani Houses
• Dani Sweet Potatoes
• Dead Birds
• A Death to Pay For
• Diamonds in the Sky ; Eater of Men ; Travelers in Time ; Butterflies of PNG
• The Drum and the Mask : Art and Rituals of the Peoples of Melanesia

F

• Eux et moi (Them and Me)
• An Evergreen Island
• Exploring Bensbach
• Faces of the spirits : the Sulka People of Papua New Guinea
• First Contact
• Firth on Firth : Reflections of an Anthropologist

G

• Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea
• Gogodala: A Cultural Revival?
• Goldmine in the Clouds
• The Gospel According to the Papuans
• Guadalcanal Diary
• Guardians of the Flutes : the Secrets of Male Initiation
• The Gulf of Papua : The Big River Adventure

H

• The Heirs of Lata : the Renewal of Polynesian Voyaging Traditions
• Her Name Came on Arrows : A Kinship Interview with the Baruya of New Guinea
• Highlands Trilogy : The Complete Collection
• The Hiri Tradition at Yule Island

I

• Ileksen
• In a Savage Land

J

• Joe Leahy's Neighbors
• John Frum and the Big death : WWII and the Pacific Islanders

K

• Kama Wosi: Music in the Trobriand Islands
• Kanaky au Pouvoir (Power to the Kanak people)
• Kawelka: Ongka's Big Moka
• Kava : the Drink of the Gods
• Keep the River on Your Right : a Modern Cannibal Tale
• Kinship and Descent : Part I
• Kiwai: Dugong Hunters of Daru
• Kula : Ring of Power

L

• Land Divers of Vanuatu
• Land of the Morning Star
• The Last Magician
• The Lau of Malaita
• Les Accords de Lifou

M

• Magical Curing
• Malangan Labadama: A Tribute to Buk-Buk
• Man Bilong Custom
• Man Without Pigs
• Marabe
• Maring in Motion: A Choreometic Analysis of Movement Style Among a New Guinea People
• Mountains of Gold : the People of Porgera
• My Father, My Country

N

• Namekas
• Narasirato : Pan pipers Solomon Islands
• The New Pacific
• The News Parade of the Year 1942
• Notes from Paradise

O

• Oddie in Paradise
• Oh, What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me!
• One People, One Soul

P

• Paikeda : Man in Stone
• Paroles d'ile : Deux Films de Nouvelle-Calédonie
• Patterns of Subsistence : the Food producers
• Papa bilong Chimbu
• Papua New Guinea Footage from Mondo Cane
• Papua New Guinea: Rapid deforestation & After the Gold Rush
• Papua New Guinea: The Asmat, the Dani and Korowai
• Pear Ta Ma 'on Maf (The land Has Eyes)
• The People of Porgera 1984
• Pig Tusks and Paper Money
• PNG Documentary
• Preparing to Dance

R

• Raskols
• Red Bowmen
• Ring of Fire
• The Rituals of the Asmat Tribe

S

• Seminaire œCuménique Sur les Accords de atignon et L'avenir du Peuple Kanak
• SenjÅ no onnatachi (Senso daughters : daughters of war)
• Shark callers of Kontu
• Since the Company Came
• Singsing Tumbuan
• Skull Art
• Songs of a Distant Jungle (Songs of a Distant Drum)
• Struggling for a Better Living : Squatters in Fiji
• Sugar Slaves
• Sur les Traces des Accords de Matignon

T

• Tahitian Fire Walk
• The Tailenders
• Tailler le Bambou
• Taking Pictures
• Tanim
• The Thin Red Line
• Tighten the Drums: Self Decoration Among the Enga
• Teenage Trek
• Tidikawa: At the Edge of Heaven
• To Find the Baruya Story: An Anthropologist at Work with a New Guinea Tribe
• To See or Not to See
• Trouble in Paradise
• Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism
• Trobriand Islanders: An Ethnographic Film (1952)
• Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea (1990)
• Tukana: Husat I Asua
• "Turnim hed" : courtship and music in Papua New Guinea

V

• Vaka Taumako : the First Voyage
• Vanuatu, Tanna
• Vanuatu, Le Peuple du Feu
• Voices of the Forest
• Vot Long Pati Ia!
• We Must Not Forget

W

• Wokabaut Bilong Tonten = Tonten's Travels

Y

• Yumi Yet