Location: China Length: 23 min
Modernization poses a serious threat to China’s cultural heritage. In three chapters and one bonus feature, Jonah Kessel’s film details this threat to Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods, which date to medieval times…
Location: Canada Length: 9 min
The fascinating exhibit, “The Warrior Emperor and the Terracotta Army,” told the story of the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang…
Location: Italy Length: 10 min
In November 2010, Video News host Rick Pettigrew visited Italy for the Borsa tourism trade show. When he returned, he filed this video report on places he visited. Among the sites that he saw and described in Rome were the Colosseum, the Palatine Hill, the Forum and the Pantheon…
Location: Jordan Length: 14 min
Tall Hisban is the longest continuously excavated archaeological site in Jordan. This film presents two intertwined stories: the story of the comings and goings of many empires over the past three millennia and the story of how the local population has survived under this long series of power shifts…
Location: UK Length: 6 min
The Thames Discovery Programme documents and protects the longest open-air archaeological site in London: the banks of the Thames River, largely open to the public…
Location: Atafu, Polynesia Length: 14 min
Archaeologists from New Zealand come to the small Pacific island of Atafu to excavate and live among the native Polynesian people. Their project is called “Human Ecology in Tokelau.”...
Location: Flordia Length: 29 min
The Galilee Cemetery dates back to Sarasota’s early days, but the passage of time has not been kind. After many years of neglect, the Galilee Cemetery Task Force organized a clean-up campaign, created a more appealing entrance and recruited New College of Florida Professor Dr. Uzi Baram to document the lives of the interred…
Location: Arizona, United States Length: 13 min
The Hopi Tribe and the USDA Forest Service are collaborating to protect some remarkable rock art panels in northern Arizona at a place in Kanab Creek Wilderness called Snake Gulch…
Location: Greece Length: 6 min
Produced by the Spanish multimedia company, Balawat, this short animated film is the story of Achilles. His mother, Thetis, to protect him from harm submerges him in the River Styx in order to make him invulnerable…
Location: Peru Length: 6 min
Mochican iconography comes to life in this animated film, which portrays a ceremony of sacrifice carried out by the Moche culture in coastal Peru between A.D. 100 and 800…