Suggested Films for Anthropology Extra Credit
*indicates that Dr. DaGrossa has the film in her office -- you can borrow it for up to 5 days -- they are DVDs unless otherwise noted
NOTE: The WCC Library has many of these videos available for free loan!

300 (2007; Spartans battle at Thermopylae)
Altered States (1980; sci-fi about genetic regression; William Hurt, Drew Barrymore)
Angela’s Ashes
Apocalypse Now (based on Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness)
Apocalypto (2006)
Atanarjuat (“The Fast Runner”; Inuit)
Atomic Café (non-fiction; US and atomic bomb)
*Beautiful Boxer (Thailand, gender)
Beijing Bicycle
Bend It Like Beckham (UK, gender, UK Indians)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Borat (2006; mockumentary; US culture, stereotypes)
Bowling for Columbine (US, violence, fear)
Chocolat (2001, Cameroon, ethnic relations)
Chocolat (2001, rural France, social change)
The Constant Gardner
*Crash (US, race)
The Crying Game (VCR, 1992, Irish/English conflict, sex/gender)
The Devil's Miner (2005; modern world system; documentary of children working in the Bolivian silver mines)
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Taiwan)
End of the Spear
The Exonerated (2005, US law enforcement and courts)
*Fahrenheit 9/11
Full Metal Jacket
Georgia Rule (2007 - student recommendation)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (I, not II)
Hawaii's Last Queen
History Boys (2006)
Hotel Rwanda (Rwanda, Africa - war, ethnicity, international politics)
*Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
*Iron-Jawed Angels (US, early 1900s, gender, women's suffrage)
Jarhead
Jesus Christ Superstar
Koyaanisqatsi (“Life Out of Balance”)
The Land Has Eyes
Last Emperor (China)
Life and Debt (documentary; 86min; 2001; impact of the IMF, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank on Jamaica)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006; comedy)
Lost in Translation
Map of the Human Heart (1993; romantic adventure, WW2)
Mississippi Burning (racial conflict)
*Mississippi Masala (ethnicity, race, multi-cultural identity)
*Monsoon Wedding (2002, middle-class India, marriage)
*The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
*Nai: The Story of a !Kung Woman (!Kung San, division of labor, sex, family, birth)
*Once Were Warriors (Maori, culture change, domestic violence)
The Other Side of Heaven (2002, cultural adaptation)
*Outfoxed: Ruper Murdoch’s War on Journalism
Passion of the Christ (Christianity, religion)
*Rabbit Proof Fence (Australian Aborigines - discrimination)
A Raisin in the Sun
Ran (Akira Kurasawa, Japan)
Rapanui (1994)
Rashomon (middle ages Japan, Akira Kurasawa)
River Queen (2005, New Zealand, Maori-British conflict)
Road to Guantanamo (2006 docu-drama; war, ethnicity, religion, law)
Schindler’s List (WW2, genocide)
*The Serpent and the Rainbow (Haitian zombies; anthropological research)
Sin City Diary (Philippines, prostitution)
Supersize Me (US fast food industry/culture)
Tae Guk Gi (2004; “The Brotherhood of War; Korean)
(The) Thirteenth Warrior (1999 - please watch with a critical anthropological "eye")
*To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! (1995, US, transgenderism, regional cultural variation)
Transamerica (2005 - self-discovery, transgender, family dynamics)
V for Vendetta (2005)
*Walkabout (VCR, 1971, Australia, coming of age, Aborigines, urban life)
*WalMart - the high cost of low price (2005)
*Whale Rider (on Maori - culture change)