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Bob Leitzel auctioning a sewing machine while antique dealer. Joe Herman, and others watch.

The DER catalog is one of the most historically important resources of ethnographic and cross-cultural film in the world today. With over 850 titles, spanning nearly 100 years, the catalog serves as a …

Jean Rouch - Premier Film now available in English, from DER The director, Dominique Dubosc, gives Jean Rouch the opportunity to improvise a new commentary for his first film made in 1947, In the …

Jean Rouch’s prolific film career began in French West Africa, where he worked as a civil engineer during World War II, supervising road and bridge construction. Previously, in Paris, he had attended …

In 1971, DER incorporated as Documentary Educational Resources, Inc. From 1968 to 1975 he traveled deep into the rainforest of South America with anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon to live with, work …

FILMS FROM DER The Professional Foreigner: Asen Balikci and Visual Ethnography 2009, Afghanistan

Check out a sneak preview of the work in progress! Every film in the DER collection offers an opportunity to fuel our understanding and imagination of who we are, where we have come from, and …