John Marshall Movies

A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and...

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of...

An Argument About a Marriage raises questions about the impact of European farms on the economic and the social life of the Ju/'hoansi; about the...

This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in...

Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In...

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first...

A suburban couple calls the police to intervene after being harassed by a youth.

This film treats the problem of "loitering." In a number of sequences, police warn youths, police administrators discuss enforcement of loitering...

The police, looking for a suspect, question the wrong youth.

An unemployed woman who has been living in her car is questioned by the police. They offer her advice and finally take her to the Salvation Army.

This short film shows a family's attempt to resolve a dispute among themselves over a brother's damaged car, after the police have been called to...

A man arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest tells his story in night court.

This film consists of several sequences related to arrests after street fights involving policemen, and discussions of the incidents by the police in...

A customer tries to explain to police why he feels he has been cheated out of an exhaust system by a garage owner.

Investigation of a Hit and Run follows two officers as they investigate a hit-and-run accident from initial reports to the questioning of witnesses...

This film focuses on a black burglary suspect who, during interrogation by police offers his services as an "undercover" informant - providing the...

This film consists of sequences from the Pittsburgh Police footage intercut with a panel discussion moderated by Professor James Vorenberg of Harvard...

Policemen intervene when a woman calls to complain that her boyfriend stole forty dollars. The argument soon escalates as the man refuses to admit...

Police search for drugs in a house where they arrest a group of boys who return from a basketball game and are accused of having a loud party and...

Follows police patrol cars 901 and 904 as they ply the streets of Pittsburgh, responding to diverse situations.