John Marshall Movies

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...

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

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.

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

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.

An installment in the Pittsburgh Police series. A number of short sequences show some of the events and people in the daily lives of several...

Pioneering ethnographic filmmaker John Marshall casts an eye on the inner workings of a Pittsburgh police station, capturing law enforcement’s...

The once thriving industrial town of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Merrimack River now resembles, in the words of one of the film's subjects, "a...

This film, shot in 1952-53, documents the scarification ceremony called "marking" which was traditionally held for Ju/'hoan boys after they had...

In this film, an argument arises between two bands when an antelope killed by a hunter from one band is found and distributed by a man from another...

In Nyae Nyae, water often remains in open pans. Sometimes if the rains have been heavy, water stays in these pans, like small lakes, all year. In...

/Gunda, a young man (who later marries N!ai), pretends to be a lion. He is "hunted" and "killed" by a group of boys.

Between 1950 and 1958, John Marshall made four expeditions to film the Ju/'hoansi (a group of !Kung Bushmen) of the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia (then...

Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance,...