Movies and TvShows featuring "graves" theme.

Paleo anthropologist Lee Berger leads an expedition in South Africa to uncover the secrets of the world's oldest graveyard. They find evidence that a small-brained, ape-like creature, Homo Naledi, practiced complex burial rituals. The discovery challenges the current understanding of human origins and reveals a culture capable of spirituality and creative impulses.

Five Bloody Graves is a gritty revenge western set in the Arizona Territory. A former soldier is determined to seek revenge against the men who raped and murdered his wife. Along the way, he encounters Apache Indians, catfights, and a bloody showdown in Tombstone, Arizona.

A stranger comes to a peaceful village bearing gifts that bear a terrible price.

On the island where the filmmaker’s grandmother is buried, it is the tradition of women to choose the image that will represent them on their grave after they are gone. As director Sara Jurinčić and her mother travel to this island, we enter a world without men, where female ancestors take centre stage. This beautifully crafted film, both playful and serious, takes us on a cinematic odyssey to hear what the ancestors are whispering from their silent portraits.

This documentary deals with cases of grave recycling, cemetery abandonment, and the development of homes, stores, and businesses over the top of old cemeteries, in many cases leaving the bodies in the ground and paving over them.