Movies and TvShows featuring "tribal-elder" theme.

Hyena Road follows a group of Canadian soldiers as they navigate the complexities of war in Afghanistan, facing ambushes, improvised explosive devices, and the challenges of building a road in hostile territory. The film explores themes of imperialism, tribal dynamics, and the personal relationships forged on the battlefield.

Thunderheart is a crime mystery thriller movie set in a Native American reservation. It follows an FBI agent who is sent to investigate a murder on the reservation, uncovering a web of corruption and conspiracy. As he delves deeper into the case, he must navigate the tensions and complexities of the reservation community while trying to solve the crime.

"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an incredible glimpse into a rarely seen and scarcely understood tribal culture whose entire story of creation revolves around whales and has endured for centuries. The film passionately explores the connection between the subtle elegance of these “mothers of the sea” and ancient civilizations around the world whose culture and very existence is based on whales. Intertwining incredible underwater footage with ancient legend, whaledreamers examines the complex past and the possibly dire future of human civilization. Told with moving optimism and spiritual strength, it is a clarion call encouraging humanity’s reconnection to the profound beauty of the natural world and is an appeal to embrace all living beings thereby creating the unity and peace which the Earth itself can bring.

An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.

In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.

Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. On an almost deserted highway, two Israeli truckers strike a Bedouin lad accidentally. Before they can flee, the boy's people appear and circle the truckers. Retribution? In a tent, elders judge a woman seeking divorce; she wants to leave with her young daughters. They deny the suit. That night she gathers her girls and runs. Her husband pursues her. The Bedouin maid of a married Israeli hot-house farmer is discovered in adultery; with her life in danger, she seeks protection from her lover. He turns her away and involves a Bedouin farmhand in disposing of her. What tribal justice awaits?

In 1940 and 1942 well-known Australian anthropologist C P Mountford made scientific expeditions into central Australia for the University of Adelaide. He travelled in desert country to the west and southwest of Alice Springs, particularly around Haasts Bluff area, and photographed material which, in 1946 he edited into two films, Walkabout and Tjurunga.