The Hunters

Year: 1957

Runtime: 72 mins

Language: English

Director: Robert Gardner

Documentary

The ethnographic film follows four !Kung (Ju/’hoansi) men as they pursue a giraffe across Namibia’s Kalahari Desert. Shot by John Marshall during a 1952‑53 Smithsonian‑Harvard Peabody expedition, it also portrays everyday !Kung life—family bonds, social gatherings, storytelling, plant‑gathering, and small‑game hunting—providing a vivid snapshot of their culture at that time.

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