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This Russian documentary offered tantalizing glimpses of Afghanistan, which in 1929 was still one of the few heavily-populated areas in the world where the residents continued to live as they did in the Middle Ages. A progressive new leader named Amnullah tries to "Westernize" the country, meeting plenty of resistance from native reactionaries.
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RU

The hunting party is filmed traversing across the edges of treacherous cliffs, one misstep away from certain death, but the height does not seem to bother these individuals who navigate the rock face with almost as much ease and grace as the markhor and bison they are tracking.

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Africa and Asia.