Summary
Margaret Mead is the best known anthropologist of all time. How can her legacy guide a species that today faces unprecedented changes to its environment? THE ANTHROPOLOGIST is a follow up to the Sundance hit and Emmy nominee THE LINGUISTS.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+35)
Critics 100Audiences 65GoodWatch 79
Tomatometer100%
Audience score74%
IMDb5.6
Running time
1 h 21 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −15 min on the typical 96
typical 9681Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
2016
June 1, 2016
10 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
SpanishMade in
Russia- United States
Kiribati
Peru
Directing · 3
- Seth Kramer Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
- Jeremy Newberger Director, Producer, Art Direction
- Daniel A. Miller Director, Writer, Producer
Camera · 1
- Roger Grange Director of Photography
Sound · 1
- Peter Rundquist Original Music Composer
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