The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story

Name: The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 29, 2000
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 71

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Release Date: September 29, 2000

Summary: This documentary by Craig and Damon Foster focuses on the surviving San bushmen in the central Kalahari.

Director: Craig Foster and Damon Foster

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 90 min

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Shawn Levy

An unforgettable movie with a message that is likely to add wrinkles to your conception of what it means to be a good steward of the Earth. Read full review

Lawrence Van Gelder

In a very real way, The Great Dance constitutes an act of preservation and a requiem. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

The labor of love of South African brothers Craig and Damon Foster, who directed and photographed this intriguing documentary. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Never shies away from either the beauty or the cruelty of the hunt. Read full review

Edward Crouse

A grassroots refutation of Discovery Channel/National Geographic dispassion, The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story is hot and sweaty with fetching curves. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

For the first time anywhere, filmmaking brothers Craig and Damon Foster capture this rare event as it happens, and it's something to see. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Moreover, what the film lacks in temporal credibility, it amply makes up for in sheer rawness -- the rawness being literal. Read full review

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