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Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed (1996)
Directed by Alan Berliner
Documentary, TV Movie · 1h 26m
A documentary on the influential anthropologist Margaret Mead. Using never-before-seen archival footage, stills, interviews and dramatic re-creations, it shows the journey of how Mead became a scientist, adventurer, and international celebrity. As a true pioneer of cultural anthropology, her findings and ideas shaped how we think about ourselves.
Cast
Margaret Mead
Self (archive footage)
C
Christine Ward Gailey
Self
N
Nancy C. Lutkehaus
Self
Y
Yolanda Moses
Self
M
Mary Catherine Bateson
Self
R
Roy A. Rappaport
Self
L
Luther S. Cressman
Self
N
Nancy Marchand
Narrator
G
Gregory Bateson
Self (archival footage)
J
Julie Boyd
Margaret Mead
M
Miriam Healy-Louie
Ruth Benedict
C
Christopher Coucill
Gregory Bateson
Crew
- Director
- Alan Berliner
- Writer
- Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Robert Seidman
- Director of Photography
- Neil Smith
- Original Music Composer
- Jeffrey Levine
- Editor
- Alan Berliner, Joëlle Schon
- Producer
- Gail Jansen
Details
- Release date
- 1996-01-01
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Documentary, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America