Minority Pastime - A Letter To David Cameron

Hunting the Panther

September 1909 •French

A hunter and his native helpers set up a trap, then taunt and shoot a panther. Next we see the locals skin the animal.

Blue Water, White Death

March 1971 •English

Peter Gimbel and a team of photographers set out on an expedition to find and film, for the very first time, Carcharodon carcharias—the Great White Shark. The expedition lasted over nine months and took the team from Durban, South Africa, across the Indian Ocean, and finally to southern Australia.

Wild Boar Hunt

January 1940 •English

This short film showcases the skills of Howard Hill, known as the "World's Greatest Archer".

Missing 411: The U.F.O. Connection

September 2023 •English

In Missing 411: The UFO Connection, David Paulides continues the story of people who vanish in the wild without a trace. In his third documentary, David reveals the first evidence documenting a link between UFOs and missing people.

The Hunter's Son

April 2023 •French

Samir hardly knows his father. Hoping to become closer with him, he decides to accompany a hunter on a expedition in the mountains.

Duck Hunters' Paradise

January 1933 •English

This short follows two duck hunters in the Sacramento River Valley.

The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story

October 2000 •English

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

Shutter Shooter

September 2023 •Spanish

Etienne-Jules Marey, a French inventor who turned a gun into a camera. A hand-drawn hunter whose weapon, instead of firing ammunition, shoots photographs. Carlos, a Mexican wildlife photographer who used to be a real life hunter until he chose to get rid of all his guns. All come together in this poetic yet approachable animated documentary short film.

The Rundown

September 2003 •English

When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.

A Sound of Thunder

May 2005 •English

When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.

Open Season

September 2006 •English

Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.

10,000 BC

March 2008 •English

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

La amistad es algo maravilloso

March 2010 •Spanish

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

September 2005 •English

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

Halali oder Der Schuß ins Brötchen

April 1995 •German

The Night of the Grizzly

April 1966 •English

Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle on some land left him by a relative. He faces opposition both from a neighbor who wants that land for his own sons, and from a grizzly bear nicknamed "Satan" who keeps killing Cole's livestock.

Lammbock

August 2001 •German

Stefan and Kai run a thriving business: a home-grown cannabis trade disguised as a pizza delivery service. For now they just have to fight aphids.

Claws

January 1977 •English

A grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters in one year goes on a killing spree in the woods, taking revenge on humans as a whole. Jason and Chris Monroe, an estranged husband and wife, pursue the bear after it kills their only son, Buck.

It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown

September 1988 •English

Spike waves to a young woman driving a red pickup truck through the desert of Needles, California every day; it is the highlight of his day. In this combined animated and live-action special, we meet an aerobics instructor, Jenny, who wants to be a big city jazz dancer. She and Spike drive around looking at the desert scenery and spending some time at a roller rink. However, when Spike is accidentally thrown out of the skating rink he runs off and is pursued by people on a nighttime coyote hunt.

The Shape of the Woods

November 2021 •Spanish

Silvia and Andrés, two siblings who live with their grandfather in a house in the middle of the forest, unleash the wrath of a dark entity that will relentlessly pursue them until it catches them, during the course of one night. The children must use the entity's weaknesses to survive until dawn and get rid of the curse.