Documentary Educational Resources

Documentary Educational Resources

Documentary Educational Resources ("DER") is a US non-profit producer and distributor of film and video in anthropology and ethnology.

It was founded in 1968 by independent filmmakers John Marshall and Timothy Asch and is based in Watertown, Massachusetts. Its mission is "to cultivate community engagement with the peoples and cultures of the world in which we live through media that is both entertaining and educational"[1].

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