About: The American Museum of Natural History's Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the United States. The Festival screens documentaries that increase our understanding of the complexity and diversity of the peoples and cultures that populate our planet. The Festival has evolved with the times while maintaining its important history and has grown steadily to reflect the ever-evolving incarnations of storytelling, technology and growing access to communities near and far which are steeped in the documentary tradition. Encompassing a broad spectrum of non-narrative work the Mead presents the best in documentary, experimental films, animation, hybrid works, and more.