José Manuel Novoa

Chavín de Huantar: el teatro del Más Allá (2015)

The Moche Route (2014)

Starting from the colonial city of Trujillo, this documentary reveals natural and archeological features along the north coast of Peru, where the Moche culture thrived from the 1st Century BC to the 6th Century AD. ...

Millennial Peru: The Unexplored History (2014)

In the Formative Period 4,000 years before the Incas and the arrival of the Conquistadors, Peru's earliest civilizations - the Chavín, Caral, Ventarrón, Sechin, Cupisnique, and Cajamarca cultures - built centers of learning and technological achievements ...

La Joya and the Warriors in the Mist (2014)

A people who lived on the brink of the abyss and buried their dead on sheer cliffs, defying all logic. The Chachapoya culture flourished between 800 and 1500 AD in northern Peru, at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters. No one knows for sure whether the C ...

India, los peregrinos del Ganges (2013)

Tuareg, los guerreros de las dunas (2013)

The Celtic Legacy (2011)

The Celtic Legacy offers a trip back in time, from the Megalithic to Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula to discover the singular culture of the Castros in Galicia. Hair-rising landscapes, burial mounds, petroglyphs, fortified cities, lithic sculptures a ...

Guerreros de la sabana africana (2010)

Masai Mara, the traditional territory of the Masai tribe, divided between Kenya and Tanzania, is the setting for this documentary in which we approach a Manyata, a traditional Maasai dwelling to attend the ceremonies in which children become warriors. ...

La joya de Mekong (2010)

The Mekong River is the most important means of communication in Southeast Asia. On its waters live and work thousands of Vietnamese who are engaged in trade. After the Vietnam War, which completely transformed the country, Vietnamese society has been reco ...

The Lord of Sipan (2009)

The tombs of the grand lords of Moche civilization - one of Peru's most important pre-Hispanic civilizations -- are in constant danger from grave robbers, but archeologist Walter Alva has managed to find some priceless treasures and recreate the lives of t ...

Voodoo (2005)

The slave ships during the XVII and XVIII century transported millions of colored people from Africa to America carried within it the seed of a religious cult that would help the slaves in the Confederacy for their freedom. This is the story of the formati ...

Eyengui, el dios del sueño (2003)

This is an interesting look at the Baka pygmies of Cameroon. Instead of an anthropology documentary in the style of National Geographic, it is the recounting of a legend, all told from the point of view of the tribe. It's quite interesting in how it deals ...

The Moche Route (2014)

Starting from the colonial city of Trujillo, this documentary reveals natural and archeological features along the north coast of Peru, where the Moche culture thrived from the 1st Century BC to the 6th Century AD. ...

Millennial Peru: The Unexplored History (2014)

In the Formative Period 4,000 years before the Incas and the arrival of the Conquistadors, Peru's earliest civilizations - the Chavín, Caral, Ventarrón, Sechin, Cupisnique, and Cajamarca cultures - built centers of learning and technological achievements ...