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Kangling

Original title in Estonian: Vinguv jalaluu

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Katariina Aule

„Kangling“ is a short film based on a short story by Meelis Friedenthal, which tells the story of overcoming fears.

An ancient leg bone is found during archeological excavations. It's soon identified as a foreign pipe for performing old buddhist rituals. To learn more about the mysterious instrument, a young scientist flees to the countryside. Before long she discovers that the enchanting sound of the pipe starts to take a strange hold of her.
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Salme: Ancient Viking Burial Ships

Original title: Salme viikingid

2021 | TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Liis Lindmaa

The documentary series introduces a mystery that was found in 2008 near the Salme schoolhouse in Saaremaa. Who was buried there, who buried them and what happened 1300 years ago - scientists have been searching for answers to these questions for the last 13 years and are now ready to share their findings.

In the first part of the documentary series, we dive head first thousand years back and find out what the Viking Age was all about. The second episode of the series focuses on the excavations. What exactly was found and why is it so special? Plus, the archaeologists recall the emotions the spectacular find stirred in them. The third part of the series looks at how the Viking remains found in Saaremaa were studied and what the analyses revealed. Science is advancing every day, and from the bones it is possible to tell a great deal about a person who died ...
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Ajakapslid

2019 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand
Flesh and bone

Original title: Lihast ja luust

2013 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

The ancient burial mounds in Niklusmäe have been torn up by excavators, the bones are scattered around and the valuable things that were once buried with the bodies have been stolen.

The ancient burial mounds and a village graveyard dating back to the Middle Ages located near Kaagjärve Lake in Karula parish, Valga county, were plundered in the summer of 2012. The central area of the burial mound was completely torn up by the excavator and the bronze jewellery findings from the ground were collected with the metal detector. A crime has been commited. The ancient graveyard has been destroyed, bones are scattered around, and plenty of valuables have been stolen from the ground. The locals say that they know nothing about what has happened. Iidne ja püha Niklusmägi koondab ...
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Another Dimension

2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Moonika Siimets
The Otepää Gonne

Original title: Otepää püss

2008 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Archaeologist Jaak Mäll decides to reconstruct a firearm dating back to 14th century. He uses medieval skills and technology in doing that.

The fragments of the oldest firearm known from Estonia were found during the archaeological excavations of the Otepää castle in 1955 but identified as such only in the late 1980s. In this film the "handgonne" from Otepää is brought back to life by archaeologist Jaak Mäll - re-fabricated using mediaeval technologies and trial-shot with gunpowder made according the recipes from the early 15th century.
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Eesti Filmikroonika

1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Elo Tust
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On the folklore of the peoples of the Baltic states

Original title: Balti riikide rahvaste folkloorist

1989 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Karl Kello

Thematic newsreel reflecting the role of the Baltic states in Europe, bringing out the connections throughout history and folklore up to the present day.

Thematic newsreel reflecting the role of the Baltic states in Europe, bringing out the connections throughout history and folklore up to the present day. The film is searching the common characteristics in the history and folklore of the Baltic states, people are also discussing connecting points with Finnish folklore. Attention is paid to documentation of the history of Estonia, Saaremaa island and Livonia in European records (books, maps of Northern Europe). Arguments and facts from antiquity and prehistory, archaeology, ethnography, folklore, geography, geology and other fields are highlighted. Connections are shown through Estonian church architecture, folk songs, ancient Greek symbols, ...
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Arheoloogilised kaevamised Olustveres, Maidlas ja Jõelähtmes

1984 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov
Arheoloogilised kaevamised ehitusplatsil Aida Tänavas Tallinnas

1983 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Elo Tust
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