Tatoué percé...Ceci est mon corps

Reflects a depressing and hopeless reality by following some of the members of "la dieciocho", the so-called 18th Street gang in a poor San Salvador...

A collection of footage and interviews with strange people and their exploration into the unusual and extreme side of body modification.

A look into the world of body piercing and suspension and the people who do it.

A bold reveal of a rose tattoo opens this 1980 documentary on tattooing in New Zealand. The potted history includes visits to tattoo parlours on K'...

Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/director Geoff Steven scored a major coup...

Stories of people who regard augmenting their bodies as a way of life, whether for artistic reasons or out of pure vanity.

Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride of beauty... pride of strength."

How did they migrate from the margin to the masses, from underground to mainstream? Tattoos have now permeated all levels of society, but what does...

A family story that reveals the fate of the Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during the First World War. The story of "Grandma's Tattoos"...

An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.

A documentary about the practice of piercing and body modification in western cultures.