Disappearing World
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May 19, 1970
The Panare of Venezuala still live the same way of live they have always known, and refuse to accept outside influences. There are no laws, and everyone is equal. But how long can they survive the onslaught of the developed world?
Jun 8, 1971
There are only 600 Cuiva, a group of nomadic hunters left in Columbia, with perhaps another 400 across the border in Venezuela. They once roamed the plains, but now are restricted to a small strip of land.
Jun 15, 1971
There are around 10,000 Embura river people living in Colombia, but the government are about to drive the last of the Pan-American highway right through their territory. They also face constant threat from descendants of former Negro slaves
Jun 22, 1971
Protestants and Catholics compete to enforce their religion on the traditional Maku and Barasana people of the forests of Colombia.
Apr 18, 1972
The Tuareg live in the Sahara dessert at the foot of the mountains of Algeria. After a couple of invasive visits by white troops, very few remain living the traditional life of status veils and tea drinking.
Jul 4, 1972
Originally Aborigines in North and Central China, the 250 000 remaining Meo have been forced southwards, and now live in villages around Southern China and South East Asia.
Nov 20, 1973
At the shrine of the god Kataragama in the jungle of Ceylon, there is a festival of payment for help received. This film focuses on one family who need his help to find their missing 11-year old son.
Nov 27, 1973
The Dervishes are a group of Kurds, a people who have no homeland, who are being allowed to live in Iran.
Nov 13, 1974
The Mursi are a tribe in Ethiopia who, when not worshipping Allah, are at constant war with their neighbours, the Bodi.
Nov 20, 1974
In the Shinghu National Park in Central Brazil live the 70-strong Mehinacu, a tribe in which men and women have distinctly different roles, almost like two communities sharing the same land.
Nov 27, 1974
The Masai live along the Rift Valley near the Kenya-Tanzania border. They keep large amounts of cattle, for whom they have great respect, and the men have many wives, who they also see as a form of wealth.
Dec 4, 1974
High up in the Andes of Peru, live the Quechua, who breathe the thin air and grow potatoes far away from the rest of the world.
Dec 11, 1974
The influential leader of New Guinea's Kawelka tribe spends five years amassing an abundance of valuable items including 600 pigs and a motorbike only to give them away in a festive ceremony called the Moka.
Dec 18, 1974
The Sakuddei are a small clan of traditional people living in the rain-forests of Siberut in The Mentawai Islands off the west coast of the mainland of Sumatra. But modernized Indonesians want to inflict their culture and religion upon them.
Apr 8, 1975
In east Africa, across the borders of Kenya and Tanzania is Loita, where we now follow the Masai men during their ritual in preparation for mandatory moranhood, which means serving as a warrior.
Dec 29, 1975
No overview available for this episode.
Jan 5, 1976
Jan 12, 1976
Jan 26, 1977
Feb 23, 1977
Apr 13, 1977
Nov 23, 1977
Feb 20, 1980
Mar 9, 1982
Presents the role of witchcraft among the Azande in spite of their acceptance of Christianity. Focuses on its usage in adjudicating disputes, curing illness, assuring success in the hunt, and purification of the newborn.
Mar 16, 1982
Examines the matrilineal and polygamous Asante society of Ghana through interviews with women, who exercise complete authority in the wholesale produce market, and with their husbands and children.
Mar 23, 1982
Apr 27, 1983
May 4, 1983
May 18, 1983
Oct 14, 1985
Jun 3, 1987
Documents life among the Kayapo Indians of central Brazil, a fiercely independent tribe, who were forced to become "businessmen" or see their traditional way of life destroyed.
Jun 10, 1987
Jun 15, 1987
Jul 13, 1988
Jul 20, 1988
Jul 27, 1988
Jun 13, 1989
Documents the opposition of the Kayapo Indians of central Brazil to the construction of a hydroelectric dam at Altamira.
Jun 20, 1989
Jun 27, 1989
Jul 18, 1990
Jul 25, 1990
A description of a village on Kiriwina Island, in the Trobriand Group, including their yam cult, fishing, life, traditions and, especially, the position of women in Trobriand society.
Aug 1, 1990
Jul 17, 1991
Jul 24, 1991
Jul 31, 1991
Aug 7, 1991
May 11, 1993
In a Muslim/Catholic village near Sarajevo, rumors fly and suspicions spread. When Catholic Croats assert control, Muslim businesses are attacked, villagers arrested and harassed, and homes threatened.
May 18, 1993
May 25, 1993
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