S1E1 - A Clearing in the Jungle
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?
May 19, 1970, midnight
S1E2 - The Last of the Cuiva
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.
June 8, 1971, midnight
S1E3 - Embera: The End of the Road
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
June 15, 1971, midnight
S1E4 - War of the Gods
Protestants and Catholics compete to enforce their religion on the traditional Maku and Barasana people of the forests of Colombia.
June 22, 1971, midnight
S1E5 - The Tuareg
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.
April 18, 1972, midnight
S1E6 - The Meo
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.
July 4, 1972, midnight
S1E7 - Kataragama: A God for all Seasons
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. 20, 1973, midnight
S1E8 - Dervishes of Kurdistan
The Dervishes are a group of Kurds, a people who have no homeland, who are being allowed to live in Iran.
Nov. 27, 1973, midnight
S1E9 - The Mursi
The Mursi are a tribe in Ethiopia who, when not worshipping Allah, are at constant war with their neighbours, the Bodi.
Nov. 13, 1974, midnight
S1E10 - Mehinacu
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. 20, 1974, midnight
S1E11 - Masai Women
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.
Nov. 27, 1974, midnight
S1E12 - Quechua
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. 4, 1974, midnight
S1E13 - Ongka's Big Moka - The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea
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. 11, 1974, midnight
S1E14 - The Sakuddei
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.
Dec. 18, 1974, midnight
S1E15 - Masai Manhood
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.
April 8, 1975, midnight
S1E16 - The Kirghiz
Dec. 29, 1975, midnight
S1E17 - The Shilluk
Jan. 5, 1976, midnight
S1E18 - Eskimos of Pond Inlet - The People's Land
Jan. 12, 1976, midnight
S1E19 - Some Women of Marrakesh
Jan. 26, 1977, midnight
S1E20 - The Rendille
Feb. 23, 1977, midnight
S1E21 - Sherpas
April 13, 1977, midnight
S1E22 - Umbanda
Nov. 23, 1977, midnight
S1E23 - The Pathans
Feb. 20, 1980, midnight
S1E24 - Witchcraft among the Azande
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.
March 9, 1982, midnight
S1E25 - Asante Market Women
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.
March 16, 1982, midnight
S1E26 - The Kwegu
March 23, 1982, midnight
S1E27 - Inside China: Living with the Revolution
April 27, 1983, midnight
S1E28 - Inside China: The Newest Revolution
May 4, 1983, midnight
S1E29 - Inside China: The Kazakhs of China
May 18, 1983, midnight
S1E30 - The Migrants
Oct. 14, 1985, midnight
S1E31 - The Kayapo
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.
June 3, 1987, midnight
S1E32 - The Basques of Santazi
June 10, 1987, midnight
S1E33 - The Lau of Malaita
June 15, 1987, midnight
S1E34 - The Whalehunters of Lamalera
July 13, 1988, midnight
S1E35 - Across the Tracks: Vlach Gypsies in Hungary
July 20, 1988, midnight
S1E36 - The Wodaabe
July 27, 1988, midnight
S1E37 - The Kayapo: Out of the Forest
Documents the opposition of the Kayapo Indians of central Brazil to the construction of a hydroelectric dam at Altamira.
June 13, 1989, midnight
S1E38 - Villagers of the Sierra De Gredos
June 20, 1989, midnight
S1E39 - The Herders of Mongun-Taiga
June 27, 1989, midnight
S1E40 - The Mende
July 18, 1990, midnight
S1E41 - Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea
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.
July 25, 1990, midnight
S1E42 - The Kalasha: Rites of Spring
Aug. 1, 1990, midnight
S1E43 - The Mursi - The Land Is Bad
July 17, 1991, midnight
S1E44 - The Mursi - Nitha
July 24, 1991, midnight
S1E45 - The Albanians of Rrogam
July 31, 1991, midnight
S1E46 - Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio Palopo
Aug. 7, 1991, midnight
S1E47 - War: We Are All Neighbours
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 11, 1993, midnight
S1E48 - War: Orphans of Passage - Sudan
May 18, 1993, midnight
S1E49 - War: The Longest Struggle
May 25, 1993, midnight
Network: ITV Granada
Released: May 19, 1970
Last Air Date: May 25, 1993, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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