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Tribe

TV·2005–2007·3 seasons, 15 episodes·BBC Two·Documentary·1h

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Documentary series following former British Royal Marine Bruce Parry as he visits a number of remote tribes around the world, spending a month living and interacting with each society.

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  1. 01Tribe S01E01AdiS01E01 · 10.0Location: Northeast India Bruce joins the Adi people of Arunchal Pradesh in the Himlayas in hunting, eating rats and sacrificial rituals.

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Episodes by season

Season016Episodes2005Aired 10.0Season avg
  1. S01E01Tribe S01E01AdiJanuary 3, 2005 10.0Location: Northeast India Bruce joins the Adi people of Arunchal Pradesh in the Himlayas in hunting, eating rats and sacrificial rituals.
  2. S01E02Tribe S01E02SuriJanuary 10, 2005Location: Ethiopia Living in an unstable region of Ethiopia, the Suri are self-sufficient and have a powerful assurance in their culture.
  3. S01E03Tribe S01E03KombaiJanuary 17, 2005Location: West Papua Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the Kombai people to discover whether cannibalism is still part of their lives.
  4. S01E04Tribe S01E04BabongoJanuary 24, 2005Location: Gabon The Babongo people of Gabon take powerful hallucinogens which send them on a life-threatening, three day trip. Bruce Parry
  5. S01E05Tribe S01E05DarhadJanuary 31, 2005Location: Mongolia The Darhad herders of Mongolia are some of the last nomadic people on the planet. Explorer Bruce Parry joins a family fo
  6. S01E06Tribe S01E06SanemaFebruary 7, 2005Location: Venezuela The remote Sanema people of the Venezuelan Amazon inhabit a universe full of powerful spirits and ancestors. Explorer B

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season023Episodes2006AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Tribe S02E01NyangatomJanuary 3, 2006Location: Ethiopia His first stay is with the Nyangatom whose warriors are feared by their neighbours. Parry wants to find out what they've
  2. S02E02Tribe S02E02HamarJanuary 10, 2006Location: Ethiopia He continues his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, staying with a tribe whose young men prove them
  3. S02E03Tribe S02E03DassanechJanuary 17, 2006Location: Ethiopia Bruce concludes his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, living by Lake Turkana and taking part in a

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season036Episodes2007AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01Tribe S03E01MatisAugust 21, 2007Location: Brazil Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon rainforest to live with the Matis, a tribe once devastated by western disease w
  2. S03E02Tribe S03E02NenetsAugust 21, 2007Location: Russia Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the frozen tundra of Northern Siberia, spending a month with a brigade of Nenet reindeer h
  3. S03E03Tribe S03E03AnutaSeptember 4, 2007Location: Solomon Islands He sails to the island of Anuta, a tiny tropical outpost in the South Pacific, one of the most isolated communiti
  4. S03E04Tribe S03E04AkieSeptember 11, 2007Location: Tanzania Bruce Parry spends time with the Akie people, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers to live on the African savannah
  5. S03E05Tribe S03E05LayapSeptember 18, 2007Location: Bhutan Bruce Parry treks into the high mountains in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to live with the isolated Layap people.
  6. S03E06Tribe S03E06PenanSeptember 27, 2007Location: Sarawak, Borneo Bruce Parry treks into the jungles in search of the last nomadic Penan. The Penan are hunter-gatherers whose fore

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