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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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AdiLocation: Northeast India
Bruce joins the Adi people of Arunchal Pradesh in the Himlayas in hunting, eating rats and sacrificial rituals.
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Season01
- S01E01
AdiJanuary 3, 2005Location: Northeast India
Bruce joins the Adi people of Arunchal Pradesh in the Himlayas in hunting, eating rats and sacrificial rituals. - S01E02
SuriJanuary 10, 2005—Location: Ethiopia
Living in an unstable region of Ethiopia, the Suri are self-sufficient and have a powerful assurance in their culture. - S01E03
KombaiJanuary 17, 2005—Location: West Papua
Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the Kombai people to discover whether cannibalism is still part of their lives. - S01E04
BabongoJanuary 24, 2005—Location: Gabon
The Babongo people of Gabon take powerful hallucinogens which send them on a life-threatening, three day trip. Bruce Parry - S01E05
DarhadJanuary 31, 2005—Location: Mongolia
The Darhad herders of Mongolia are some of the last nomadic people on the planet. Explorer Bruce Parry joins a family fo - S01E06
SanemaFebruary 7, 2005—Location: Venezuela
The remote Sanema people of the Venezuelan Amazon inhabit a universe full of powerful spirits and ancestors. Explorer B
Season02
- S02E01
NyangatomJanuary 3, 2006—Location: Ethiopia
His first stay is with the Nyangatom whose warriors are feared by their neighbours. Parry wants to find out what they've - S02E02
HamarJanuary 10, 2006—Location: Ethiopia
He continues his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, staying with a tribe whose young men prove them - S02E03
DassanechJanuary 17, 2006—Location: Ethiopia
Bruce concludes his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, living by Lake Turkana and taking part in a
Season03
- S03E01
MatisAugust 21, 2007—Location: Brazil
Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon rainforest to live with the Matis, a tribe once devastated by western disease w - S03E02
NenetsAugust 21, 2007—Location: Russia
Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the frozen tundra of Northern Siberia, spending a month with a brigade of Nenet reindeer h - S03E03
AnutaSeptember 4, 2007—Location: Solomon Islands
He sails to the island of Anuta, a tiny tropical outpost in the South Pacific, one of the most isolated communiti - S03E04
AkieSeptember 11, 2007—Location: Tanzania
Bruce Parry spends time with the Akie people, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers to live on the African savannah - S03E05
LayapSeptember 18, 2007—Location: Bhutan
Bruce Parry treks into the high mountains in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to live with the isolated Layap people. - S03E06
PenanSeptember 27, 2007—Location: 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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