Tribe

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.

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Duration: 1h

Release:

Rating: 7.6

Season 1 - Tribe
2005-01-03
"Location: Northeast India\n\nBruce joins the Adi people of Arunchal Pradesh in the Himlayas in hunting, eating rats and sacrificial rituals."
2005-01-10
"Location: Ethiopia\n\nLiving in an unstable region of Ethiopia, the Suri are self-sufficient and have a powerful assurance in their culture."
2005-01-17
"Location: West Papua\n\nExplorer Bruce Parry lives with the Kombai people to discover whether cannibalism is still part of their lives."
2005-01-24
"Location: Gabon\n\nThe Babongo people of Gabon take powerful hallucinogens which send them on a life-threatening, three day trip. Bruce Parry undergoes the initiation and finds it has some terrifying side effects."
2005-01-31
"Location: Mongolia\n\nThe Darhad herders of Mongolia are some of the last nomadic people on the planet. Explorer Bruce Parry joins a family for their arduous winter migration."
2005-02-07
"Location: Venezuela\n\nThe remote Sanema people of the Venezuelan Amazon inhabit a universe full of powerful spirits and ancestors. Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the tribe, eats the same food as them and takes part in a dramatic shamanistic festival."
Season 2 - Tribe
2006-01-03
"Location: Ethiopia\n\nHis first stay is with the Nyangatom whose warriors are feared by their neighbours. Parry wants to find out what they've done to deserve their fearsome reputation."
2006-01-10
"Location: Ethiopia\n\nHe continues his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, staying with a tribe whose young men prove themselves by jumping over a line of cattle. Bruce is challenged to join the ritual."
2006-01-17
"Location: Ethiopia\n\nBruce concludes his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, living by Lake Turkana and taking part in a terrifying crocodile hunt."
Season 3 - Tribe
2007-08-21
"Location: Brazil\n\nExplorer Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon rainforest to live with the Matis, a tribe once devastated by western disease who are determined to preserve their culture."
2007-08-21
"Location: Russia\n\nExplorer Bruce Parry travels to the frozen tundra of Northern Siberia, spending a month with a brigade of Nenet reindeer herders during their winter migration. The herders travel hundreds of miles in temperatures that can drop to -40."
2007-09-04
"Location: Solomon Islands\n\nHe sails to the island of Anuta, a tiny tropical outpost in the South Pacific, one of the most isolated communities on Earth."
2007-09-11
"Location: Tanzania\n\nBruce Parry spends time with the Akie people, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers to live on the African savannah. He is forced to face his biggest fear and put his hand into a bees' nest to gather wild honey."
2007-09-18
"Location: Bhutan\n\nBruce Parry treks into the high mountains in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to live with the isolated Layap people."
2007-09-27
"Location: Sarawak, Borneo\n\nBruce Parry treks into the jungles in search of the last nomadic Penan. The Penan are hunter-gatherers whose forest home is in the process of being cut down around them and whose traditional way of life is about to disappear forever."