Episode guide
Series 1
Tribe
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Suri
Mind-expanding anthropology with Bruce Parry, the man who travels the world, meeting indigenous tribes. A visit to the stick-fighting Suri people of Ethiopia.
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Kombai
Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry. He travels to the jungles of West Papua to spend time with the Kombai people, once notorious for their cannibalistic tendencies.
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Babongo
While living with the Babongo tribe of Gabon in west Africa, Bruce Parry undergoes an initiation ceremony involving taking a powerful hallucinogen that lasts for three days.
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Darhad
While living with the nomadic Darhad herders of Mongolia, Bruce Parry helps a migrating family move their livestock across a high mountain pass.
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Adi
Explorer Bruce Parry reveals more remarkable secrets of indigenous peoples. He spends six weeks with the Adi people of Arunachal Pradesh in the Himalayas.
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Sanema
The enlightening series filming some of the remotest communities on Earth. Bruce Parry takes part in a shamanistic festival with the Sanema people of the Venezuelan Amazon.
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Series 2
Tribe
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Nyangatom
Bruce Parry reveals more remarkable secrets of indigenous peoples. Here, he spends time with the Ethiopian Nyangatom tribe whose warriors have a fearsome reputation.
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Hamar
Bruce Parry reveals more remarkable secrets of indigenous peoples. Here, he spends time with the Hamar tribe whose young men prove themselves by jumping over a line of cattle.
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Dassanech
Explorer Bruce Parry learns the secrets of tribal people. Here, he concludes his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, and takes part in a crocodile hunt.
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Series 3
Tribe
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Matis
Intrepid explorer Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon to live with the remote Matis tribe. Once devastated by western disease, the Matis are determined to preserve their culture.
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Nenets
Explorer Bruce Parry joins the Nenet reindeer herders on their annual winter migration across the frozen Siberian tundra. The journey is long, arduous and potentially deadly.
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Anuta
The ever-intrepid Bruce Parry here sets sail to the island of Anuta, a tiny tropical outpost in the South Pacific, and one of the most isolated communities on Earth.
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Akie
Bruce Parry spends time with the Akie people of Tanzania, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers to live on the African savannah. Bruce is forced to face his biggest fear.
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Layap
Explorer Bruce Parry treks into the high mountains in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to live with the isolated Layap people. It proves a profound and spiritual journey.
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Penan
Following the ever-intrepid Bruce Parry as he treks into the jungles of Borneo in search of the last nomadic Penan, whose traditional way of life is about to disappear forever.
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