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Disappearing World
19701 seasons49 episodes
Disappearing World is a British documentary television series produced by Granada Television, which produced 49 episodes between 1970 and 1993. The episodes, each an hour long, focus on a specific human community around the world, usually but not always a traditional tribal group.
Seasons
Episode 1
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?
Episode 2
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.
Episode 3
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
Episode 4
War of the Gods
Protestants and Catholics compete to enforce their religion on the traditional Maku and Barasana people of the forests of Colombia.
Episode 5
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.
Episode 6
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.
Episode 7
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.
Episode 8
Dervishes of Kurdistan
The Dervishes are a group of Kurds, a people who have no homeland, who are being allowed to live in Iran.
Episode 9
The Mursi
The Mursi are a tribe in Ethiopia who, when not worshipping Allah, are at constant war with their neighbours, the Bodi.
Episode 10
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.
Episode 11
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.
Episode 12
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.
Episode 13
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.
Episode 14
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.
Episode 15
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.
Episode 16
The Kirghiz
No overview is available.
Episode 17
The Shilluk
No overview is available.
Episode 18
Eskimos of Pond Inlet - The People's Land
No overview is available.
Episode 19
Some Women of Marrakesh
No overview is available.
Episode 20
The Rendille
No overview is available.
Episode 21
Sherpas
No overview is available.
Episode 22
Umbanda
No overview is available.
Episode 23
The Pathans
No overview is available.
Episode 24
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.
Episode 25
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.
Episode 26
The Kwegu
No overview is available.
Episode 27
Inside China: Living with the Revolution
No overview is available.
Episode 28
Inside China: The Newest Revolution
No overview is available.
Episode 29
Inside China: The Kazakhs of China
No overview is available.
Episode 30
The Migrants
No overview is available.
Episode 31
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.
Episode 32
The Basques of Santazi
No overview is available.
Episode 33
The Lau of Malaita
No overview is available.
Episode 34
The Whalehunters of Lamalera
No overview is available.
Episode 35
Across the Tracks: Vlach Gypsies in Hungary
No overview is available.
Episode 36
The Wodaabe
No overview is available.
Episode 37
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.
Episode 38
Villagers of the Sierra De Gredos
No overview is available.
Episode 39
The Herders of Mongun-Taiga
No overview is available.
Episode 40
The Mende
No overview is available.
Episode 41
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.
Episode 42
The Kalasha: Rites of Spring
No overview is available.
Episode 43
The Mursi - The Land Is Bad
No overview is available.
Episode 44
The Mursi - Nitha
No overview is available.
Episode 45
The Albanians of Rrogam
No overview is available.
Episode 46
Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio Palopo
No overview is available.
Episode 47
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.
Episode 48
War: Orphans of Passage - Sudan
No overview is available.
Episode 49Latest episode
War: The Longest Struggle
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