• 1961
  • 30m
Adventure

Summary A weekly series of films taken by travellers and explorers on their expeditions throughout the world. View more details

  • 1961
  • 30m

Adventure

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : David Attenborough Tom Stobart Anthony Smith Ralph Izzard

All cast & crew

6.8

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 4, 1961

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary A weekly series of films taken by travellers and explorers on their expeditions throughout the world. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 4, 1961

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Adventure (1961) Adventure (1961)

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Episode 1 • Oct 04, 1961
Sledge Survey
A week in the life of a Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey team working among the glaciers and snow-fields on the rim of the Antarctic continent.
Episode 2 • Oct 11, 1961
The Tunnel of Samos
June Toulmin explores a tunnel through a mountain on the tiny island of Samos which was constructed 2,500 years ago on the orders of Polycrates, a pirate chief, to bring fresh water to his fortress by the harbour.
Episode 3 • Oct 18, 1961
The Land of the Queen of Sheba
An exploration of the ancient Ethiopian kingdom unveils thousand-year-old Christian churches, vibrant pagan festivals, and the grand court of Emperor Haile Selassie.
Episode 4 • Oct 25, 1961
Wings in the Malayan Forest
Tony Beamish's journey through jungles of Central Malaya in search of the famous Rajah Brooke's birdwing butterfly and the flying kubong, one of the most mysterious animals in the world.
Episode 5 • Nov 01, 1961
Voodoo Island
Remarkable ceremonies recently filmed on the island of Haiti. Industrial society has turned the Voodoo loa, originally the strange gods of an African tribe, into contemporary deities who take possession of their worshippers.
Episode 6 • Nov 08, 1961
Crusaders' Path
Nine centuries after the Crusaders marched to Jerusalem, a group of young people from Cambridge repeat the journey. discovering remnants of knights, princes, men-at-arms, laborers, and castles from the Bosphorus to the River Jordan.
Episode 7 • Nov 15, 1961
The Shrines of China
Dr. Andre Migot documents his journey from Peking to the Tibetan borders, as he explores sacred caves, temples, and mountains associated with various religions in China.
Episode 8 • Nov 22, 1961
Dyak
Bill Geddes spent years in the Borneo forests with the Dyaks of Mentu Tapuh, in a remote longhouse in which the entire community lived. BAcceptance into the tribe allowed him to fully document the fascinating life of these jungle people.
Episode 9 • Nov 29, 1961
Unknown Mountains of Nepal
Three English explorers embark on an expedition to survey and chart some of the planet's tallest peaks in the most secluded and challenging region of the Himalayas.
Episode 10 • Dec 06, 1961
The Hidden Sanctuaries of Prester John
Robert Dick Read rode through the mountains of Ethiopia in search of its ancient churches hidden in caves and perched on the top of rock pinnacles.
Episode 11 • Dec 13, 1961
Voyage Under The Earth
Two men, Aldo Sillanoli and Jean Cadoux, make an expedition to the sources of the Germe-'the river without stars': a remarkable film made in the limestone caves of eastern France by members of the Caving Group of the French Alpine Club.
Episode 12 • Dec 20, 1961
The Lost Men of Malaya
Fifteen years of terrorism have virtually cut off the Temiar tribes from civilisation. Tony Beamish and Ivan Polunin recently journeyed into the remote jungle to see what had become of these most primitive of Malaya's people.
Episode 13 • Dec 27, 1961
Mule Road to Sikkim
A journey from Bodh Gaya, the holy Buddhist town of India, to the tiny Himalayan states of Sikkim and Bhutan.
Episode 14 • Jan 03, 1962
The Peaks of Peru
Lionel Terray feeds his hunger for new adventures by guiding an international expedition into the Peruvian Andes.
Episode 15 • Jan 10, 1962
The Caviar Fishermen of the Caspian
Tom Stobart leads an entertaining and amusing expedition to northern Persia.
Episode 16 • Jan 17, 1962
Sixty-Five Survivors
Harald Schultz, travelling through the Brazilian jungle, met the plate-lipped people of the Suja - of whom only sixty-five survive-and took this unique film of them.
Episode 17 • Jan 24, 1962
The Wandering Herdsmen of the Sahara
The Bororo people, nomads on the southern edge of the Sahara, follow herds of long-horned cattle across arid savannahs. During the brief rainy season, they assemble on the newly sprouted grass for their spectacular annual festival.
Episode 18 • Jan 31, 1962
Cave of the Assassins
Tom Stobart and Ralph Izzard lead an expedition into caves at the recently discovered site of Maymun-Diz, the Assassins' fortress, hidden in the Elburz mountains of northern Persia, to look for evidence of the fanatical murderers.
Episode 19 • Feb 07, 1962
North through Afghanistan
Arnaud Desjardins travels north from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, across the Hindu Kush mountains to meet the nomad horsemen of central Asia and watch Buz-kashi, their ancient and violent sport played on horseback.
Episode 20 • Feb 14, 1962
Lhasa, Forbidden City
Lhasa, has always been difficult, often impossible, to reach, but this previously unavailable film of a 1930s German expedition into Tibet shows the splendour of what has been called the most romantic and mysterious city in the world.
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