• 1970
  • 52m
Disappearing World
  • 1970
  • 52m

Disappearing World

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Melissa Llewelyn-Davies Mark Edwards John Sheppard Reimar Schefold

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8.8

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : May 18, 1970

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Granada Television

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : May 18, 1970

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Granada Television

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Disappearing World (1970)

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Episode 1 • May 18, 1970
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 • Jun 07, 1971
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 • Jun 14, 1971
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 • Jun 21, 1971
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 • Apr 17, 1972
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 • Jul 03, 1972
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 • Nov 19, 1973
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 • Nov 26, 1973
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 • Nov 12, 1974
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 • Nov 19, 1974
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 • Nov 26, 1974
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 • Dec 03, 1974
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 • Dec 10, 1974
Ongka's Big Moka - The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea
In this documentary produced to bring attention to various ways of life that stand on the brink of extinction due to rapid progression in the modern world, filmmakers travel to five continents to explore the values and behavior of endangered societies in an era where culture seems to take on a new meaning with each sunrise. In one such case, 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. A key component to Kawelka culture, the moka ceremony finds those seeking to gain influence attempting to do so not by acquiring valuable objects, but by giving them away. Unfortunately, things do not go as planned and the leader of the tribe is ultimately threatened with violence as a result of his outwardly selfless act of giving.
Episode 14 • Dec 17, 1974
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 • Apr 07, 1975
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 • Dec 28, 1975
The Kirghiz
Episode 17 • Jan 04, 1976
The Shilluk
Episode 18 • Jan 11, 1976
Eskimos of Pond Inlet - The People's Land
Episode 19 • Jan 25, 1977
Some Women of Marrakesh
Episode 20 • Feb 22, 1977
The Rendille
Episode 21 • Apr 12, 1977
Sherpas
Episode 22 • Nov 22, 1977
Umbanda
Episode 23 • Feb 19, 1980
The Pathans
Episode 24 • Mar 08, 1982
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 • Mar 15, 1982
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 • Mar 22, 1982
The Kwegu
Episode 27 • Apr 26, 1983
Inside China: Living with the Revolution
Episode 28 • May 03, 1983
Inside China: The Newest Revolution
Episode 29 • May 17, 1983
Inside China: The Kazakhs of China
Episode 30 • Oct 13, 1985
The Migrants
Episode 31 • Jun 02, 1987
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 • Jun 09, 1987
The Basques of Santazi
Episode 33 • Dec 31, 1969
The Lau of Malaita
Episode 34 • Jul 12, 1988
The Whalehunters of Lamalera
Episode 35 • Jul 19, 1988
Across the Tracks: Vlach Gypsies in Hungary
Episode 36 • Jul 26, 1988
The Wodaabe
Episode 37 • Jun 12, 1989
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 • Jun 19, 1989
Villagers of the Sierra De Gredos
Episode 39 • Jun 26, 1989
The Herders of Mongun-Taiga
Episode 40 • Jul 17, 1990
The Mende
Episode 41 • Jul 24, 1990
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 • Jul 31, 1990
The Kalasha: Rites of Spring
Episode 43 • Jul 16, 1991
The Mursi - The Land Is Bad
Episode 44 • Jul 23, 1991
The Mursi - Nitha
Episode 45 • Jul 30, 1991
The Albanians of Rrogam
Episode 46 • Aug 06, 1991
Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio Palopo
Episode 47 • May 10, 1993
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 • May 17, 1993
War: Orphans of Passage - Sudan
Episode 49 • May 24, 1993
War: The Longest Struggle

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