Tim Slessor journeys through Burma to visit a tribe of people whose life is spent on the waters of Lake Inle, whose fields are floating pontoons and whose religious festivals are cavalcades of gilded barges.
Father André Dupeyrat dedicated twenty-one years of his life as a missionary among the Papuans in New Guinea. He documented the customs of little-known tribes, including their cannibalistic practices and their unique self-decoration.
Per Høst presents a film about Spitsbergen, the largest of a group of islands lying 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where polar bears hunt seals, and men hunt polar bears.
Douglas Botting travels to Kano in Northern Nigeria, where he encounters horsemen donning chain mail dating back to Crusader times, in the hope of meeting the Emir and to witness Ramadan, along with the festivities that follow it.
William Geddes ventures into the remote hills of northeastern Thailand to document the life and illicit trade of the migratory Miao tribe, who cultivate opium poppies and sell the drug to smugglers who transport it to the coast.
Hugh Tracey documents the construction and performance of the African xylophone by the Chopi people along the lower Zambezi, and captures the captivating dances performed by the Shembe during their annual festival in the Zululand hills
A film about the Aboriginal people living deep in the Australian desert, unaffected by Western influence. They lead a simple existence, with few possessions, and rely on natural resources as they chase the water that keeps them alive.
