Hilltribes in the Golden Triangle region have different customs and beliefs. This is about the war between 2 such tribes a long time ago. The son of the headman of one tribe is trained in the art of war and the courage to fight the opposing tribe that has stolen their cattle, crops and opium. Once trained the war begins.
A group of Ubangi women and their chief on an exhibit in 1932.
This animated short is about a elipse who was made an outcast of the circle tribe, but he was exiled from his tribe, and he goes on a journey to get back to his tribe. He makes friends with a traveling triangle and the hippie hyberbolies who give him some mint to help him learn how to change shapes so he can be perfect once for all so he can return to the Circle tribe for good.
In the equatorial forest of Congo Brazzaville and the Central African Republic pygmies live. Over-exploitation and waste of resources have had a significant impact on the lives of Pygmies. The story is based on Mangala an old and wise voice of these disappearing people.
In 1998, Chris Packham met a hunter-gatherer tribe in remote Sumatra. 20 years later, he goes in search of the same tribe to search for the girl whose photograph he took.
Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.
With the high development of human civilization there is less and less pure land on the earth. The conflict between humans and nature keeps intensifying. Many primitive cultures and beliefs are gradually disappearing. "The Soul of Himalaya" is a story of the Lhoba people's legends and customs. The film portrays a warrior's journey to save an ancient tribe whose way of life is threatened.
The adventurer, Ivan Bulík, traveled all through Africa. However, one of his dreams still eluded him: He desired to capture the life and customs of the smallest people on Earth, to find the undisturbed civilization of Pygmies.
A young neglected hill tribe kid, Sieng, is forced to leave his tribal home to enroll into an international school, it became the start of a new world with foreign friends, mischievous plans and clever plots. Sieng must deal with international group of wily kids, a cunning dim-witted teacher and a handful of kidnappers. Sieng comes to realize that life on the outside is filled with undreamed of adventures and excitement never known before.
A disgraced son of a sheriff is adopted by an Indian tribe after saving the son of a chief.
An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease but also a ferocious Indian tribe.
In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the Russian oil industry on the natives and the lands they inhabit.
Two gunslinger brothers are reunited once again to save a Native American tribe.
A naive and uneducated youngster, who earns living by beekeeping in a forest, gets the shock of his life when his wife is diagnosed with a rare disease. The lack of documents to prove his identity makes things worse for him
A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.
Ruben and Gio have been recently adopted by Evelyn and Memo. The four of them try to create a home where the past, the bad and good stories, and the dreams in common for the future blend all together.
Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand humanity's changing relationship with the world around us.
A young Native American man on his way to visit his uncle learns about his Navajo heritage by attending tribal gatherings, traditional ceremonies and listening to old folktales.
Timmy dreams that he and Brushbrush win a dream vacation to Molar Island. Timmy ends up helping the locals when the ancient crown of King Cuspid has been stolen by the Gingivitis Tribe and the island will sink if the ancient crown of King Cuspid is not returned to the hole it was placed over.