Disappearing World

E1 Episode 1: A Clearing in the Jungle

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• May 19, 1970

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?

E2 Episode 2: The Last of the Cuiva

• Jun 8, 1971

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.

E3 Episode 3: Embera: The End of the Road

• Jun 15, 1971

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

E4 Episode 4: War of the Gods

• Jun 22, 1971

Protestants and Catholics compete to enforce their religion on the traditional Maku and Barasana people of the forests of Colombia.

E5 Episode 5: The Tuareg

• Apr 18, 1972

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.

E6 Episode 6: The Meo

• Jul 4, 1972

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.

E7 Episode 7: Kataragama: A God for all Seasons

• Nov 20, 1973

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.

E8 Episode 8: Dervishes of Kurdistan

• Nov 27, 1973

The Dervishes are a group of Kurds, a people who have no homeland, who are being allowed to live in Iran.

E9 Episode 9: The Mursi

• Nov 13, 1974

The Mursi are a tribe in Ethiopia who, when not worshipping Allah, are at constant war with their neighbours, the Bodi.

E10 Episode 10: Mehinacu

• Nov 20, 1974

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.

E11 Episode 11: Masai Women

• Nov 27, 1974

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.

E12 Episode 12: Quechua

• Dec 4, 1974

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.

E13 Episode 13: Ongka's Big Moka - The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea

• Dec 11, 1974

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.

E14 Episode 14: The Sakuddei

• Dec 18, 1974

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.

E15 Episode 15: Masai Manhood

• Apr 8, 1975

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.

E16 Episode 16: The Kirghiz

• Dec 29, 1975

E17 Episode 17: The Shilluk

• Jan 5, 1976

E18 Episode 18: Eskimos of Pond Inlet - The People's Land

• Jan 12, 1976

E19 Episode 19: Some Women of Marrakesh

• Jan 26, 1977

E20 Episode 20: The Rendille

• Feb 23, 1977

E21 Episode 21: Sherpas

• Apr 13, 1977

E22 Episode 22: Umbanda

• Nov 23, 1977

E23 Episode 23: The Pathans

• Feb 20, 1980

E24 Episode 24: Witchcraft among the Azande

• Mar 9, 1982

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.

E25 Episode 25: Asante Market Women

• Mar 16, 1982

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.

E26 Episode 26: The Kwegu

• Mar 23, 1982

E27 Episode 27: Inside China: Living with the Revolution

• Apr 27, 1983

E28 Episode 28: Inside China: The Newest Revolution

• May 4, 1983

E29 Episode 29: Inside China: The Kazakhs of China

• May 18, 1983

E30 Episode 30: The Migrants

• Oct 14, 1985

E31 Episode 31: The Kayapo

• Jun 3, 1987

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.

E32 Episode 32: The Basques of Santazi

• Jun 10, 1987

E33 Episode 33: The Lau of Malaita

• Jun 15, 1987

E34 Episode 34: The Whalehunters of Lamalera

• Jul 13, 1988

E35 Episode 35: Across the Tracks: Vlach Gypsies in Hungary

• Jul 20, 1988

E36 Episode 36: The Wodaabe

• Jul 27, 1988

E37 Episode 37: The Kayapo: Out of the Forest

• Jun 13, 1989

Documents the opposition of the Kayapo Indians of central Brazil to the construction of a hydroelectric dam at Altamira.

E38 Episode 38: Villagers of the Sierra De Gredos

• Jun 20, 1989

E39 Episode 39: The Herders of Mongun-Taiga

• Jun 27, 1989

E40 Episode 40: The Mende

• Jul 18, 1990

E41 Episode 41: Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea

• Jul 25, 1990

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.

E42 Episode 42: The Kalasha: Rites of Spring

• Aug 1, 1990

E43 Episode 43: The Mursi - The Land Is Bad

• Jul 17, 1991

E44 Episode 44: The Mursi - Nitha

• Jul 24, 1991

E45 Episode 45: The Albanians of Rrogam

• Jul 31, 1991

E46 Episode 46: Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio Palopo

• Aug 7, 1991

E47 Episode 47: War: We Are All Neighbours

• May 11, 1993

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.

E48 Episode 48: War: Orphans of Passage - Sudan

• May 18, 1993

E49 Episode 49: War: The Longest Struggle

• May 25, 1993