Tribe (2005)
Tribe (2005) is a TV show on BBC4. The original documentary series from 2005 where Bruce Parry visits indigenous communities around the world, spending a month living and interacting with each society. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 12 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2026.
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Tribe (2005)
Documentary series. Explorer Bruce Parry treks into the jungles of Borneo in search of the last nomadic Penan, whose traditional way of life is about to disappear forever.
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Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry, who this week treks into the high mountains in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to live with the isolated Layap people.
Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry. Bruce spends time with the Akie people of Tanzania, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers to live on the African savannah.
Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry. He sails to the island of Anuta, a tiny tropical outpost in the South Pacific, one of the most isolated communities on Earth.
Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the frozen tundra of Northern Siberia, spending a month with a brigade of Nenet reindeer herders during their winter migration.
Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon rainforest to live with the Matis, a tribe once devastated by western disease who are determined to preserve their culture.
Series 1
The Sanema people of the Venezuelan Amazon inhabit a universe full of powerful spirits. Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the tribe and takes part in a shamanistic festival.
The Darhad herders of Mongolia are some of the last nomadic people on the planet. Explorer Bruce Parry joins a family for their arduous winter migration.
The Babongo people of Gabon take powerful hallucinogens which send them on life threatening, three day trip. Bruce Parry undergoes the initiation and finds it has some terrifying side effects.
The jungles of West Papua were once famed for their head-hunters and cannibals. Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the Kombai people to discover whether cannibalism is still part of their lives.
Explorer Bruce Parry spends time living with the Suri people of Ethiopia. Living in an unstable region of Ethiopia, the Suri are self-sufficient and have a powerful assurance in their culture.
Bruce Parry joins the Adi people of Arunchal Pradesh in their daily lives in the Himlayas, hunting, eating rats and undertaking sacrificial rituals.