S1E1: Adi | Tribe

Duration: 59'05''

Synopsis

Fly-on-the-wall documentary following Bruce Parry experience life among the world's disappearing tribes. Bruce joins the Adi people of Arunchal Pradesh in the Himalayas in hunting, eating rats and sacrificial rituals.

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