15 Jan 2009
Big River Man
Follows Martin Strel as he attempts to cover 3,375 miles of the Amazon River in what is being billed as the world's longest swim.
Secrets of the Tribe
A behind-the-scenes look at a scientific community torn apart by infighting.
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe – and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.
Top Billed Cast
Robert Borofsky Himself
Jesus Cardozo Himself
Marie Isabel Eguillor Herself
Brian Ferguson Himself
Kenneth Good Paul R. Gross Raymond Hames William Irons 
Barbara Johnston Herself
Ernesto Migliazza Marie-Claude Mueller Herself
Frank Salamone Leslie Sponsel Patrick Tierney John Tooby Terence Turner Edward O. Wilson Kenneth Good Himself
Paul R. Gross Himself
Raymond Hames Himself
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