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Television series in which Michael Wood relates the history of the Spanish conquest of the New World in the 16th century. In four parts: 1) The Fall of The Aztecs: retraces Cortes’ journey across Mexico...
In August 1947 the passenger aircraft ‘Stardust’, flying from Buenos Aires to Santiago and carrying 11 passengers and crew, vanished without trace. The wreckage mysteriously reappeared 53 years later in...
Looks at the the Aztecs, whose architectural legacy is found in modern Mexico City, and the Mayans, who built some of the worlds great temples, including Chichen Itza and Copan. Uses location footage,...
Adrian Cowell traces the history of three tribes of the Amazon rainforest that are on the edge of extinction: the Panara, the Uru Eu Wau Wau, and the Ava-Canoeiro. The films focus on the dramas of...
First programme in a trilogy documenting the fight for survival of an ancient tribe agains the relentless advance of modern man. This programme concerns the various threats to the Amazonian Panara by contact...
The Maroons of Surinam have joined forces with the local Amerindians as the government threatens to use their land.
Eight-part television series using photographs, newsreels, journals, music, diaries and artifacts to relate the history of the American West from 1500 to 1914. On four videocassettes: 1) The People...
In museums and universities across the USA lie the bones of tens of thousands of American Indians. For archaeologists the collections represent a unique source of knowledge, but for the Indians the bones...
Looks at the Hopi, who struggle to retain their traditions in the face of an encroaching modern world. Decades of exploitation by a British mining company have decimated the Hopi homelands and have split the...
Tells what happens when Moi, the leader of the previously isolated Huaorani people in Ecuador, goes to Dallas, Texas, to remonstrate with the Maxus oil company whose drills, flares and leaking pipelines are...
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