BBC series exploring cultures around the world.
Air Date: 1989-05-25
Olongapo City in the Philippines is bounded on one end by the US naval base on Subic Bay, and on the other by a line ...
Air Date: 1989-06-01
The Palio di Siena is the most dangerous horse race in the world. It is the culmination of the Sienese year, where an...
Air Date: 1989-06-08
Once feared by explorers as fierce cannibals, the Mangbetu tribe inhabit the edge of the Zaire rainforest in the hear...
Air Date: 1989-06-15
In the rice village of Kurokawa, the contradictions of rural life in Japan are particularly evident. Tradition appear...
Air Date: 1989-06-22
The pilgrimage to Kumbh Mela is the largest gathering of people in the world. Every 12 years, millions come to the ho...
Air Date: 1989-07-06
For centuries, semi-nomadic Arabs have brought camels along the '40-day road' from central Sudan to the camel markets...
Air Date: 1989-07-20
In a world where there are no hospitals or doctors, the medicine man or shaman cures the sick using purely supernatur...
Air Date: 1989-07-27
An intimate and moving portrait of a young Filipino couple trying to survive in the slums of Manila. Celso and Cora a...
Air Date: 1989-08-03
Estonia is in the forefront of Soviet nationalist movements awakened by glasnost. As Estonian Jews celebrate their ne...
Air Date: 1989-08-10
General Pinochet's violent military coup ended a long tradition of democracy in Chile. For the Santiago shanty town o...