A detailed record of the first stage male initiation ceremony of the Baruya of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. A group of nine to 12 year old boys are followed through their first initiation - from the last days with their families through their nose-piercing and other rituals and ordeals to the final feast given in their honour. It is a tough time, the beginning of a ten-year journey to warrior and manhood.
In 1945, a group of Australian soldiers inadvertently stumbled across Amelia Earhart's downed airpla...
Set on the Upper Sepik River in New Guinea, this film records the day-to-day experiences of Kiap (on...
A "documentary" on witchcraft, most notable for depicting a black mass in which a cockerel is sacrif...
John Waiko is the first Papua New Guinea man to graduate with a PhD and be appointed a professor. He...
A documentary that reveals the underbelly of the global aid and investment industry. It's a complex ...
The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people,...
Joe Leahy is the half-caste son of one of the first explorers of the Papua New Guinean interior. The...
This Traveltalk series short visits Papua and Kalabahai.
David Attenborough tells the remarkable story of how these " birds of paradise " have captivated exp...
A report following the dramatic events of the Sandline affair, which resulted in the resignation of ...
Conservationists Jim and Jean Thomas braved the steamy jungles of Papua New Guinea to save a tree ka...
The Road to Home (2015), tells the story of Benny Wenda, the Nobel Peace Prize nominated West Papuan...
A Japanese animal photographer, Tadashi Shimada, captures crucial photographs of wild birds in Ocean...
The western half of the island of New Guinea has been known by many names including Netherlands New ...
"Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial" was a 1983 episode of the PBS science documentary series N...
National Geographic joins author and explorer Piers Gibbon as he investigates one of mankind's ultim...
Power Meri follows Papua New Guinea's first national women's rugby league team, the PNG Orchids, on ...
For an initiation stunt, five college women are locked in a Kentucky hospital built in 1910 where 63...
Seven-year-old Rio visits her grandparents in Japan for the first time. She observes the beauty and ...
After joining the Skulls, Ryan Sommers (Robin Dunne) is warned not to betray any secrets about the o...