First Contact: Lost Tribe of the Amazon

2016 NR 49m 6.9

Documents first contact with members of a previously isolated tribe called the Txapanawa on the bank of the Envira River in the village of Simpatia in Brazil. The Anthropologist is José Carlos Meirelles.

Anthropologists encounter several groups of "Uncontacted" people in the jungles of South America, in a preserved region on the edges of Brazil and Peru. Patiently communicating as best they can, with the help of translators who speak a dialect not too different, they learn about these people's experiences with rubber barons and invasion years before. They begin to help them integrate into modern living.

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Studio(s): Ronachan Films, Pacha Films

Originally Released: United States on Feb 23, 2016

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Genres: Documentary

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