A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.
Produção baseada em um fato real que aconteceu durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, mas que não foi muito bem explorada pelo cinema, até agora. Trata-se da batalha que aconteceu na trila de Kokoda, entre os exércitos australianos e japoneses. Aqui a história é contada com fidelidade, boas interpretações e uma ótima adaptação da época e das condições em que o fato ocorreu.
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
David Attenborough conta a notável história de como estas "aves do paraíso" têm cativado exploradores, naturalistas, artistas, cineastas e até mesmo a realeza.
In his now well-known role of narrator of wildlife expeditions, Attenborough accompanies a government-sponsored trek into the central New Guinea highlands to make contact with a group of natives never before seen by Europeans.
The island of New Guinea is the setting for this film, which focuses on the landscape, the life of the Papuans and their ritual festivals and spirit dances. The colorful birds of paradise are the pride of the islanders. Among the more than 40 species, the smallest, the "Little King" with blood-red plumage, can also be found on the island.
A documentary following famed explorer Lewis Cotlow traveling into the heart of New Guinea in search of unknown tribal cultures.