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  • Actors: Bruce Parry
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 6
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Oct 2007
  • Run Time: 649 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000S6UZGU
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,806 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

One of the more interesting and diverting shows of recent times has seen former Royal Marine Bruce Parry head off to the far reaches of the planet to live among the various tribes of the world. And with all three series of the intriguing Tribe now collected together in this one sit, it’s an invitation to catch up on his adventures that you’d be unwise to decline.

The central idea finds Parry adopting the workings, methods and practices of the tribes that he spends time with. And the reason this works so well is Parry himself, providing a respectful, clear and calm core to a programme that could so easily have fallen foul of many assorted trappings of the genre. His findings throughout Tribe are frequently fascinating, and the programme itself is diligently paced to give you ample opportunity to take it all in. It’s immersive and genuinely involving television.

The episodes collected together in this Tribe boxset find Parry travelling through the likes of Ethiopia, Mongolia and the Himalayas, and there’s a real sense of not knowing what you’re going to discover when each episode begins. Marry that into episodes with strong rewatch value--for both educational and entertainment purposes--and Tribe emerges as little short of a modern television treat. --Jon Foster

DVD Description

Former Royal Marine officer and expedition leader Bruce Parry, sheds the trappings of a western existence and lives alongside tribes, such as the forest people of central Gabon, adopting their methods and practices.

Taking adventure into a whole new realm, Parry dares to go where other presenters fear to tread: hunting, cooking and eating like a native and even trying the local recreational and ritualistic poisons. He also examines the way in which western influence is encroaching on these remote areas and asks whether this is a good thing.

This box set includes series 1, 2 and 3.

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71 of 73 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quite possibly the best television series of the last decade, 5 Sep 2007
By Ian Armer (Lancashire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Is 'Tribe' one of the greatest television programmes of the past 10 years? Absolutely. And all because it manages to show real people, living real lives, with genuine unflinching insight and touching emotion. No other television programme has come close to genuinely captivating the viewer, raising serious issues - and that covers issues of family and society - in a meaningful, relevant way that does not feel 'forced' or sugar coated. 'Tribe' is, simply, brilliant.

Bruce Parry is the perfect anchor for the series. He is perfectly normal and down to earth in every way, and - of course - the fact that he constantly makes an idiot out of himself endears him to the viewer. From drinking blood, to tripping out, spewing, getting naked, breaking important hunting equipment, almost falling off a cliff, allowing reindeer to drink his urine, leaping over cows, killing cows with a spear, losing vast amounts of weight, being whipped, bitten, stung, laughed at...the guy takes it all in good spirits. He gets by on sheer determination and the fact that he just gets stuck in 100%

The fact is you can't manufacture these moments. It's edited to form a coherant form for every episode (usually based around Bruce undergoing initiation rites) but no other programme could ever (fictionally) recreate the genuine humanity on show throughout this series.

Another important aspect of this series is that it truly shows our society to be a consumer mad engine that is devouring these lands and forcing these people to adopt to our ways, when it's really not necessary. Indeed, it gives one chance to think that maybe the tribe have got it right?

That's why 'Tribe' is one the great television programmes. It's more than Bruce Parry making a fool of himself. It's much more than seeing how other people live and feeling content with what we have. It's a series that is a genuine look at humanity, at what development and society is, at what is being lost forever in the name of progress.

It's an essential purchase. It's a brilliant series.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential is an overrated term these days..., 14 Nov 2007
By S. Cobley (uk) - See all my reviews
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But this programme merits the accolade of 'essential viewing' if ever I saw one. I agree fully with the reviewer who states that this is one of the best series of factual programme of the past decade, if not the best. I simply cannot remember seeing anything as engrossing, informative and touching as this for a long time, if ever. This series really needed to be made, and is a must have for any armchair anthropologists out there.

Well done the BBC

And well done Bruce!

Fascinating.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Tribe Highly recommended, 29 Dec 2009
By Ms. Bianca M. Mills (UK) - See all my reviews
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Fantastic series! Very interesting and very well produced. The crew have seemingly tried to be as un-intrusive as possible whilst filming these remote tribes.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars I don't really understand your question
Truly excellent - so different from the book (of the same name "Tribe") that Bruce Parry issued subsequent to the series being originally shown on BBC television in the UK. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Mike Springate

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Tribal Experience!
An absolute must see for all travel/culture lovers out there! I was hooked from the first episode in the series to the last. Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Geddes

5.0 out of 5 stars Bruce is an inspiration
This boxset is pure addictive. Bruce takes into the unknown worlds of ancient human history.
Published 4 months ago by SL

4.0 out of 5 stars Join!
Where Bear Grylls entertains us by leaping off cliffs and eating pustulant bugs; Bruce Parry's USP is that he hooks up with various tribes, happily makes a fool of himself in a... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Dublinia

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
That someone could dub this brilliant series as superficial goes to show that everyone is different with vastly different tastes in viewing. Read more
Published 6 months ago by HS

5.0 out of 5 stars A great series!
This is just awsome! I downloaded the ripped videos from the internet and instantly I have fallen in love with the series, so I ordered the DVD pack from Amazon. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Szakonyi Balázs

5.0 out of 5 stars Bravo Bruce Parry!
The BBC Tribe series featuring Bruce Parry's travels and time spent with tribes in different parts of the world is just amazing - it's also humbling, touching, funny and very... Read more
Published 11 months ago by T. G. Lenzi

2.0 out of 5 stars SHALLOW AND SUPERFICIAL
No doubt, this could have been a very fine documentary. The tribes presented are among the least known and most fascinating on the planet. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Kostas Stamelos

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely fantastic!
I'd caught an episode of Tribe on TV and enjoyed it, so took the leap and bought the box set and it was absolutely worth it. Read more
Published 19 months ago by J.B.

5.0 out of 5 stars WORTH WATCHING
I learnt alot about the various tribes and just how tough Bruce is. He is an amazing special man!
xxxx Love you Bruce.
Published 22 months ago by G. Battams

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