Secrets of the Tribe
“A behind-the-scenes look at a scientific community torn apart by infighting.”
2010•1h 38m•6.9•Released
DocumentaryTV Movie
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe – and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.
Director
José Padilha
Languages
English, French, Portuguese
Studio
YLE
Cast
Robert Borofsky
Himself
Jesus Cardozo
Himself
Marie Isabel Eguillor
Herself
Brian Ferguson
Himself
Kenneth Good
Paul R. Gross
Raymond Hames
William Irons
Barbara Johnston
Herself
Ernesto Migliazza
Marie-Claude Mueller
Herself
Frank Salamone
Leslie Sponsel
Patrick Tierney
John Tooby
Production
Company
YLE
Company
DR
Company
Screen East
Company
Impact Partners
Company
Zazen Producciones
Company
Avenue B Productions
Company
SBS
Company
Stampede Films
Company
BBC
Company
HBO Documentary Films
Company
ARTE France Cinéma
Producer
Marcos Prado
Producer
Carol Nahra
Producer
Mike Chamberlain
Recommended
7.9
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
6.2
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
2025
7.6
Ghost Elephants
2026
7.5
Explorer: The Last Tepui
2022
7.1
Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998
7.6
Icarus
2017
7
Western Stars
2019
7.2
Powaqqatsi
1988
6.8
We Live in Public
2009
6.4
A Toxic Love Story
2026
7
Born to Be Wild
2011
7
Narco Cultura
2013
7
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
2006
6.9
City of God: 10 Years Later
2013
7.2
In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
7.5
Grizzly Man
2005
8.2
Baraka
1992
6.4
Dawg Fight
2015
7.1
Come See Me in the Good Light
2025
7.7
Kiss the Ground
2020
Similar Movies
Caitlin Hanna: Trafficked in Belfast
2026
My No Place
2022
7
Woven Songs of the Amazon
2007
The New York Hardcore Chronicles Film
2017
Comitiva Esperança
1985
The Trick Brain
2013
10
Creating a Monster
2016
Ikátena
1983
7
Amazon
1997
6.5
42nd Street Forever, Volume 5: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
2009
10
Countdown to Eternity
1999
10
Cine de Emboscada
2017
6
Bias
2018
#SOMOSAMAZÔNIA
2019
7
Heart of the Country
1997
Amazônia, a Nova Minamata?
2022
7
The Return
2021
6
The Last of the Babingas
1990
Ruy Mauro Marini and the Dependancy Dialetics
0
5.8
David Beckham: Into the Unknown
2014