Synopsis
Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon rainforest to live with the Matis, a tribe once devastated by western disease who are determined to preserve their culture.
- Programme: Tribe
- Series: 3
- Episode: Matis
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2007
- Geography
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