52% Strange Rituals
Episodio Precedente
S01E10 - "Wilderness Warriors"
Andato in onda il Dec 31, 2009, 5:00 PM
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Episodi (1 Stagione · 11 Episodi)
Cannibals
In India, an Aghori monk who believes eating human flesh is a crucial step toward enlightenment; uncovering feasts in Liberia where soldiers would consume the organs of defeated enemies.
Nov 2, 2009
60 min
Beyond Sex
Blurring the line between male and female; religious sect in India filled with castrated boys; a college professor struggles to keep his job and family after changing his name to Jennifer; performance artist transitions from female to male.
Dec 30, 2009
60 min
Warrior Women
Warrior women; ancient Amazons; all-female boxing team from Brooklyn, N.Y.; Wilma Mankiller becomes the first woman to lead the Cherokee Nation; women rule a remote village in China.
Dec 31, 2009
60 min
Altered States
Testing the limits of the human body; a man runs barefoot marathons on Arctic ice; dentists drill the teeth of patients anesthetized through hypnosis; members of an Amazonian religious cult believe their priest can suck disease out of a sick person.
Dec 31, 2009
60 min
Forbidden Sex
The Vestal Virgins of ancient Rome; Anchee Min is forced to live in a Maoist work camp; the Jessop family practices Mormon polygamy in Arizona; estranged father and daughter meet as adults and fall in love; tantric sexual healing.
Dec 31, 2009
60 min
Last Rites
The different ways people deal with death around the world, including traditions in India, Indonesia and Mexico.
Nov 2, 2009
60 min
Masters of Pain
Ruben Enaje endures a crucifixion for the seventh time; hundreds of people hang from hooks at Suspension Convention; an underground club in Los Angeles where members play with fire.
Dec 28, 2009
60 min
Sudden Death
Ritual killings; Celtic rites of ancient Ireland; Cambodian genocide of the 1970s; cult members commit mass suicide in 1997.
Dec 31, 2009
60 min
Rites of Passage
Rites of passage; vampire-like rituals in New York City; psychedelic initiations in the jungles of Peru; Aborigines perform painful warrior scarification rituals in Australia.
Dec 23, 2009
60 min
Wilderness Warriors
People venture into the wild in search of adventure and discoveries; underwater explorers dive into icy caves in Antarctica's glaciers; three Mexican fishermen survive nine months adrift in a tiny boat; a teenage girl communicates with wild animals.
Dec 31, 2009
60 min
Apocalypse
Mankind's obsession with how the world will end; a California preacher and his family await the apocalypse; British researchers believe fallout from an asteroid impact destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah 5,000 years ago; preventing World War III.
Nov 14, 2009
60 min
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