The Best Tribes & Hunter-Gatherers Documentaries

Tribes & Indigenous Cultures - 56 free documentaries about tribes & hunter-gatherers.

Start with The Congolese Tribes Selling Weed to Survive (42 min, VICE), then The Filipino Tribe That Lives Inside a Volcano (52 min, Free Documentary). All 56 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on tribes & hunter-gatherers is The World Until Yesterday by Jared M. Diamond.

• The Congolese Tribes Selling Weed to Survive | WEEDIQUETTE (42 min, VICE)
• The Filipino Tribe That Lives Inside a Volcano | The Last Cavemen (52 min, Free Documentary)
• Getting Lost in the Amazon with the Matis Tribe | Superskilled with Eva zu Beck (36 min, National Geographic)
• I Spend 5 Days With the Hadza Hunter-Gatherers | Superskilled with Eva zu Beck (34 min, National Geographic)
• Australia's Dark Secret: The Inhumane Treatment of Indigenous Peoples (110 min, ENDEVR)
• The Ancient Tribes That Settled the Americas | First Peoples (55 min, PBS)
• How This Remote Tribe Tracks And Hunts Desert Predators | Man Hunt S1 E4 (45 min, Wonder)
• This Hidden Tribe Hunt Jungle Animals With Deadly Precision | Man Hunt S1 E2 (45 min, Wonder)
• Ghost Warriors: The German Tribes That Hunted Romans | Ancient Black Ops (50 min, Odyssey)
• The Paiute Tribe's Marijuana Venture | WEEDIQUETTE (22 min, VICE)
• Can indigenous knowledge save the world? (26 min, DW Documentary)
• The Akha tribe in Laos: Between tradition and modernity (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The Hmong: China's 8,000-Year-Old Indigenous Tribe | Disappearing World (53 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• The Hidden Tribe That Has Never Seen The Modern World | First Contact: Lost Tribe Of The Amazon (48 min, Wonder)
• The Missing History of Aboriginal Australia | Occupation: Native (51 min, Absolute History)
• The Volcano Divers of the Borana Tribe | Becoming a Man in Ethiopia (51 min, Free Documentary)
• Australia's Dirty Secret | Aborigines (106 min, Moconomy)
• Inside The Mind Of A Tribal Hunter | Man Hunt S1 E1 (45 min, Wonder)
• The Tribe That Took Human Heads | Naga: The Last Headhunters (48 min, Free Documentary)
• The Tribe from the Forbidden Mountains | Zeliangrong People (50 min, Free Documentary)
• The Bamboo Houses of the Adi Tribe | Habitats of the World: India (25 min, Free Documentary)
• 1608 - 1813: The Complex History Of Canada's Indigenous Nations And More (131 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Blood Debt: Feudal Familial Law in the Balkans (35 min, VICE)
• The Mystery Of The American South's Ancient Cannibal Tribe | Canyon Cannibals (48 min, Odyssey)
• World's Largest Isolated Tribe | Mashco Piro: Living Like 20,000 Years Ago (88 min, Free Documentary)
• The last nomads of Borneo (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Canada’s Dark Secret: The Inhumane Treatment of Indigenous Peoples (56 min, ENDEVR)
• Iran's Last Great Nomads | Inside the Bakhtiari Tribe (52 min, Free Documentary)
• The Amazon in danger - Indigenous peoples and their struggle for the rainforest (84 min, DW Documentary)
• The Ancient Indigenous Nation Who Settled North America's South West | Archeology (43 min, Odyssey)
• Phillistine: Ancient Tribe of Delilah and Goliath | Naked Archaeologist (24 min, Odyssey)
• John Pilger's Historic Expose On The Persecution Faced By Aborigines (49 min, Our History)
• How Thousands Of Indigenous Children Were Stolen From Their Parents (82 min, Real Stories)
• Temptations of the Big City: Growing Up Indigenous (56 min, Real Stories)
• The Forgotten Tribe Of Anuta | 1000 Days For The Planet (40 min, Real Wild)
• The Tribe That Left the Forest | Mlabri: Asia's Forgotten People (51 min, Free Documentary)
• Meet the Korowai: The Giant Treehouse Tribe of Indonesia (169 min, Free Documentary)
• What Have We Learned About The Native Gaelic Tribes? (37 min, Odyssey)
• The Flu Epidemic That Wiped Out An Entire Tribe | Darwin’s Beagle (51 min, Absolute History)
• Unveiled: The Kohistan Video Scandal | Tribal Justice (52 min, ENDEVR)
• The Painted People: The Last Hidden Tribe of the Amazon (47 min, Free Documentary)
• Tribes That Stood Against the Roman Empire | Barbarians Rising (S1, E5) (49 min, HISTORY)
• The Myth of Thanksgiving: Native American Perspectives on THE PILGRIMS | Past Forward (66 min, American Experience)
• The Brutal Realities of Living With an Isolated Tribe (59 min, Wonder)
• Saving Amazonia - Part 2: Indigenous Internet Warriors (52 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• A Day in the Kenyan Savanna: A Maasai Child's Dangerous Journey to School (72 min, Free Documentary)
• Tecumseh Unites the Tribes | The Men Who Built America (S1, E2) (80 min, HISTORY)
• Melting Greenland: How the Inuit Way of Life is Vanishing with the Ice (24 min, ENDEVR)
• The Kichwa People | Ecuador: The Amazon Tribe That Fought Back (22 min, Free Documentary)
• Yi, the Chinese mountain tribe (43 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Surviving With The Nomadic Raute Tribe Of Nepal: A Journey To The Edge Of Existence (52 min, Wonder)
• Tanzania’s Last Hunter-Gatherers | The Hadzabe Tribe Unfiltered (31 min, Free Documentary)
• Vietnam's Tribal Weavers Revive Traditional Materials With Modern Fashion Designs | Echoes of Change (46 min, CNA Insider)
• How Christianity Brought Strife To This Colombian Tribe | Disappearing World (65 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Surma: Ethiopia's Hidden Tribe of Warriors (197 min, Wonder)
• Afghanistan 1979: What Became of the Tribes Fleeing the Soviet Invasion? (48 min, Our History)

Top-Rated Books About Tribes & Hunter-Gatherers

1. The World Until Yesterday by Jared M. Diamond (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
2. Wayfinders by Wade Davis - View on Amazon
3. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (4.6/5) - View on Amazon
4. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown - View on Amazon