Lorne Blair
Director
Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey (1988)
Season 1
The Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey is a series of five documentary films documenting the decade-long Wanderjahr of Lorne and Lawrence Blair's filmmaker/sibling partnership as they travel across Indonesia's volcanic islands, sail with pirates, trek through jungles to un-contacted tribes, witness human sacrifice rituals, and experience self-discovery along the vanishing realm.
Released June 13, 1988
Episode 58 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.sailing-trip, tmdb.indonesia, tmdb.human-sacrifice, tmdb.anthropology, tmdb.adventurer, tmdb.bali, tmdb.new-guinea + 2 more, tmdb.dance-ritual, tmdb.visual-anthropology
Production Companies: BBC
Network: WGBH
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Spice Island Saga
The Blair brothers follow the footsteps of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on a Bugis sailboat in search of the bird of paradise to the Aru Islands near New Guinea.
June 13, 1988, midnight
S1E2 - Dance of the Warriors
The brothers sail to Komodo and camp amongst the giant carnivorous lizards of Dragon Island. In Bali, long before the tsunami of tourism, they build their first bamboo house. In Sumba Island they witness equestrian warriors performing a veiled form of human sacrifice, and in New Guinea they dwell amongst the Asmat tribe of cannibals and headhunters.
June 27, 1988, midnight
S1E3 - East of Krakatoa
In the shadow of Java's active volcanoes the Blairs descend from the erupting crater of Child of Krakatoa into a medieval world of courts, mystical shadow plays, forgers of magical swords, healers with supernatural powers and entire communities ruled by the Goddess of the South Seas.
July 4, 1988, midnight
S1E4 - Dream Wanderers of Borneo
The brothers travel for 800 miles through uncharted rainforest, by canoe and on foot to seek out the last of the nomadic Punan Dyaks, the 'dream-wandering' tribe believed to no longer exist.
July 18, 1988, midnight
S1E5 - Beyond the Ring of Fire
After his brother's death rites in Bali, Lawrence takes a boatload of friends, including Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, on an adventure from the cannibal swamps of New Guinea back westwards in a retrospective of the changing archipelago.
July 25, 1988, midnight
Network: WGBH
Episode Runtime: 58 min.
Season Runtime: 291 min.
Released: June 13, 1988
Last Air Date: July 25, 1988, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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