Strange Rituals - Season 1

Strange Rituals - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes11
Datesnov. 2, 2009 - nov. 14, 2009

Episodes

Cannibals
Season 1Episode 160 min

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
Beyond Sex
Season 1Episode 260 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.

déc. 30, 2009
Warrior Women
Season 1Episode 360 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.

déc. 31, 2009
Altered States
Season 1Episode 460 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.

déc. 31, 2009
Forbidden Sex
Season 1Episode 560 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.

déc. 31, 2009
Last Rites
Season 1Episode 660 min

Last Rites

The different ways people deal with death around the world, including traditions in India, Indonesia and Mexico.

nov. 2, 2009
Masters of Pain
Season 1Episode 760 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.

déc. 28, 2009
Sudden Death
Season 1Episode 860 min

Sudden Death

Ritual killings; Celtic rites of ancient Ireland; Cambodian genocide of the 1970s; cult members commit mass suicide in 1997.

déc. 31, 2009
Rites of Passage
Season 1Episode 960 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.

déc. 23, 2009
Wilderness Warriors
Season 1Episode 1060 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.

déc. 31, 2009
Apocalypse
Season 1Episode 1160 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

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