Andy Jillings' famous ethnographical documentary about a Yanomami community.

Part three :
Diplomacy, death and endo-cannibalism.

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Note :
Some anthropologists have expressed skepticism about this allegedly 20 years long war, claiming that no fences could be seen around the villages and that such wars don't usually last more than two years. Many aspects of this documentary raise the old question of to what extend it has been staged. The absence of western clothes, for instance, which has surprised anthropologists who noticed other signs of acculturation, may have been a specific demand by the film crew.

Originally, Jillings's intended title was "The art of speaking well". Maybe the movie would had been more focused on the importance of words (ritualized dialogues and speeches) in yanomami society. At the demand of the producers, the "Warriors of the Amazon" version has been exagerately focused on yanomami warfare, probably to match better the well-spread image of Yanomami as 'fierce people', as built by some old sociobiology studies (and deconstructed by anthropological researches).