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Under the Sun (1989) is a documentary web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Under the Sun online in HD.

Under the Sun — Storyline

BBC series exploring cultures around the world.

Cast & Crew

Under the Sun — Series Details

Under the Sun — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Olongapo Rose (1989-05-25) — Olongapo City in the Philippines is bounded on one end by the US naval base on Subic Bay, and on the other by a line of massage parlours, bars, discos, pool-halls, and short-time h
• E2: Four Days in Summer (1989-06-01) — The Palio di Siena is the most dangerous horse race in the world. It is the culmination of the Sienese year, where ancient rivalries between districts come to a head. This film goe
• E3: Spirits of Defiance (1989-06-08) — Once feared by explorers as fierce cannibals, the Mangbetu tribe inhabit the edge of the Zaire rainforest in the heart of Africa. Although they don't eat people any more, they stil
• E4: Masks of Arcadia (1989-06-15) — In the rice village of Kurokawa, the contradictions of rural life in Japan are particularly evident. Tradition appears strong, but this close-knit community is living through a tim
• E5: Dust and Ashes (1989-06-22) — The pilgrimage to Kumbh Mela is the largest gathering of people in the world. Every 12 years, millions come to the holiest place in India – where two great rivers meet. Discover ho
• E6: Voice of the Whip (1989-07-06) — For centuries, semi-nomadic Arabs have brought camels along the '40-day road' from central Sudan to the camel markets of Egypt. Follow one group as they make the arduous 800-mile t
• E7: The Shaman and His Apprentice (1989-07-20) — In a world where there are no hospitals or doctors, the medicine man or shaman cures the sick using purely supernatural powers. Jose is a master shaman of the Yaminahua tribe in th
• E8: Celso and Cora (1989-07-27) — An intimate and moving portrait of a young Filipino couple trying to survive in the slums of Manila. Celso and Cora are sharply aware of the injustices they have to suffer, but the
• E9: One Generation More (1989-08-03) — Estonia is in the forefront of Soviet nationalist movements awakened by glasnost. As Estonian Jews celebrate their new freedom, they remain fearful and contemplate emigration. The
• E10: Adios General (1989-08-10) — General Pinochet's violent military coup ended a long tradition of democracy in Chile. For the Santiago shanty town of La Victoria this has meant years of brutal repression, husban

Season 2

• E1: The Brazilian Trilogy: 1: Feathered Arrows (1990-05-17) — The Mehinaku, one of several Indian groups living in the Xingu National Park, have evolved elaborate rituals to help them keep the peace. Wrestling matches and mock arrow duels hel
• E2: The Brazilian Trilogy: 2: After the Goldrush (1990-05-24) — The story of millions of white people who have flooded into Amazonia over the last decades in search of fortune. For many, the reality turned out to be abject poverty and broken dr
• E3: The Brazilian Trilogy: 3: The Fight for the Forest (1990-05-31) — Rock star Sting and his partner Trudie Styler and Anita Roddick (of The Body Shop) show how the West can help the Kayapo and Yanomami Indians and thus save the rainforests.
• E4: The Hamar Trilogy: 1: The Women Who Smile (1990-06-14) — The Hamar people live in the remote southwest of Ethiopia, far from famine and war. Their women are proud, humorous, and outspoken. Birinda, Duka, and Hilanda live differently from
• E5: Enemies (1990-06-21) — Is it possible for Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace? Two Moroccan Israelis and two Palestinians have much in common; born as Arabic speakers in the Arab world, their hist
• E6: The Left-Handed Man of Madagascar (1990-06-28) — The Hira Gasy is a family of troubadours, who travel the great plateau of Madagascar, earning a living at country fairs, second burials and ancestral spirit ceremonies. In brightly
• E7: Matchmaker, Matchmaker (1990-07-05) — By the end of the century over half of the villages in rural Japan could be ghost towns. They all suffer from the same problem – an acute shortage of young women. Japanese girls ju
• E8: Taking the Heat (1990-07-12) — Every year the work force of India's oldest steel plant beseeches their god of 'getting things done' to bless the ageing hydraulic press. So far it's been so good – but not for fac
• E9: Threat (1990-07-19) — For thousands of years, the Lapp people have lived in harmony with the natural world. On 26 April 1986, radioactive rain fell on northern Sweden from Chernobyl. A single man-made c

Season 3

• E1: Eunuchs: India's Third Gender (1991-06-27) — Kiran was castrated four months ago. His best friend Harish yearns to be a woman but has a wife and two children. Shardabai is the Empress of the Eunuchs. She preserves the courtly
• E2: Do They Feel My Shadow? (1991-07-04) — Palestinian children in Gaza, armed with only stones and slogans, are fighting the Israeli military occupation. A staggering 20,000 children have been injured by live bullets, rubb
• E3: The Hamar Trilogy: 2: Two Girls Go Hunting (1991-07-18) — 'When a girl gets married, she goes hunting' say the Hamar of southwest Ethiopia. No Hamar girl would want to remain unmarried, yet her wedding day is the saddest day of her life.
• E4: The Actress, the Bishop, and the Carnival Queen (1991-07-25) — Divination, sacrifice, spirit possession, and witchcraft all play a part in the preparation for a carnival that has taken place in the northeastern city of Recife in Brazil since t
• E5: Enemies of Silence: The Adventures of Two Mexican Musicians (1991-08-01) — The real life story of two 'Mariachi' musicians who leave home in search of work. One joins the fight for the poor. The other is smuggled across the USA border through a network of
• E6: Last Pit in the Rhondda: The Final Cut (1991-08-08) — On 20 December 1990, Mardy Colliery was closed, ending over 200 years of coal mining in the Rhondda valley. But the 300 miners have more to adjust to than the loss of their jobs. S
• E7: Portraits from a Dream Show (1991-08-15) — Asia's largest and oldest traveling circus winds its way across rural India, bringing fun, fame and fortune. Every few months the circus disbands to allow the players to return to
• E8: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1991-08-22) — The Wodaabe of the southern Sahara consider themselves 'the most beautiful people on earth'. Their slender and graceful young men, many of them seven feet tall, adorn themselves wi
• E9: Marriage Egyptian Style (1991-08-29) — In the backstreets of old Islamic Cairo, marriage can be far from the ideal. Funny and resilient Wiza, a second wife deserted by her husband, is determined to find ideal marriage p

Season 4

• E1: Tribes of Europe: 1: Forgiving the Blood (1992-09-18) — As civil war rages in the Balkans, in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo an Albanian farmer faces an agonising dilemma. Should he follow his ancient code of honour and take revenge on
• E2: Tribes of Europe: 2: Without a City Wall (1992-09-25) — The Abrahamses have returned to Berlin after 50 years in Russia. Stefan Brandt and his half-sister Irmgard Wittkuhn were separated by the Berlin Wall for 30 years. Together they no
• E3: Tribes of Europe: 3: Ninety-Minute Patriots (1992-10-02) — On the Isle of Mull, Macleans from around the world celebrate their clan gathering. All claim allegiance to Scotland, though few have Scottish accents. In Possilpark, Glaswegians c

Season 5

• E1: Monday's Girls (1993-05-13) — Now that they are old enough to get married, it is time for Florence and Azikiye to go through their Nigerian tribe's time-honoured Iria ceremony. Confined in the "fattening rooms"
• E2: The Tenth Dancer (1993-05-20) — Under the brutal regime of Pol Pot, more than 90% of Cambodia's artists were killed. Ballet teacher Em Theay survived, and has returned to Phnom Penh to rebuild the ballet school a
• E3: Boys from Brazil (1993-05-27) — Over the past ten years something strange has been happening on the midnight streets of many Mediterranean cities. Local prostitutes have been ousted by "travestis" – illegal Brazi
• E4: The Sultan's Burden (1993-06-03) — Sultan Issa Maigari of Cameroon used to hold the power of life and death over his one million subjects. Now his authority is ebbing away. The government won't let him raise his own
• E5: The Dragon Bride (1993-06-10) — The marriage of a teenage girl to four brothers aged from 8 to 16 is not unusual among the Nyinba people. They live in a rugged and remote corner of the Nepalese Himalayas, and thi
• E6: Fighting for the Holy Family (1993-06-17) — At the Holy Family Golden Gloves Amateur Boxing Club in North Belfast, Catholic and Protestant boys train side by side, hoping for success and an escape from the troubled streets.
• E7: Dreams from the Forest (1993-06-24) — There are only 150 Mehinacu left in the world. They live in one village in the middle of the Xingu Reserve in Central Brazil. Forty years ago they were first contacted by the 'Whit
• E8: Diamonds in the Vegetable Market (1993-07-01) — Travellers stuck on a long-distance bus journey in India may well find themselves being entertained by peddlers and clowns. Afsar sells home-made cures and potions, but takes parac
• E9: Slaves of the River (1993-07-08) — Abdur Rahman is at the mercy of the river Bhramaputra. He depends on it for his livelihood, but once a year it threatens to kill him. Like tens of thousands of Bangladeshi fisherfo
• E10: The Cat and the Mouse (1993-07-15) — China has occupied Tibet for 40 years. While the Dalai Lama advocates the country's cause on the international stage, consulting people like John Cleese, a group of exiled radicals

Season 6

• E1: Dream Girls (1994-06-26) — The Takarazuka Revue is a highly successful musical theatre troupe in which all the actors are women. If they want to get married, they have to resign. The compensation is stardom
• E2: Bull Magic (1994-07-03) — Bull-racing on the Indonesian islands of Sapudi and Madura is both a test of manhood and a statement of identity. We follow two young jockeys as they prepare for the annual tournam
• E3: Theatre of War (1994-07-10) — Founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, France's prestigious St Cyr military school brands Frenchness into the hearts and souls of young officers using theatrical rituals and initia
• E4: Guardians of the Flutes (1994-07-17) — A documentary about the extraordinary sexual traditions of the Sambia people of Papua New Guinea. Boys as young as 7 are taken away from their mothers and introduced to sexual prac
• E5: Women of the Yellow Earth (1994-07-24) — In the Yellow Earth district in northern China, where houses are caves cut into the cliff terraces, two women are about to become neighbors. One, a wife and mother, is being grievo
• E6: My Country (1994-07-31) — Aboriginal stockman Harry Dixon taught white cattleman Grant Martin to hunt and shoot and to understand the land. New laws allow Dixon to claim a plot of land, but water is scarce,
• E7: The Two Worlds of the Innu (1994-08-07) — Ron Huhndorf and Willie Kosiyue are at loggerheads. They are neighbouring Yupitt Indians from an isolated river delta in south-western Alaska. Ron welcomes the discovery and exploi
• E8: Child of the River (1994-08-14) — Thirteen-year-old Uria goes to a Catholic boarding school on the remote Mentawai islands of Indonesia. Twice a year he returns to his home deep in the forest where his father is a
• E9: The Hamar Trilogy: 3: Our Way of Loving (1994-09-08) — It is three years since Duka left home to marry a man she had never met, and she now has two children. Her ambitious husband Sago's aspirations to become rich are thwarted by droug

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How many seasons does Under the Sun have? 11 season(s) with 84 episodes.

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