Presenting a selection of outstanding feature-length travel and adventure films reflecting man's curiosity in the world around him.

The story of a perilous 1,000-mile expedition across the uncharted interior of West Irian, formerly Dutch New Guinea, where head-hunters and cannibals bear witness to a hitherto unknown Stone Age civilisation.
This journey was undertaken by a Franco-Dutch team of seven, together with some sixty bearers and a military escort of four soldiers. Among the sights they observed were the fearsome rites of the Severed Head Ceremony. The team succeeded in capturing enthralling close-ups of many other curious rites and customs of ethnic groups which had no previous knowledge of the outside world, but the dangers from such savages were no greater than the hazards of the jagged mountain country and disease-infested jungle. Three of the bearers died en route, eight were injured by mishaps, and twenty-two brought low by illness.
The film won an Oscar as the best feature-length documentary of 1962
(Colour)