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Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey

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.

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Episode 158 min1988-06-13

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.

Episode 258 min1988-06-27

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.

Episode 358 min1988-07-04

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.

Episode 461 min1988-07-18

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.

Episode 556 min1988-07-25

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.

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Lawrence Blair

Lawrence Blair

Lorne Blair

Lorne Blair

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