The People of Paradise is a six-part documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 series produced and presented by David Attenborough

David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...

. The series exhibits the people and geography of Oceania

Oceania

Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

; particularly, of Fiji

Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

 and Tonga

Tonga

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

. BBC1 transmitted The People of Paradise in 1960.

The year the series aired, Harper & Brothers

Harper & Brothers

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 published a corresponding book, People of Paradise, in the United States. Its Library of Congress catalog card number is 61-10234.

Episodes

1. "The Land Divers of Pentecost"
2. "Cargo Cult"
3. "The Firewalkers of Fiji"
4. "Outer Islands Of Fiji"
5. "Canoes and Coconut Crabs"
6. "Royal Tonga"

See also

• Archipelago
  Archipelago
  An archipelago , sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago...
  
  
• Cargo cult
  Cargo cult
  A cargo cult is a religious practice that has appeared in many traditional pre-industrial tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults focus on obtaining the material wealth of the advanced culture through magic and religious rituals and practices...
  
  
• Coconut crab
  Coconut crab
  The coconut crab, Birgus latro, is a species of terrestrial hermit crab, also known as the robber crab or palm thief. It is the largest land-living arthropod in the world, and is probably at the upper size limit of terrestrial animals with exoskeletons in today's atmosphere at a weight of up to...
  
  
• Firewalking