CONTENTS
1.The poor peasant and the magistrate - Egypt – around 2050 BCE
2.'The forest is large enough for a secret army' - Nottinghamshire, England – 1195 - film
3.Father and son - Mali – 13th century - film
4.The poet dreams – Karaburun, West Turkey – about 1400
5.Decline of the empire - a village on Java, Indonesia – early sixteenth century (1)
6.Challenging the sovereign - Tuban, Java, Indonesia – early sixteenth century (2)
7.Blinded - a small village in Japan – sixteenth century - film
8.The old samurai - a Japanese village – 1586 - film
9. Simplicissimus - a forest in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany – about 1630
10.The courage of the Ceddo - a village in Senegal – around 1700 - film
11.The poison - Haiti – around 1785 (1)
12.Roast chestnuts - a village in Berry, in the centre of France – around 1790
13.Little Fadette chuckles - a village in Berry, in the centre of France – around 1792
14.Land surveyors - Haiti – around 1835 (2)
15.The angel and the sailing ship - a valley in Ireland – 1846
16.'Narayama is waiting for us' - a remote mountain village in Japan –
in the 19th century - film
17.Praise poets – South African villages – nineteenth century
18.Black or white? - Queensland, North Australia – about 1860
19.'He is not your enemy' - a village in Liberia – around 1860 (1)
20.Bison hunting - Prairie in Colorado, United States – 1863 (1)
21.The holy forest desecrated - Prairie in Colorado, United States – 1863 (2)
22.Almost drowned - a village in Victoria, Australia – 1866 (1)
23.'What a miserable damn life!' - a fishing village on the coast of Sicily, Italy – 1867
24.Little Joey - a remote hamlet in Wyoming, United States – around 1870 - film
25.Birth party - New South Wales, Australia – 1879 (2)
26.The crossing - a river in Iceland – 1879
27.Silver lining - a small village in Massachusetts, United States – 1884
28.'We will drive out the whites now!' - a village in South-east Nigeria – around 1885
29.Bandits and assassins - a village in the north of Mexico – around 1890 - film
30.There is war in the air - a village in Liberia – around 1890 (2)
31.Cricket, a children's game? - a village in Gujarat, India – 1893 - film
32.The reindeer - a remote farm in the marshlands of Iceland – 1899 (1)
33.Fear - a fishing village, the Netherlands – 1900
34.Peasant Nand on his deathbed - Flanders, Belgium – about 1900
35.Famine - Anhui Province, China – around 1900 (1)
36.Poor people in the big city - Anhui Province, China – around 1900 (2)
37.The fur trapper - Siberia, Russia – 1902 - film
38.Two hundred guilders in advance - a village in Friesland, the Netherlands – 1902
39.Piano tuner - Norway – 1906
40.Weeding the flax field - a village in Flanders, Belgium – 1907
41.First farm-maid, then woman farmer - a small mountain village in Austria -
around 1910 - film
42.The icy cold water - a small Hutsul village in the Carpathians, Ukraine - around 1910 - film
43.Trapped to work in the jungle camp - Chiapas, South Mexico – around 1910 (1)
44.Aunty Modesta - Chiapas, South Mexico – around 1910 (2)
45.The verdict of Modesta - Chiapas, South Mexico – around 1910 (3)
46.Machine gun - Chiapas, South Mexico – around 1910 (4)
47.Peaceful sunshine - Chiapas, South Mexico – around 1910 (5)
48.Houtekiet - a village in Flanders, Belgium – around 1910
49.'Now it is my turn' - Bahia, North-east Brazil – 1910 - film
50.'Do you think that money grows on trees in my garden?' - South-east Nigeria –
around 1910 (1)
51.The disobedient girl - South-east Nigeria – around 1910 (2)
52.As free as a bird - an estate in Hungary – 1910 (1)
53.Olmo is growing up - an estate in Northern Italy – 1910 (1) - film
54.Independent after thirty years - a remote farm in the marshlands of Iceland – 1911 (2)
55.'Saint Isidore, don't desert us!' - a mountain village in Peru – 1912 (1)
56.Serf or free servant? - an estate in Hungary – 1912 (2)
57.Forest Fire - a hamlet in New South Wales, Australia – 1914 (1)
58.My padrino - the pampas of Argentina – 1916
59.Deserters - Romania – autumn 1917 (1)
60.Pioneer - a remote village in Norway – 1917
61.A shepherd joins the Reds - Steppe in the Don Valley, Southern Russia – spring 1918 (2)
62.Zapata, the beloved peasant leader - Morelos, South Mexico – 1919 - film
63.Gas masks - a small village in Wales, United Kingdom – 1919
64.The civil war is still not over - a hamlet in the Don Valley, Southern Russia –
summer 1920 (3)
65.La Rosa Blanca - a hacienda in Veracruz, Mexico – 1920
66.Partisans - Mongolia – 1920 - film
67.The good bandit - Taurus mountains, Turkey – around 1920
68.The high priest stands alone - South-east Nigeria – the 1920s
69.The cavalry unit turns around - a village in Northern Italy – 1920 (2) - film
70.Shadow-puma - mountain region in Peru – around 1920 (1)
71.The founding of a union - a small village near a fjord in Iceland – 1921
72.Rich for a few years - a remote farm in the marshlands of Iceland – 1922 (3)
73.Famine - mountain region in Peru – around 1922 (2)
74.Black bombs - Anatolia, Turkey – 1922
75.Sokugo, the wandering disease - savanna region, Nigeria – about 1925
76.Moving - a mountain village in Peru – 1926 (2)
77.Priest or donkey? - Fontamara, a village in Abruzzo, Southern Italy – 1928 (1)
78.Land reform in reverse - Fontamara, a village in Abruzzo, Southern Italy – 1929 (2)
79.The road - a village in Peru – 1930 (1)
80.Misitu, the holy bull - a mountain village in Peru – around 1930 (2)
81.Discord in the village - a village in Kenya – about 1930
82.The mother - a hamlet in the Zhejiang Province, China – about 1930
83.Finally a cow! - Uttar Pradesh, India – 1930s (1)
84.The cow did bring along nothing but problems - Uttar Pradesh, India – 1930s (2)
85.Dreaming of a small farm of your own - California, United States – 1930s
86.Crab hunt - Gaomi District, Shandong Province, China – 1934 (1)
87.Failure - a hamlet in New South Wales, Australia – about 1935 (2)
88.'Our reindeer are your reindeer' - mountain region in the north of Sweden – 1930s - film
89.Sciatàp - a village in Abruzzo, Southern Italy – 1935
90.Driven away by the bulldozers - Oklahoma, United States – around 1935 (1)
91.Nightmare - California, United States – around 1935 (2)
92.Happy years - a village in Maharashtra, India – 1937 - film
93.The fox ghost - Gaomi District, Shandong Province, China – 1937 (2)
94.The village priest no longer understands - a village in Aragon, Spain – 1937
95.Father Sebastião - North-east Brazil – 1938 - film
96.Underground resistance - a village south of Nanjing, China – 1938
97.The Indian peasant leader - a hacienda in Peru – 1938
98.The beast - a hamlet in Northern Italy – 1941
99.On the run - Pernambuco, North-east Brazil – 1942 - film
100.The nightmare of Efock - a village in Senegal – 1942 - film
101.Remorse - a village in Belarus – 1943 - film
102.Cheese sandwich - The Netherlands – 1945
103.Sheep thieves - Sardinia, Italy – 1945 (1)
104.Locusts - Sardinia, Italy – 1945 (2)
105.The wizard and the prince - a village in Western Africa – 1946
106.Village schoolteacher - a village in Anatolia, Turkey – 1948 (1)
107.The bullock is worn out - a village in Anatolia, Turkey – 1948 (2)
108.A brawl, and a new insight - a village on the coast of Sicily, Italy – 1948 - film
109.A real friend - a village in Northern Italy – 1948
110.The zamindar takes the land of a peasant - West Bengal, India – around 1950 - film
111.'The most beautiful land in the whole country' - a little village in Kenya – 1950
112.The old fisherman - a fishing village on the coast of Cuba – 1951
113.The olives are ripe - refugee camp in Jenin, Palestine – 1953
114.The bride price - a village in South-east Nigeria – 1953
115.The sea god favours them - a small Japanese island – 1954
116.Class analysis - a small village in Vietnam – 1955 (1)
117.'Half is half' - Sardinia, Italy – 1956 (3)
118.The basis of my life - a village in Cameroon – 1958 (1)
119.Revenge - a village in Cameroon – 1958 (2)
120.'First they take your land and then your children' - French Alps – 1960
121.The sly muhtar - Taurus Mountains, Turkey – around 1960 (1)
122.The saint - Taurus Mountains, Turkey – around 1960 (2)
123.Nobody talks to the muhtar any more - Taurus Mountains, Turkey – around 1960 (3)
124.A griot never keeps his mouth shut - Santhiu-Niaye, West Senegal – 1965
125.Come back to your own Acoli people - Northern Uganda – 1966 (1)
126.Aunty is a goddess - Gaomi District, Shandong Province, China – 1967 (1)
127.The secret agreement - a village in Western Africa – 1968
128.First a goddess, now a demon - Gaomi District, Shandong Province, China – 1970 (2)
129.The investigation team - Bihar, India - 1970
130.Progress - Northern Uganda – 1970 (2)
131.A lizard on my arm - a bush in Australia – 1971 - film
132.Impossible plans - a nature reserve in Wyoming, US – 1973 - film
133.'It was never my dream' - Goías, Brazil – 1974 - film
134.From another world - French Alps – 1975
135.A flock of sheep in the capital - Anatolia and Ankara, Turkey – 1978 - film
136.Soldiers at the border - Şanlıurfa Province, South-eastern Turkey – 1980
137.'Take me back' - Gaomi District, Shandong Province, China – 1985 (3)
138.'Don't worry' - Burkina Faso – 1986 - film
139.The garlic rebellion - Shandong Province, China – 1986
140.Sana, a witch? - a village in Burkina Faso – 1989 - film
141.Mayor Duong - a small village in Vietnam – 1989 (2)
142.Saga is still alive! - a village in Burkina Faso – 1990 - film
143.Rolling in money - a village in Burkina Faso – 1990 - film
144.Hunting festival - Bihar, India - 1992
145.The mysterious bird - a small village in Madhya Pradesh, India – 1993
146.The missing girl - a village in Anatolia, Turkey – 1995
147.Foster children - a village in Zimbabwe – 1996 - film
148.Not one student less - a hamlet in Hebei Province, China – 1997 - film
149.The Baobab - a village in the Sahel, Africa – 1999
150.Ayoub - a hamlet in Central Morocco – 1999 - film
151.Reconciliation - Gobi Desert, Mongolia – 2003 - film
152.Protection - a small village in Burkina Faso – 2004 - film
153.The tree of grandpa- Castellón, Spanje – 2006 - film
154.The young shaman - Mato Grosso do Sul, South-west Brazil – 2008 - film
155.Whiplashes - a small nomad camp in Mali – 2012 - film
156.Paradise and hell - a hamlet in Colombia – 2014 - film
157.Temporary island - River Inguri, Georgia/Abkhazia – 2014 - film
158.Happiness and sorrows - Pakistan – 2014 - film
159. The volcano - Ixcanul, Guatemala – 2015 - film
160. 'Let me leave' - a village in Rajasthan, India – 2015 - film
161. Smoke and ash – Colombia – 2015 - film
162. Cured - a village in Anatolia, Turkey – 2015 - film
163. 'This is our land' - a village in the north of Russia – 2016 - film
164. Line of demarcation - Korea – 2016 - film
165. So familiar - Paraguay – 2016 - film
166. Wolves - a hamlet in Afghanistan – 2016 - film
167. The old bull - a village in Ningxia province, China – 2016 - film
168. The petty thief and his grandma - a village in Burkina Faso – 2017 - film
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