Known as the Tamu, the Gurung of central Nepal’s Annapurna hills are famed for their Gurkha soldiers, the trance-dance Ghatu, and a religion blending Buddhism, Bon, and the shaman.

A small nation that gave the world monotheism and survived two thousand years of exile and persecution. The story of the Jewish people, their faith and language, the long diaspora, the Holocaust, and the return to a contested homeland.

Inventors of democracy, philosophy, and rational inquiry, heirs of Byzantium and survivors of Ottoman rule, the Greeks carry one of humanity longest and greatest stories across three thousand years.

The story of the Mordvins, the largest and oldest Finno-Ugric people of the Volga, made up of the two nations of the Erzya and the Moksha, each with its own language, dress, and identity.

Divided by language and shadowed by a brutal colonial past, the Belgians built a prosperous, peaceful nation on compromise, good living, and a wry refusal to take themselves too seriously.

At the heart of Europe, the Germans gave the world Bach, Kant, and Einstein, fell into the abyss of Nazism, and rebuilt themselves as a democracy that confronts its history. An honest, in-depth portrait.

Heirs of Romans and Visigoths, of the Muslims and Jews of al-Andalus, and of a global empire, the Spanish are a people forged at the crossroads of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

An honest, in-depth look at the Sami people of Sapmi — their origins, languages, history of survival, and cultural revival across the European Arctic.

The Welsh are the keepers of an older Britain, speaking one of Europe’s oldest living languages. A grounded look at their Celtic origins, conquest, and language revival.