The photographs, shot by G. Miranda for Survival International, depict tribespeople—including the Sentinelese—in a remote portion of India, North Sentinel Island, as well as Amazon tribes in Brazil at the Javari River valley near the Peru border.

Since it was released on the Death Island Expeditions YouTube channel in 2018, a film containing images of these uncontacted people has been seen over 3.5 million times.

The film depicts little towns, dwellings, and tribespeople. Some photographs show tribal members armed with bows and arrows, staring directly at the drone or camera equipment.

Some YouTube commenters emphasized the importance of having photographs like these and how drastically different these people’s lives are from the rest of the world’s.

“It’s mind-boggling how different our lives are. They are unaware of the presence of grocery shops, industries, phones, social media, and everything else that makes our civilization what it is.” It’s so surreal,” one person said.

FUNAI, or the National Indian Foundation, is a Brazilian government agency that develops and implements uncontacted indigenous people policies.

It’s also the source of some of the drone footage in the film.

According to a study by Survival International, a human rights organization, the photographs of Brazil’s uncontacted tribespeople were shot in 2008.

“We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,” said José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Jnior, an expert on uncontacted tribes.

In 2008, Meirelles also stated that the region’s uncontacted tribes were at risk from illegal loggers in Peru, which might lead to violence.

“What is happening in this region [of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, and the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the ‘civilized’ ones, treat the world,” he went on to say.

A second documentary, also published today (October 13), digs at the terrible events that resulted in the death of a missionary who encountered the Sentinelese people.

The documentary film The Mission, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, “explores the death of American missionary John Allen Chau, who was killed in 2018 by arrows while attempting to make contact with the tribe.”