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Birds of Paradise: The Ultimate Quest

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  • 2017-2017
  • 1 Season
  • Documentary
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Frank is in a wheelchair and has a long held dream to see the birds of paradise in Papua New Guinea. His friend, Benedict, a well traveled adventurer, and a team of people including many local people, attempt to get him through the rugged lands to where the birds can be seen. It not only follows their physical journey but their own emotional journeys as well. This documentary has many honest, self filmed, insights into their individual thoughts about themselves and each other.

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Benedict Allen
Self
Frank Gardner
Self

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Episode 1

Episode #1.1

Frank Gardner has dreamed of seeing birds of paradise since he was a young child. Together with Benedict Allen they set out on an incredible journey, through some of the most inhospitable terrain on the planet, to make it up into the cloud forest where the birds live. Benedict is determined to get Frank there despite the wheelchair. But as they approach Benedict's old village, brutal secrets from the past come back to haunt him. And Frank hears that in nearby hills he might get an early sighting of a bird of paradise.

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