Watch Taboo Season 1 Full Episodes

Taboo looks at rites of passage around the world including a boy's circumcision in South Africa, an Apache's girls ritual of womanhood, and American...

Explore the human fascination with violence as sport, and see how it taps into hidden corners of our common heritage.

Watch as religious beliefs are put to the extreme test through taboo practices that display a common belief: the stronger your faith, the more you...

Delve into the ultimate unknown that awaits us all. Experience how different cultures deal with death by preparing lavish funerals, bonfires, and...

Cross the line of defined gender and plunge into the lives of people living in the gray area of sexuality.

Confront the presence of good and evil and explore the ways some cultures take on evil spirits directly.

Take a trip from traditional acceptance to modern rejection, exploring how drugs are used in ancient cultures and why they are prohibited in modern...

Attend and elaborate--yet illegal--ceremony in India, watch as one man's two wives prepare him for a third bride, and witness same-sex partners...

Take a secret look at our darkest ritual - black magic. Explore the nature of power itself, and how it both elevates and corrupts our species.

Experience the dark side with religion's ultimate outcast. Trace how voodoo has grown in diversity and become taboo, even in cultures where it is...

Explore the art of tattoos from the deadly serious markings of headhunters to bloody scarification rituals in Africa, and on to Western artists who...

Go beyond science to examine the mysterious powers of healers who derive their strength from what other cultures may consider illegitimate or...

Savor the forbidden taste off taboo meals from around the globe, some hilarious others deadly serious. Find out why eating habits--like...