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N ovember 1944: Army airmen lay out in a B-24 bomber on what must have been an easy mission from the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese fleet—and were shot down. If they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island’s mountainous interior. A band of loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the hostile Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks risk vicious reprisals to receive the airmen safely home? The tribal leaders’ unprecedented decision led to a desperate game of hide-and-seek, and, ultimately, the return of your long-renounced ritual: head-hunting.

A cinematic survival story that has a bamboo airstrip built on the rice paddy, a mad British major, and a blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last Japanese strongholds, The Airmen and the Headhunters is a gripping, you-are-there journey into the remote world and forgotten heroism of the Dayaks.