Ten Thousand Years Older

Ten Thousand Years Older is a 2002 documentary film by Werner Herzog about the Amondauas (Uru Eus) people of Brazil.

The ten-minute film was produced and included as part of the Ten Minutes Older project,[1] released in the collection The Trumpet.

The film opens with stock footage of the Amondauas' first contact with modern Brazilians in 1981.

Herzog states that they had previously only a "stone age existence", with no knowledge of metalworking.

Within several years, the majority of the tribe had been wiped out, most killed by chicken pox and the common cold.