About
Kim MacQuarrie
Kim MacQuarrie is a multiple Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, cultural anthropologist, and author whose work explores the rise and fall of civilizations, the intersections of culture and power, and the systems that shape human history—and the future.
Educated in France, the U.S., and Peru, MacQuarrie spent five years living in Peru, where he worked with Indigenous Amazonian groups, including the recently-contacted Yora. His time among these communities—and his filming of a nearby ethnic group whose oral traditions recalled contact with the Inca Empire—inspired his internationally acclaimed book, The Last Days of the Incas.
MacQuarrie is the author of five books, including Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries (Simon & Schuster), which follows a 4,500-mile journey from Colombia to Patagonia in search of iconic figures such as Pablo Escobar, Che Guevara, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Charles Darwin, and an Inca “Ice Maiden” sacrificed atop a 20,000-foot volcano.
His books have been translated into a dozen languages, including Chinese, and his films have aired on Discovery, Nat Geo, PBS, FX, and Animal Planet.
He is currently at work on a new book about how civilizations rise, fall, and evolve—linking the past to the systems reshaping our future.