15 Jan 2009
Big River Man
Follows Martin Strel as he attempts to cover 3,375 miles of the Amazon River in what is being billed as the world's longest swim.
Mata
Faced with the advancement of eucalyptus plantations, a farmer and an indigenous community stand as resistance and reveal the impact of monoculture on the environment, in contrast to traditional ways of life. The enemy can also be green.
Top Billed Cast
Similar movies
Big River Man Big River Man Woven Songs of the Amazon Woven Songs of the Amazon 01 Jan 2007
Woven Songs of the Amazon
The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called kené. These patterns also have corresponding songs, called icaros, which are integral to the Shipibo way of life. This documentary explores these unique art forms, and one Shipibo family's efforts to safeguard the tradition.
Amazon 
Amazon 01 Jan 1997
Amazon
Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vitality and wonder of the rapidly disappearing rain forest.
Le Mystère des rivières volantes d'Amazonie 
Le Mystère des rivières volantes d'Amazonie 12 Nov 2022
Le Mystère des rivières volantes d'Amazonie
Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, called "flying rivers", fascinate researchers. Their future could be intimately linked to climate change.
Ajishama, The White Ibis 
Ajishama, The White Ibis 01 Jan 2003
Ajishama, The White Ibis
Shot in Venezuela over a 30-year period, this documentary depicts the life and work of José Maria Korta, the controversial Jesuit Missionary with the Ye'kwana people of the Amazon.
Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest 
Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest 10 Jan 1990
Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest
Explore an extraordinary region where water and land life intermingle six months out of the year.
Sachamama Sachamama 19 Dec 2010
Sachamama
Sachamama is a retreat lodge in Peruvian Amazonia. There, Francisco Montes leads ayahuasca ceremonies for tourists seeking insight and healing.
Piripkura 
Piripkura 01 Mar 2018
Piripkura
The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation. Living deep in the rainforest, Pakyî and Tamandua live off the land relying on a machete, an ax, and a torch lit in 1998.
AMAZORIOCA 
AMAZORIOCA AMAZORIOCA
A journey through the Brazilian Amazon, guided by the eyes of Renato, a Carioca turned Amazorioca. A reflection on identity, the legacy of an ancestral territory, and the cost of progress. An ode to the forest and the fragility of what remains.
The Shaman & Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms 
The Shaman & Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms 01 Jan 2010
The Shaman & Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms
Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahuasca, the psychoactive plant brew that has been used for healing and visionary journeys by Amazonian shamans for at least a thousand years.
The Invention of the Other 
The Invention of the Other 19 Nov 2022
The Invention of the Other
In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decades into the Amazon rainforest to search for a group of isolated indigenous people in vulnerability and promote their first contact with non-indigenous. Bruno Pereira, who would later be murdered in the same region and turned into an international symbol in favor of the indigenous and the forest, leads the expedition.
Shamans of the Amazon 
Shamans of the Amazon 01 Jan 2001
Shamans of the Amazon
SHAMANS OF THE AMAZON is a personal account of filmmaker Dean Jefferys as he returns to the Amazon with his partner and one year old daughter. They journey deep into the Ecuadorian rainforest to learn about and experience the ancient ayahuasca healing ceremony. The film brings to the viewer an intimate and fascinating look at the shamans of the Amazon, and the life that is threatened by ecological destruction.
Faut-il avoir peur d'Amazon ? 
Faut-il avoir peur d'Amazon ? 01 Nov 2018
Faut-il avoir peur d'Amazon ?
No overview found
Tears in the Amazon 
Tears in the Amazon 25 Mar 2010
Tears in the Amazon
A documentary about environment destruction in the Amazon and the tribes living there. Produced for the 48th anniversary of MBC, Korea. A brilliant records of the itinerary for 250 days through the Amazon.
Shipibo: Learning Through the Light Shipibo: Learning Through the Light 14 Aug 2018
Shipibo: Learning Through the Light
Shipibo healer Ricardo Amaringo describes how he prepares, teaches, and shares the plant medicine ayahuasca. Olivia and Julian Arévalo sing examples of icaros (healing songs) in the Shipibo language.
Heaven Earth Heaven Earth 21 Sep 2008
Heaven Earth
This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers talk with two ayahuasqueros, Percy Garcia and Ron Wheelock, as well as ayuahuasca tourists and local people connected with the ayahuasca industry.
Curandera 
Curandera 26 Feb 2025
Curandera
A documentary film about one woman's incredible life journey to meet and build a relationship with Ayahuasca. Her name is Tatiana Aya Tupinambá and she chose the path of an Ayahuasca curandera. Travel into the jungle with us near Pucallpa, Peru to meet Tatiana's Ashaninka teacher, Juan Flores. Experience the magical location of Mayantuyacu, where Tatiana's journey of self-discovery and healing blossomed. Mayantuyacu is a world famous healing center and is known for it's incredible unique geothermal river which is the largest boiling river on the planet. Learn about plant 'dietas', see the process of making Ayahuasca, and witness the fascinating practice that is 'Curanderismo', the way of healing in the Amazon rainforest. Understand how the Ayahuasca songs, Icaros, are learned from the plants and connect to force that these vibrational medicines carry.
Burden of Dreams 
Burden of Dreams 01 Oct 1982
Burden of Dreams
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
Une histoire amazonienne 
Une histoire amazonienne 04 Aug 2018
Une histoire amazonienne
No overview found
La ruta de la sal La ruta de la sal La ruta de la sal
The documentary recreates the mythical journey made by the native peoples of Sarayaku in the Amazon, who navigated down the river for months until they reached Kachi Urku, the mountain of salt.