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- The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
- A small plane carrying fossil hunters crashes in the Amazon jungle, and the survivors must battle their way through cannibals, wild animals, and slave traders.
- A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
- The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe. Television is their enemy as they go from the coast deep into the Amazon. Salomé lets the accordion player sleep with her once, with Dasdô's knowledge. He's moon-struck. Then, after Dasdô's baby is born and financial disaster hits the troupe, and the accordionist must choose between seeing his wife a prostitute and leaving the caravan.
- A poignant portrayal of the diverse group of native people who endeavour to save what is left of the Brazilian Amazon. It dissects the economic drivers that fuel large-scale environmental destruction, while exposing the corruption.
- In 2002, 12-year-old Maria, living in dire poverty with her family, is sold by her fisherman father to prostitute recruiter Seu Tadeu, who takes her to a low-class brothel in the Amazon region. While she suffers innumerable abuses, Maria only thinks of escaping the horrible conditions she's faced with.
- When a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land and an uncontacted group living deep within the forest.
- A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons. Meanwhile, other white men penetrate the Brazilian jungle, wishing to find and take the legendary Amazons' treasure.
- A promotional video for his 1995 song "Earth Song".
- A gorgeous American arrives in Brazilian headhunter country seeking her scapegrace fiancé.
- Shankar, an adventurer, teams up with Anna Florian and her father to travel a thousand miles and fight off every danger to reach the mythical city of El Dorado.
- Jason and Adam are brothers who specialize in jewel heists. Jason is betrayed by Adam, who steals his girlfriend, and has him beaten and left for dead. A female doctor nurses him back to health, and he sets about planning his revenge.
- After a plane crash, Saï, a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity, finds himself alone and lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle.
- Collection of Michael Jackson's music videos from the period 1983-1997. Mainly focused post-1995 era, including videos such as "Scream" and "They Don't Care About Us."
- This documentary chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.
- Uýra, a trans-indigenous artist travels through the Amazon forest on a journey of self-discovery using performance art and ancestral messages to teach indigenous youth and confront structural racism and transphobia in Brazil.
- The "Earth's Natural Wonders" series tells the stories of some of our planet's most spectacular places and how they have shaped the lives of those who live there.
- Broken Spectre is the culmination of three years of painstaking documentation, using a wide range of scientific imaging and sound technologies to capture environmental crimes in the world's most crucial yet ignored ecological war zone. Broken Spectre is presented across an immersive 20-metre widescreen panorama and 12 channel sound system utilizing different visually arresting strategies to depict the unfolding crisis; each shifting in scale and focus to convey these urgent environmental fault lines more powerfully.
- CHILDREN OF THE AMAZON follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart. Zmekhol's cinematic journey combines intimate interviews with her personal and poetic meditation on environmental devastation, resistance, and renewal.
- Swedish mondo movie. An expedition goes hunting for a giant snake in the Amazon jungle. Very prejudiced against the indigenous people of the Amazon. Followed by Jangada, situated in the same jungle.
- Painful family events lead Augusta to leave Italy. On a small boat, immersed in the Amazon Forest grandness, she travels among the Indian villages. From the favela to the isolation in the Forest, Augusta goes in search of herself.
- The Bureau of Indian Affairs denounced a massacre in Corumbiara, where the investigations turned to a series of genocides. After 20 years of search for proof, the survivors were found hiding in the forest, terrified of white men.
- This documentary gets inside the world of the most fearsome Indians of the Amazonia so called Korubo. The cameras will be able to shoot for the first time the daily life of this secret Brazilian tribe. The gratitude allowed our cameras to shoot their daily life including amazing moments such as the electric fish hunt or enjoying the children's games.
- Ex-drug dealer is forced to go back to business by a corrupt policeman. He must go to Colombia and bring back some cocaine, but discovers the whole thing is a set up. He then devises a suicidal plan for revenge.
- The film is a journey through images to the end of the world as we know it and to an immersion with the world that we have chosen not to know, but without which we will no longer exist.
- This series (Amazonia: Last Call) travels across Brazilian landscapes by way of one of the main links still binding the essence of humanity with the Earth: the Amazon. The filming of the first point of contact with an isolated race, the Zo'E, the encroachment on areas of the Amazonian forest previously uncaptured on film, the evidence relating to the development of the illegal trafficking of species or the recording of the immeasurable value of Brazil's natural spaces; these are just excerpts from the series. The underlying theme is the conflict between the development and conservation of one of the key natural areas underpinning the stability of the planet.
- Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos about the Amazon region from the beginning of the 20th century with rare and unique footage of floral, fauna, and Indigenous Witoto people along with showcasing the region's early industries.
- A documentary that shows the impacts of the construction of the Belo Monte plant on the Xingu River in Pará, Brazil.
- This is one of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects, and as such it is a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. Napoleon Chagnon, who lived among the Yanomamö for 36 months over a period of eight years, is shown in various roles as "fieldworker": entering a village armed with arrows and adorned with feathers; sharing coffee with the shaman Dedeheiwa who recounts the myth of fire; dispensing eyedrops to a baby and accepting in turn a shaman's cure for his own illness; collecting voluminous genealogies; making tapes, maps, Polaroid photos; and attempting to analyze such patterns as village fission, migration, and aggression. The commentary touches on the problems of the fieldworker (all the genealogies compiled in the first year were based on false data, and had to be discarded). Between the image and the commentary we also glimpse some of the ambiguities of the anthropologist's role and his relation to the subjects of his study, for example in the tension between mutual exploitation and reciprocity. The film complements Chagnon's book on his fieldwork, Studying the Yanomamö.
- From strange birds to fierce insects, bizarre amphibians, shrewd monkeys and majestic trees, this series explores the Amazon rain-forest's densely-packed and complex environment.
- An epic adventure into an underground science and an unstoppable passion. Earthworm scientists concoct a plan to find and name their ultimate discovery...the world's first Super Worm. Nothing will stop them as they travel to all corners of the world with spades, GPS worm locators and secret worm outing fluids to unearth their prize. Winner of multiple film festival awards.
- Contemporary "conquistadores" continue the search for the gold of El Dorado. Docegeto, the Brazilian mining company discovered gold deposits while exploiting the mineral resources of the Amazon jungle. Impoverished Brazilians, lured by the promise of quick fortune, flocked to the area to stake out claims. The prospector enclaves are miniatures of the Brazilian society at large, wealth determining human worth. A labyrinth of ladders connects the crazy-quilt of claims, a busy anthill patrolled by military police. Most claims are worthless; many fortune-hunters wind up toiling like medieval serfs for the lucky few who struck it rich. The government has declared the region off-limits for women, arms and alcohol. Predictably just outside of the military barriers , boom-town bar districts have sprouted up. And here the small profits scratched together by the gold diggers are quickly gone.
- The Shuar indigenous community in Ecuador's Morona and Pastaza province resolutely opposes the tangible threats posed by oil extraction in their territories. This resistance is grounded in firsthand observations of the ecological devastation wrought by oil corporations in the Corrientes river basin.
- In May 2011, a gathering of 320 individuals from 18 ethnic groups residing in the basin and along the course of the Xingu River was convened by the Vivo Para Semper movement, with support from Amazon Watch. Hosted in the settlement of Piaraçu near the banks of the Xingu River, the purpose of the meeting was to engage in a constructive dialogue regarding the ongoing violation of basic human rights and the environmental disaster posed by the construction of the Belo Monte dam. This dam threatens to submerge 500 km² of pristine forest, home to an estimated 50,000 people from numerous tribes. Through this meeting, participants forged a simple yet unified force in their efforts to halt the construction of the dam.
- Renew your love affair with nature discovering the new Amazon women warriors of Brazil. From the beautiful Yamarikuman Indian ritual in the jungle to the brave urban visionaries who face even death threats to protect the rain forests, a new world of balance is rising.
- In three symbolic places of a global production, "Spirits I've called" describes the impact of the mining and steel industry on the fragile natural balances and on the health of people living close to the production sites.
- Large uncontrolled fires and flames have severely damaged the Amazon rainforests of Brazil in the summer of 2019 and destroyed countless trees. The main cause of the fires seems to be the man-made slash-and-burn. The drought, which has lasted for months, favors the situation. Likewise, the radical policy of the new Brazilian government under right-wing populist President Jair Bolsonaro contributes to the destruction of the Amazon jungles. When the green lung of the earth burns, not only experts and international politicians are terrified. Protecting the world's unique ecosystem is of vital importance to all people of the world. The film examines the current environmental and humanitarian catastrophe in the Amazon region and gives voice to environmental activists as well as relativizing proponents of the fires.
- CAVE OF BONES - An Underground and Underwater Amazonian Adventure
- Accompanied by James Cameron, members of Amazon Watch returned to the Brazilian rainforest, this time extending an invitation to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The team revisited the settlement of Arara in the endangered section of the Xingu River, known as the Big Bend (Volta Grande). There, they engaged with local inhabitants, Chief Raoni, world-renowned scientists, climate experts, and leaders of the Xingu Vivo Para Sempre movement. Their resounding message remains unchanged: 'We urge the Brazilian government to halt the construction of the Belo Monte dam and prioritize genuine energy alternatives!'
- The Amazon ecosystem, and especially the rain forest, is considered one of the world's most complex animal and vegetable habitats. Its most important characteristics are the sheer number of different animal and plant species, and the extraordinary variations in macro and micro-habitats. In this park alone, over 100 species of tree per hectare have been identified. To give us some idea of the scale of this number, in the richest, densest jungles of Central America, the equivalent figure is no more than 40. Until about a year ago, Ñame and his family lived in Quehueiriono, on of the most important settlements along the Shiripuno, a tributary of the Napo. But natural resources were running out, and were not enough to feed the 160 members of the community. So, Ñame decided to move out, and settle in a different place, two days walk from Quehueiriono.