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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Intermingling artistic performances ranging from an iceberg in the Arctic Glacial Ocean to a ceremonial dance with indigenous Tuyucas in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon, the film records interviews with indigenous leaders, scientists and researchers who help us to understand the gravity and urgency of the global climate situation. Using the instigating power of his art, Thiago Cóstackz installed temporary artworks and spoke with names ranging from Pajé Bire Huni Kuin of the Kaxinawa ethnic group to the activist and explorer Céline Cousteau, passing by scientists such as Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, Paulo Artaxo and Olafur Ingolfsson. Through science, accurate data and his own poetry, Thiago Cóstackz takes us on this journey in which he faced "The Earth Head-On".
- On 3% of the Earth's surface, the rain forest is the habitat for half our animal species, even 80% of insects. So its wildlife is most competitive, like the birds of paradise's mating, and specialized with unique relationships of predation, parasitism etc. For plants, the quest for light is key to stratification, paralleled by interacting animals eating fruits, leaves and other animals. Even the jungle cacophony is stratified. On the soil, recycling specialist like fungi restart the cycle of life. In Central Africa even herds of elephants specialize in following self-made forest paths.
- CULTZONE CHANNEL Session Pindorama is a television station about nature, science, technology, communications, learning, education and preparation for ENEM
- Richard Hammond is on the mighty Amazon itself, leaving the main river to enter the flooded forest in tiny dug-out canoes. It soon becomes apparent that the inhabitants of the Amazon are not keen to play ball when Richard struggles to even see the creatures spotted by his guide Eduardo, let alone photograph them. However, hours of frustration are finally rewarded when Richard enjoys once-in-a-lifetime encounters with sloths and Pink River Dolphins.
- This time Richard will be facing biting ants, overcoming a personal phobia when he comes face-to-face with giant spiders, and tries to conquer his fear of heights when he is hoisted high into the forest canopy.