Amazon Rainforest Movies

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.

American tourists at SpiritQuest Sanctuary, a medicine lodge in Peru, share their thoughts about the traditional medicine ayahuasca, and their...

Yo hablo a Caracas (1978), the first documentary by Carlos Azpúrua, is marked by the luminous presence of the Yekuana shaman Barné...

A young girl, seeking to unravel the mystery of her father's death, travels through the Amazon jungle into a nightmare of danger.

The supermarket chains used to seem unbeatable, capturing the lion’s share of the grocery market. But for some years now they have been in...

A black and white film about the people who live near one of the world’s largest hydroelectric plants in Amazonia. In the shadow of this...

Beautifully shot, alternately joyful and horrifying, Alma captures the ecological, and even spiritual, cost of meat, dairy, and leather production in...

In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decades into the Amazon rainforest to search for a...

Don Emilio is a humble, 63-year-old man who lives in the Amazon rainforest, seven miles from the city of Iquitos, Peru. For all of his adult life he...

An environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the...

Oil extraction in the Amazon region is contaminating the land and water of a natural paradise. A slow process that threatens the health and...

Struggling with a mid-life crisis, Robert Oelman leaves his psychology career in the early 1990s to photograph rare and exotic insects. After moving...

Sinfonia Amazônica, or Amazon Symphony, was Brazil's first animated feature-length film, produced entirely by Anélio Lattini Filho over...

The climate is changing, and the Indigenous peoples of the Xingu Indigenous Park, in Mato Grosso, Brazil, are reading the signs everywhere. Trees no...

A Shipibo boy is raised by his grandparents in direct contact with the Amazon forest and its inhabitants, whom he respects and considered part of...

Thomas Dekker is a diamond cutter attempting to reclaim his right to a portion of a rubber empire in the early part of the twentieth century. Tom...

A film crew tracks a group of researchers and their breakthrough disease research. While battling through the rain-forest, things turn deadly leaving...

A documentary film about one woman's incredible life journey to meet and build a relationship with Ayahuasca. Her name is Tatiana Aya...

Explore an extraordinary region where water and land life intermingle six months out of the year.