Amazon Rainforest Movies

A series of suicides among youths who had to travel far from home to go to school, shocked their indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon. They...

Across the Amazon, Indigenous guards are unarmed patrols that peacefully defend ancestral territories against threats like oil, mining and poaching....

Psychologist and anthropologist Alberto Villoldo talks with traditional healers of Madre de Dios, a department within in Peruvian Amazonia. They and...

The challenges to keep the forest standing

Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahuasca, the psychoactive plant brew that has been...

Hamilton Souther is the founder of Blue Morpho Tours, a company that caters to ayahuasca tourists in the Peruvian Amazon. Souther talks about the...

Scenes of daily life in the Indian communities of Ecuador.

Three people fly from Chile and Spain to Iquitos, Peru to experience the magic of the sacred plant ayahuasca.

The documentary recreates the mythical journey made by the native peoples of Sarayaku in the Amazon, who navigated down the river for months until...

The film presents aspects of Rio Negro and Rio Branco, showing the services of Dr. H. Rice's expedition.

“El Río” aims to illustrate the unique relationship between the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon and their land. By...

It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer....

Sachamama is a retreat lodge in Peruvian Amazonia. There, Francisco Montes leads ayahuasca ceremonies for tourists seeking insight and healing.

Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, called "flying rivers", fascinate researchers. Their...

The Amazon plays a vital part in regulating the planet's temperature. Yet, last year, forest destruction in the Brazilian Amazon soared by 85 per...

Peer through the lenses of some of the world's most celebrated nature and wildlife photographers and descend into the Amiga River Basin, the largest...

Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian...