American tourists at SpiritQuest Sanctuary, a medicine lodge in Peru, share their thoughts about the traditional medicine ayahuasca, and their motivations for drinking it. Don Howard Lawler, founder of SpiritQuest, describes ayahuasca and its beneficial effects, as do the filmmakers themselves.

A botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to ...

Faced with the advancement of eucalyptus plantations, a farmer and an indigenous community stand as ...

James, giving himself 12 months before he has "a license to kill himself," sets off to the Amazon ra...

Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal struct...

Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more t...

Join Dance Moms stars, Kendall Vertes, Chloe Lukasiak, and Kalani Hilliker as they perform on The Ir...
Documentary about the most popular music of the Andes -- Huayno music -- and explores the lives of t...

Back in 2012 I had my very first Ayahuasca ceremony and, needless to say, I was terrified. But it en...

It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebra...

In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decade...

The tombs of the grand lords of Moche civilization - one of Peru's most important pre-Hispanic civil...

Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, calle...

Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vit...
This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), an...

Peru is a country steeped in cultural traditions that stretch back more than 1,000 years. But it's a...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...

Every two weeks, the world loses a language and with it, a piece of human history. Ese Eja is one of...

Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahu...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...