The Enigma of Nasca (1999)
• January 1st, 1999 • 0h 46min
History, Documentary
Overview
Join a team of archaeologists and the Discovery Channel in an investigation into the mysterious lines of the Nazca region in Peru. Created by the Nazcas, these huge sculptures are only visible from the sky and depict people, animal, geometric forms, and strange creatures. See a premier exhibition of pottery and textiles, musical instruments, and mummies from this long-forgotten, pre-Columbian civilization and visit Cahuachi, a buried city of pyramids and ceremonial buildings which may have once been the religious capital of the Nazca people
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Irreplaceables: Dance Movie
Released on: 2019-05-09
Documentary
Join Dance Moms stars, Kendall Vertes, Chloe Lukasiak, and Kalani Hilliker as they perform on The Ir...
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival
Released on: 1979-03-14
Documentary
Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more t...
The Lord of Sipan
Released on: 2009-04-27
Documentary, History
The tombs of the grand lords of Moche civilization - one of Peru's most important pre-Hispanic civil...
Woven Songs of the Amazon
Released on: 2007-01-01
Documentary
The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art...
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Released on: 1972-12-29
History, Adventure, Drama
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...
Touching the Void
Released on: 2003-09-05
Documentary, Action, Adventure, Drama
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...
Phantoms of the Sierra Madre
Released on: 2024-09-20
Documentary, History
A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that ferven...
Dancing with the Incas
Released on: 1992-01-01
Documentary
Documentary about the most popular music of the Andes -- Huayno music -- and explores the lives of t...
The Last Shaman
Released on: 2017-05-12
Documentary
James, giving himself 12 months before he has "a license to kill himself," sets off to the Amazon ra...
Secrets of the Andean Temples: On the Trail of Viracocha
Released on: 2017-01-01
Documentary
Thousands of years before the Inca, a megalithic civilization was founded at Lake Titicaca which spr...
Great Inca Rebellion
Released on: 2007-01-01
Documentary
Through a mix of crime-lab science, archeology, and history, this NOVA/National Geographic special p...
Perú: Tesoro Escondido
Released on: 2017-11-09
Documentary
Peru is a country steeped in cultural traditions that stretch back more than 1,000 years. But it's a...
The Mystery of the Rascar Capac Mummy
Released on: 2019-12-14
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has le...
Machu Picchu Decoded
Released on: 2010-07-05
Documentary
Deep in the Andean mountains lays a mysterious ruin named Machu Picchu. For 400 years it sat abandon...
Nazca Desert Mystery
Released on: 2022-11-02
Documentary
One of the world’s greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossing l...
Heaven Earth
Released on: 2008-09-21
Documentary
This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), an...
The True Story of Pirates
Released on: 2022-12-31
Documentary, TV Movie
Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...
Llanganati
Released on: 2017-04-19
Documentary, Adventure
The documentary follows an expedition led by the adventurer and photographer Jorge Juan Anhalzer, in...
Lost Temple of The Inca
Released on: 2020-02-09
Documentary, History, Mystery
In the mountains of Peru, an environmental scientist discovers ancient artifacts submerged beneath t...