This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers talk with two ayahuasqueros, Percy Garcia and Ron Wheelock, as well as ayuahuasca tourists and local people connected with the ayahuasca industry.

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

Aya: Awakenings' is an experiential journey by journalist Rak Razam into the world and visions of ay...

The 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as th...

Colorful widescreen travelogue along the Amazon River jungle of Peru, featuring an indigenous villag...

Follows Martin Strel as he attempts to cover 3,375 miles of the Amazon River in what is being billed...

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to desi...

Behind the closed doors of the Copenhagen-based women's shelter, the women and children are slowly r...
Documentary about the most popular music of the Andes -- Huayno music -- and explores the lives of t...

MAXIMÓN - Devil or Saint is a documentary about the controversial Maya deity, also known as San Simo...

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

Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vit...

The explorers Bruce Parry and Mark Anstice climb the remote and little known mountain Puncak Mandala...

A documentary covering Charles de Jaeger and Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's eight-day journey around the w...

Altötting in Bavaria, around 120 km from Regensburg, is a much-visited pilgrimage site. Numerous Cat...

By drawing a parallel between the Indian Durga Puja festival and other forms of celebrating the divi...

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

Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, ...

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

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