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.
Best friends travel though Latin America meeting shamans, experimenting with plant medicines, and wo...
A botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to ...
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...
The Athos peninsula in Greece is one of Europe's last secrets. Over 2000 monks live on Athos - cut o...
Across the Amazon, Indigenous guards are unarmed patrols that peacefully defend ancestral territorie...
A travelogue along the scenic highways of Cape Breton Island—particularily along the Cabot Trail nea...
A New Yorker journeys to the jungle in the Darien Gap of Panama to reconnect with an indigenous trib...
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to desi...
Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, ...
An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of lif...
James, giving himself 12 months before he has "a license to kill himself," sets off to the Amazon ra...
The 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as th...
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...
Back in 2012 I had my very first Ayahuasca ceremony and, needless to say, I was terrified. But it en...
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
MAXIMÓN - Devil or Saint is a documentary about the controversial Maya deity, also known as San Simo...
After a plane crash, four indigenous children fight to survive in the Colombian Amazon using ancestr...
A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by cha...
By drawing a parallel between the Indian Durga Puja festival and other forms of celebrating the divi...
Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal struct...