Benito Arévalo is an onaya: a traditional healer in a Shipibo-Konibo community in Peruvian Amazonia. He explains something of the onaya tradition, and how he came to drink the plant medicine ayahuasca under his father's tutelage. Arévalo leads an ayahuasca ceremony for Westerners, and shares with us something of his understanding of the plants and the onaya tradition.

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

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

Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decoloniza...

Because we're only doing this once, and because we know not everyone could get tickets, we are proud...

50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the wor...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

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

Nominated for an Emmy® Award in 2021 for best non fiction special. Winner of 35 grand jury awards. ...

The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the...