Spears from All Sides (2019)
• June 2nd, 2019 • 1h 30min
Documentary
Overview
Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon – with the aid of spears. Then Christian missionaries entered the thick rain forest and paved the way for an oil company. Nowadays many of the tribes are estranged as some want to benefit from the short-term money the company is offering while others fight to preserve their land, culture and independence under all circumstances.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher
Released on: 2023-10-17
Documentary
Part oral history and part visual poem, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is the story of Evelyn Campbell,...
Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
Released on: 2017-02-19
Documentary
The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cris...
Our Children's River
Released on: 2023-09-21
Documentary
Across the Amazon, Indigenous guards are unarmed patrols that peacefully defend ancestral territorie...
The Lost Children
Released on: 2024-11-13
Documentary
After a plane crash, four indigenous children fight to survive in the Colombian Amazon using ancestr...
Iwianch, the Devil Deer
Released on: 2021-03-11
Documentary
An enigmatic presence haunts the depths of the Amazon rainforest, where an indigenous Achuar teenage...
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
Released on: 1975-01-01
Documentary
Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the...
The Shaman & Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms
Released on: 2010-01-01
Documentary
Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahu...
Our People Will Be Healed
Released on: 2017-09-07
Documentary
Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decoloniza...
Teatro Amazonas: The Art of Sound and Nature
Released on: 2022-09-05
Documentary, History, TV Movie
The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rai...
Amazon
Released on: 1997-01-01
Documentary
Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vit...
Wërapara
Released on: 2023-06-22
Documentary
Amidst the Colombian Andes, a group of trans women from the Embera Chami community make their way in...
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...
One Heart: One Spirit
Released on: 2017-07-15
Documentary
An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thomps...
LaDonna Harris: Indian 101
Released on: 2014-03-29
Documentary
A documentary film about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native polit...
One of Many
Released on: 2004-03-15
Documentary
A woman with indiginous roots in her 40s goes on a trip into her past: When she was four years old s...
The Return
Released on: 2021-06-05
Documentary
It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebra...
Galapagos with David Attenborough
Released on: 2013-04-17
Documentary
Two hundred years after Charles Darwin set foot on the shores of the Galápagos Islands, David Attenb...
Our Indians
Released on: 1995-01-16
Documentary
Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - feature...