Lily viaja de Londres para a selva Amazónica e recruta os serviços questionáveis de Frank, para a guiar pelo rio abaixo, no La Quila – o seu charmoso barco que se está a desfazer. Ela está determinada a encontrar uma árvore antiga com capacidades de cura inigualáveis, que pode mudar o futuro da medicina. Impulsionados por esta jornada épica, a improvável dupla vai encontrar inúmeros perigos e forças sobrenaturais, todos à espreita na beleza enganadora da exuberante floresta tropical. Mas à medida que os segredos da árvore vão sendo revelados, os riscos tornam-se cada vez maiores para Lily e Frank e o seu destino, assim como o da humanidade, estará em jogo.
Uma equipa de filmagens liderada pelo realizador Terri Flores e pelo antropologista Steve Cale viajam ao longo de um rio a fim de encontrarem uma misteriosa tribo de índios para fazerem um documentário sobre eles. Ao salvarem um homem de morrer afogado, ele oferece-se para procurar com eles a tribo de índios. Na realidade, ele é Paul Sarone, um caçador de serpentes que anda à procura da lendária serpente anaconda. Quando Cale é picado por um mosquito, Sarone, toma o comando do barco e faz deles reféns levando-os numa louca e terrível viagem a fim de capturarem a anaconda gigante...
No século XVI, uma expedição de conquistadores espanhois se embranha na parte peruana da selva amazônica em busca de Eldorado, o reino de ouro perdido. Um ambicioso aventureiro, Lope de Aguirre, derruba do comando seu superior e passa a dar ordens a um grupo de pessoas que se separa dos demais para cumprir uma missão. Porém, aos poucos, a selva vai provocando loucura e obsessão, além de dizimar os membros da expedição.
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
Um casal de missionários e seu filho pequeno embrenham-se na selva amazônica brasileira para catequisar índios ainda arredios à noção de Deus. Martin Quarrier (Aidan Quinn) é sociólogo e termina sendo motivado pelas experiências de outro casal, os Huben. As intenções religiosas e a harmonia entre brancos e índios no local ficam instáveis devido à presença de Lewis Moon (Tom Berenger), um mercenário descendente dos índios americanos.
A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon.
Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before...
The Amazon is one of the wildest and least explored parts of the planet. Encompassing 6 countries and 2 million square miles of forest, river and floodplain, it has the highest diversity of life on the planet, but what lies below it is truly shocking. In its deep muddy rivers, clear streams and expansive floodplains a freak-show of fish life has exploded, with some of the strangest shapes and weirdest adaptations on Earth. Hiding in the vast rivers and streams is an electric grid, a bizarre community of fish with a highly sophisticated electric sixth sense. Using electricity, these "Super" fish can communicate wirelessly, control each other remotely and emit shocks that can stop a human heart. This cryptic world has mystified scientists throughout the ages. Now an intrepid scientist, Will Crampton ventures back into the dark jungles where the inspiration for our technology driven world first emerged, in an attempt to unravel their secrets and unlock the electric code.
Little boy Henry Clayton Jr. survives a plane crash in the untamed Amazon jungle. However, he's discovered by a tribe of vicious savages who plan on sacrificing him. Meanwhile, Henry's father ventures into the jungle to find the missing lad before it's too late.
The electric eel lives in the fresh waters of the Amazon Basin. It can give an electrical discharge capable of killing a horse. This eel can locate fish by means of "radar," then captures its prey by knocking it out with a violent shock of electricity. In Experience With an Eel, Dr. Irwin Moon and his lab assistants demonstrate the eel's electrical shocking power. The study of the electric eel helps to answer many questions concerning the relationship of science and the Word of God.
Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and among other wonderful images from the beginning of the 20th century with alternating close-up shots of caimans, jaguars and tropical flora with footage of Indigenous rituals--including some of the earliest known moving images of the Indigenous Witoto people--and longer sequences showcasing the region’s extractive industries: rubber, the Brazil nut, timber, fishing, even the egret feathers that were a staple of women’s fashion at the time.
The documentary recreates the mythical journey made by the native peoples of Sarayaku in the Amazon, who navigated down the river for months until they reached Kachi Urku, the mountain of salt.