Amazon Rainforest Movies

Documentary about a road being built in the Amazonian rainforest, and the effect it has on the native population.

The imagination of history in Ecuador never thought that oil, “its redeeming hope”, discovered in the Lago Agrio No. 1 well, was going to...

Psychologist and anthropologist Alberto Villoldo talks with traditional healers of Madre de Dios, a department within in Peruvian Amazonia. They and...

The film presents aspects of Rio Negro and Rio Branco, showing the services of Dr. H. Rice's expedition.

Faced with the advancement of eucalyptus plantations, a farmer and an indigenous community stand as resistance and reveal the impact of monoculture...

Emilia, a young widow, is traveling by river to Islandia with her young daughter, Irina, in the 1950s. Because the river is low, they are stranded in...

Steeped in the long oral tradition of Waorani storytelling, Gange Yeti shares her own coming-of-age story as a young Waorani woman living deep within...

Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian...

This film dives into the world of Amazon, its story and view of the world. It offers a large social fresco backed up by an in-depth investigation...

A road trip of sorts between the Amazon forest in Brazil and the controlled nature of Belgium.

The challenges to keep the forest standing

“El Río” aims to illustrate the unique relationship between the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon and their land. By...

Brazilian documentary short about the life of Edna — actress of Iracema —.

A series of suicides among youths who had to travel far from home to go to school, shocked their indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon. They...

Every two weeks, the world loses a language and with it, a piece of human history. Ese Eja is one of the language in danger of extinction. Many...

A troubled boy seeks the aid of his favorite super-hero to combat his bully problem.

Beautifully shot, alternately joyful and horrifying, Alma captures the ecological, and even spiritual, cost of meat, dairy, and leather production in...