Documentary
Desperate to recover from his depression, Dave travels from his home in British Columbia, Canada to Peru in order to experience the healing effects of the sacred medicine ayahuasca. After Dave spends some time in the country, a Shipibo healer begins to teach him how to work with the medicine more deeply.
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2024
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IMDB 7 | Aug , 2024
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IMDB 7 | Jan , 1997
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IMDB 0 | Jun , 2022
A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now thar she is entering into adulthood.Rätsel der Urwaldhölle
IMDB 8 | Jun , 1938
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IMDB 8.3 | Dec , 2019
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IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 2021
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IMDB 5.5 | Aug , 2019
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IMDB 7.6 | Jan , 2008
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IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2003
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 2016
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IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 2004
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IMDB 1 | May , 2019
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IMDB 7.6 | Oct , 1982
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1918
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.Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 2019
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IMDB 6.6 | Jan , 2009
Follows Martin Strel as he attempts to cover 3,375 miles of the Amazon River in what is being billed as the world's longest swim.The Shaman & Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms
IMDB 4 | Jan , 2010
Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahuasca, the psychoactive plant brew that has been used for healing and visionary journeys by Amazonian shamans for at least a thousand years.