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- DirectorCiro GuerraStarsNilbio TorresJan BijvoetAntonio BolívarThe story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
- DirectorMel GibsonStarsGerardo TaracenaRaoul Max TrujilloDalia HernándezAs the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.
- DirectorGeorge P. CosmatosStarsSylvester StalloneRichard CrennaCharles NapierRambo returns to the jungles of Vietnam on a mission to infiltrate an enemy base-camp and rescue the American POWs still held captive there.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsRobert De NiroJeremy IronsRay McAnallyEighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsYves MontandCharles VanelPeter van EyckIn a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsRoy ScheiderBruno CremerFrancisco RabalFour unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.
- DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerCarl WeathersKevin Peter HallA team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsPowers BootheMeg FosterYara VaneauAfter the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.
- DirectorDavid ShapiroLaurie Gwen ShapiroStarsTobias SchneebaumNorman MailerMichael RockefellerA retired gay anthropologist revisits the native cultures he studied in his youth.
- DirectorJim HanonStarsLouie LeonardoChad AllenJack GuzmanTwo people come to the end of a spear in order to realize that the divisions between them are not real.
- DirectorHector BabencoStarsTom BerengerJohn LithgowDaryl HannahMartin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?
- DirectorPancho KohnerStarsJohn HustonCharles RobinsonKaty JuradoIn this sequel to THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, John Huston portrays a tequila-swigging crocodile hunter who heads into the jungles of Mexico. He has been warned that only native Indians can survive there...
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsTim RothJohn MalkovichIsaach De BankoléA trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiRuy GuerraHelena RojoIn the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
- DirectorAlberto Vázquez FigueroaStarsFabio TestiAgostina BelliJorge RiveroAt the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
- DirectorLes BlankStarsWerner HerzogKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleA documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael DouglasKathleen TurnerDanny DeVitoA mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsRentarô MikuniShôji YasuiTatsuya MihashiA conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsKôji IshizakaKiichi NakaiTakuzô KawataniAfter becoming separated from his platoon, a Japanese soldier dons a Buddhist monk's robe and tends to the bodies of the many war casualties strewn across the countryside.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsSteve McQueenDustin HoffmanVictor JoryA French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
- DirectorHugh HudsonStarsChristopher LambertAndie MacDowellRalph RichardsonA missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsSam NeillLaura DernJeff GoldblumA pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
- DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsSean ConneryLorraine BraccoJosé WilkerIn the beautiful and dangerous Amazon rainforest, dissimilar people must make their choices between business, science, and love.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordKaren AllenPaul FreemanIn 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsArduíno ColassantiAna Maria MagalhãesEduardo Imbassahy FilhoIn 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the Tupinambás and, in spite of his trial to convince them that he is French, they believe he is Portuguese. The Frenchman becomes their slave, and maritally lives with Seboipepe (Ana Maria Magalhães). *Contains Spoilers* Later, he uses powder in the cannons that the Portuguese left behind to defeat the Tupiniquins in a battle. In order to celebrate the victory, the Indians decide to eat him.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsRobert KermanFrancesca CiardiPerry PirkanenDuring a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsDiogo InfanteFloriano PeixotoLuciana RigueiraA young Portuguese cartographer in the 18th century finds new forms of love, war and a wild new world in an expedition into South American heart.
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsHarrison FordHelen MirrenRiver PhoenixAn inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartKatharine HepburnRobert MorleyIn WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.
- DirectorMarco BechisStarsClaudio SantamariaAlicélia Batista CabreiraChiara CaselliWhen a tribe of indigenous Guarani Indians attempts to re-inhabit their ancestral land, which lies on the border of a wealthy landowner's fields, tensions escalate.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsTanya RobertsTed WassDonovan ScottSheena grew up in the African wild, raised by a mystical witch woman. When her foster mother is framed for a murder Sheena is forced to flee, helped by her ability to talk to animals and her knowledge of the jungle.
- DirectorAndré Luiz OliveiraStarsTatauTaíse CostaRoberto BonfimIn order to earn a warrior name, the son of Araguaia chief wanders the forest, falls in love with a girl from the Tocantins tribe, and defeats their bravest warrior. When his true identity is discovered, he makes a deal: promises to fight the Tapuias, another tribe which threatens the Tocantins, marries the Indian girl and establishes the Ubirajara nation.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsRichard ChamberlainSharon StoneHerbert LomFortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
- DirectorNicolás IpamoAlejandro NozaIván SanjinésStarsAntonia GualujnaMaria VeronicaA logging company enters the indigenous community of Beni in Bolivia and begins logging. They hire local people make promises of the benefits they will receive, but the Indians gradually become aware of the logging company's deceptions and rapacious behavior, and they drive them out. This marks the beginning of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Beni.
- DirectorFranco RubartelliStarsArantza FuentesEmilio FuentesFlor NúñezPepiwe, it's a yanomami indian that runs away to reunite with his tribe and family, but in the middle of his journey in the jungle he finds a nun, that he mistakes for a ghost. The nun ask him to take her to Rio Negro.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsGiovanni Lombardo RadiceLorraine De SelleDanilo MatteiThree friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsOmero AntonuttiEusebio PoncelaLambert WilsonThe film tells the epic story of an expedition that took place between 1560 and 1561, headed by Pedro de Ursúa, in search of "El Dorado." The territory they explored subsequently became Colombia. Three hundred men sold their property and souls to travel down the biggest and least known river in the world. After the rebellion of Lope de Aguirre (who took over command) against Philip II, the king of Spain, this expedition became one of the best-known episodes in the conquest of "The New World." Accompanied by a team of all types, Lope de Aguirre's adventure will end in tragedy, exposing the full range of human miseries.
- DirectorCedric GibbonsJames C. McKayJack ConwayStarsJohnny WeissmullerMaureen O'SullivanNeil HamiltonThe idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well.
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsBanlop LomnoiSakda KaewbuadeeHuai DessomA romance between a soldier and a country boy, wrapped around a Thai folk-tale involving a shaman with shape-shifting abilities.
- DirectorPeter BrookStarsJames AubreyTom ChapinHugh EdwardsSchoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.
- DirectorHarry HookStarsBalthazar GettyChris FurrhDanuel PipolyStranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSimone SignoretGeorges MarchalCharles VanelAdventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, which incites the miners to revolt, but they're defeated. Shark, Father Lizzardi, Castin, his daughter, and Djin, a whore Castin loves, flee into the jungle and fight for their lives.
- DirectorLuis Alberto LamataStarsCosme CortázarFrancis RuedaAlexander MilicAt early 16th century a priest joins the Spanish colonizers in order to bring Christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the priest, first tries to continue christianization, but finally becomes one of them - until the Spaniards return.
- DirectorLuís Alberto PereiraStarsCarlos EvelynAriana MessiasDarci FigueiredoOn the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not Portuguese (their enemies) but a friend of the French (their allies), and that his God would be very angry if they were to eat him.
- DirectorIrving PichelErnest B. SchoedsackStarsJoel McCreaFay WrayLeslie BanksA psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsBurt LancasterMichael YorkNigel DavenportA shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsRobert KermanJanet AgrenIvan RassimovA young woman teams up with a mercenary to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea where they find that a deranged leader of a religious cult has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsCharles LaughtonBela LugosiRichard ArlenA mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
- DirectorMikael SalomonStarsSean BeanCorey SevierSam ClaflinAfter a global cataclysm, mankind has degraded to a tribal society. In one of the tribes there is a disagreement about what is the best way to survive.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsUrsula AndressStacy KeachClaudio CassinelliA woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the jungle.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsMassimo FoschiMe Me LaiIvan RassimovAn oil prospector is captured and imprisoned by a violent and primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippines' rain forest. He manages to escape with a female hostage, and begins searching for his missing companion and their airplane.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsEiji FunakoshiMantarô UshioYoshihiro HamaguchiIn the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation.
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsCharlton HestonEleanor ParkerAbraham SofaerThe Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
- DirectorMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsFay WrayRobert ArmstrongBruce CabotA film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
- DirectorGareth EdwardsStarsScoot McNairyWhitney AbleMario Zuniga BenavidesSix years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsJohnny WeissmullerBrenda JoyceJohnny SheffieldA group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsJohnny WeissmullerNeil HamiltonC. Aubrey SmithA trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
- DirectorCedric GibbonsJames C. McKayJack ConwayStarsJohnny WeissmullerMaureen O'SullivanNeil HamiltonThe idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well.
- DirectorAndrew TrauckiStarsIgusti BudianthikaSerena DeanAgung PindhaAn Indonesian "forest demon" stalks the members of an expedition group on a mission to locate and tag the mythical Javan Leopard deep in the rain-forest.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsRay TaylorStarsEdward NorrisEddie QuillanDouglass DumbrilleDuring World War II, the German high command sends agents into an African jungle to stir up the local Tongghili tribes against the British.
- DirectorIvan ReitmanStarsHarrison FordAnne HecheDavid SchwimmerRobin Monroe, a New York magazine editor, and the gruff pilot Quinn Harris must put aside their mutual dislike if they are to survive after crash landing on a deserted South Seas island.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsSigourney WeaverBryan BrownJulie HarrisThe story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsLaura GemserGabriele TintiNieves NavarroPhotojournalist Emanuelle is joined by an anthropologist, two female missionary workers and a treacherous hunter's party in a search for an Amazon cannibal tribe long thought extinct.
- DirectorErnest B. SchoedsackStarsTerry MooreBen JohnsonRobert ArmstrongA young woman who has raised a giant gorilla from an infant brings him to Hollywood years later seeking her fortune.
- DirectorChristopher M. BessetteStarsMartie AshworthDenielle BroerMatthew CastagnaShake is a powerful shaman of the Yanomami people. He wields his power to heal and to protect his people against their enemies in this world and beyond. Tracing his life and the life of his community over 40 years of their history, Shake tells how he and his people grapple with new ideas that come from the outside world and the challenging decisions they make in order to maintain their identity and survive as a people.
- DirectorSteve CarverStarsMichael DudikoffDonald PleasenceRobert VaughnIn 1965 a guide in the Amazon leads people to a lost city in search of a mad Nazi doctor.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsClaudette ColbertHerbert MarshallMary BolandFour passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild animals and attacks by primitive tribesmen.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsLeonardo DiCaprioDjimon HounsouJennifer ConnellyA fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRichard CarlsonJulie AdamsRichard DenningA strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
- DirectorAntoine FuquaStarsBruce WillisCole HauserMonica BellucciA Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if they agree to save 70 refugees too.
- DirectorCarter SmithStarsShawn AshmoreJena MaloneJonathan TuckerA leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsSabuJoseph CalleiaJohn QualenA boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life.
- DirectorLuis LlosaStarsJon VoightJennifer LopezEric StoltzA "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who forces them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsChester MorrisLucille BallWendy BarrieA plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsSara GarcíaDavid SilvaMalú GaticaA small disparate group of people are aboard a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires. Beyond the crew of pilot, Roberto Beltrán, a loner, his co-pilot Carlos Cervantes who is always looking for love, and Paco the flight steward, the passengers are: spoiled and rich Jorge Mancera and his innocent fiancée Margarita Téllez, who are posing as a businessman and his secretary but who are really running away to elope in Venezuela; elderly Marta Ortos and her henpecked husband, Professor Enrique Ortos, a botanist and anthropologist, the two who probably only have stayed married for as long as they have out of inertia; "Pibe", a young adolescent boy who is traveling with his male nanny, Pedro, ahead of the boy's professional polo playing father who will join them in Buenos Aires on a later flight; Lucy Alcázar, who most of the other passengers believe to be a trollop as a young woman traveling alone; and Sr. Ibáñez, a bounty hunter, who is transporting Sr. Vázquez, a bank robber and murderer, back to Argentina, the country of the crimes, so that Ibáñez can collect his reward and Vázquez face certain execution. On the second leg of the flight, the plane is thrown far off course in a tropical storm, and combined with mechanical difficulties, they are forced to crash land somewhere in the jungle. Those that live through the crash have to band together for their survival, they needing to figure out if the natural order of their civilized lives applies in who will do what, most specifically who will make the important decisions. The plane may be repairable, but as time progresses and they learn of certain hazards in the area, they will have to make some difficult decisions in this matter, and in matters that may affect life or will affect certain death.
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsLex BarkerVirginia HustonGeorge MacreadyEscaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsIvan RassimovMe Me LaiPrasitsak SingharaAfter a photographer is captured by a primitive tribe, his life is spared and he's accepted into the village after the chief's daughter falls for him, but he has to survive the jungle's harsh life, including the cannibals.
- DirectorPaul LandresStarsArthur FranzKathleen CrowleyRobert BrownCarol Dahlmann enlists the Hollister brothers to help locate her missing husband. The husband was tracking a fallen satellite through the jungle. While tracking him down, the trio discover an unusually strong acid killing animals and people.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsRay TaylorStarsEdward NorrisEddie QuillanDouglass DumbrilleDuring World War II, the German high command sends agents into an African jungle to stir up the local Tongghili tribes against the British.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsSimón AndreuKali HansaMaría KostyAn African expedition encounters vampires at the site of an ancient sacrificial altar.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsLisa BlountLeonard MannWillie AamesA reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Joan BennettJohn HowardIn the jungles of the Amazon, a group of Western adventurers and two local native guides try to locate a lost treasure buried beneath an ancient Incan city.
- DirectorHoward W. KochStarsLex BarkerMari BlanchardJames WesterfieldJapanese fifth columnists create havoc in the industries and plantations of Pre-Pearl Harbor Hawaii, until an American doctor helps defeat them.
- DirectorCharles Marquis WarrenStarsJohn HowardMala PowersPaul RichardsA millionaire leads an expedition into a remote jungle to find his wife's long-lost brother, but instead the group finds a mad scientist who has created a fungus monster that feeds on the local inhabitants.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsSusan HaywardRobert MitchumWalter SlezakIn 1907, a nurse arrives in the Belgian Congo to work for a missionary doctor but meets a grumpy animal hunter who secretly plans to search for gold in the dangerous Bakuba tribal region.
- DirectorEdoardo MulargiaStarsAnthony SteffenAjita WilsonCristina LayAbused female prisoners at an all-women's prison camp in the tropics plot revenge against their sadistic overseers.
- DirectorRené Cardona Jr.StarsStuart WhitmanDonald PleasenceBradford DillmanThree groups of adventurers all vying to find treasure in the jungle clash against each other, the merciless natives, and the dangerous wildlife.
- DirectorDickie JobsonStarsCountrymanHiram KellerCarl BradshawA young American couple crash-lands their plane in Jamaica. A fisherman rescues them and leads them away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, to gain popularity in an upcoming election.
- DirectorSturla GunnarssonStarsEmily NashMichael RileyLiisa Repo-Martell100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
- DirectorFabrice du WelzStarsEmmanuelle BéartRufus SewellPetch OsathanugrahA couple are looking for their child who was lost in the tsunami - their search takes them to the dangerous Thai-Burmese waters, and then into the jungle, where they face unknown but horrifying dangers.
- DirectorPeter von PuttkamerStarsJohn KirkWilliam LowtherCharles MannLegendary explorer Col. Percy Fawcett takes his son and friend to the Brazilian Amazon to find an ancient civilization: The Lost City of Z. In 1925, he disappears forever. Modern explorer Niall McCann travels to Brazil to solve the mystery.
- DirectorChristoph SchwaigerStarsMarion CotillardGrégoire LejoncIn June 2010, Greenpeace took Oscar-winning actress, Marion Cotillard, to visit the tropical rainforests in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Travelling by pirogue (a small wooden boat), she witnessed the destruction caused by logging first hand. International logging companies are plundering the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo and causing social chaos for many of the 40 million-odd people who depend on the rainforests for their livelihoods but whose voices are ignored. While the logging companies trade (often illegally logged) timber, avoid taxes, bribe officials and cheat local people out of invaluable forest resources in exchange for a few bags of salt, the forests themselves - and the many endangered species that live in them - are in jeopardy.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsRaul JuliaCarmen ArgenzianoSonia BragaBased on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder.
- DirectorMike DePrezStarsBruce BarronMarshall PickardMartin PonteAmerican Explorers Bruce Barron and Marshall Pickard led a life-threatening expedition into the Amazon Jungle to trace the footsteps of renowned British Explorer Percy H. Fawcett.
- DirectorSarah BegumStarsSarah BegumLauren MaddoxThe Huaorani TribeBritish Explorer, Sarah Begum follows her childhood dream at the age of 21, travelling deep into the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest to live with the legendary Huaorani tribe and immerse in their ancient way of life. Sarah hunts and gathers with warriors, captures their stories and struggles whilst investigating into the impacts of modernity on their culture. Through a defining challenge, she becomes one of the tribe to send their message about protecting their land from exploitation.
- DirectorCurt SiodmakStarsJohn BromfieldBeverly GarlandTom PayneA doctor and an adventurer journey to the Amazon, where they encounter a man in a bizarre bird costume terrorizing the local indigenous population.
- CreatorMauricio KatzPedro PeiranoStarsHansel RamírezFrancisco de la RegueraThanya LópezA deadly outbreak affects the south of the country, so the police and and health authorities sends three young doctors to vaccinate people across the region and teach preventive health measures. When they reach a village called Aquazul, the population is mysteriously apprehensive and even the town doctor warns them not to try to vaccinate the inhabitants, but the doctors insist. Thus begins a series of strange events--extraordinary phenomena outside reality, all related to a famous "boy" who confronts his rigid scientific arguments against the possibilities of faith.