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- After 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.
- An underground world is inhabited by mythical creatures evolved from a deep lineage of Brazilian folklore. One detective who finds himself caught in a murder investigation that puts him in the middle of a battle between these two worlds.
- Martin 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?
- The hosts travel to various destinations around the world. As they do, you view their experiences and listen to their critiques along the way.
- A doctor and an adventurer journey to the Amazon, where they encounter a man in a bizarre bird costume terrorizing the local indigenous population.
- The true and inspiring story of finding triumph over tragedy, injustice, and loss. In 1979, Brooks Douglass and his sister Leslie survived a devastating crime that rocked their community and took their parents' lives. Initially sent into an emotional tailspin Brooks regained his footing, became Oklahoma's youngest state senator, and championed important victims' rights legislation. It is not until his quest for ultimate justice brings him face-to-face with his parents' killer that he must reconcile military training with the lessons of his father to discover the path to finally finding peace.
- The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe. Television is their enemy as they go from the coast deep into the Amazon. Salomé lets the accordion player sleep with her once, with Dasdô's knowledge. He's moon-struck. Then, after Dasdô's baby is born and financial disaster hits the troupe, and the accordionist must choose between seeing his wife a prostitute and leaving the caravan.
- A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
- Martin Strel attempts to cover 3,375 miles of the Amazon River, the longest continuous swim in history.
- A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder. The story of how this happened and how he got into trouble is told in flashback.
- A man's tale of love, obsession, and madness in the Brazilian Amazon. When Arminto returns to his childhood town to meet with his estranged father, he falls in love with a woman from his past. This love proves to be unattainable (and thus irresistible), making Arminto squander both his family inheritance and his sanity. On his path from passion to ruin, Arminto plunges deeper and deeper into the mythical world of the Amazon, turning his own life into fable.
- Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes of a Cousteau production? Find out as the Calypso is readied for an Amazon adventure. A remarkable journey through this still-mysterious kingdom begins as the team goes deep into the Amazon.
- Based on true events Little Secret is a film with three interlocked stories all connected by a single secret that converge to reveal the tragic yet beautiful lives of three families and how hope, dreams and destiny can unite people from very different parts of the world. Adopted at childhood by a loving family after facing the loss of her parents, Kat led a life full of adventures. Now in her teenage years she is trying to fit into a "normal" life, as the world shows her how cruel living can be. After discovering a secret which threatens her life, she wonders if her dreams are still possible. Heloisa is a dedicated mother who has been entrusted with the secret and will do everything to keep her family together; however, she knows that the future is unpredictable. Jeanne, a beautiful young Amazonian native, falls in love with Robert, a New Zealander, with whom he discovers that her possibilities are infinite, however she forgets that destiny has plans of its own. Barbara, an older English woman, who became cold and lonely, is capable of doing anything to get what she wants. When the past knocks on her door, she sets out on a journey to rediscover love. Stories that cross borders and show that in this world people are pulled apart by destiny, racism and tragedy, but can be pulled together by friendship, tolerance and love. An inspiring film that will challenge the way you look at life.
- Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
- Documentary about the masters of the Amazon and the music originated in the region.
- A novelist comes under the spell of a beautiful woman who is rumored to be a legendary Amazon who lures men to their doom.
- Brazilian chef Onildo Rocha returns for another expedition of gastronomic discoveries across Brazil. This time, he will venture into the Amazon region, uncovering not only extraordinary ingredients but also a rich and diverse culture.
- DOC Rainflorest (working title) is a subjective film about the intemperances of nature and about the transformations that the planet has suffered over decades of human production with its fruits that today we all reap.
- The show follows day-to-day life of lifeguards from the military firefighters of Rio de Janeiro on the city's beaches.
- The documentary makes a general approach on "noise pollution" present in daily life in large cities, talks a bit about the dangers of excessive noise and has some curiosity about the sound.
- Living Myths is a TV series with 13 episodes that explores the rich Brazilian popular culture, visiting different regions of the country and bringing myths to life through different forms of art.
- A family from the interior reaches the city in search of its patriarch, then turn to the municipal police station in the hope of finding him. But faced with a welded one delegate stressed and crazy, roll with it much confusion and misunderstandings.
- Documentary about the 100 years of the Paysandú Sport Club.
- The life of a Lebanese immigrant through 50 years in Brazil.
- Behind the look of contemporary LGBTQI+ peripheral youth, we follow different themes that permeate the peripheries from Brazil with interviews of a singular and intimate nature.
- The second adventure in Mike Mag's ongoing series of skate videos. This tale of Man VS Nature cinematically charters a guerrilla skate trip through the Amazon Rainforest region of Brazil. Following Mike Mag, the journey begins in the amazonian rain forest city of Manaus in search of skateboarding in the most unlikely of locations. The quest continues by boat, sailing down the Amazon River to the city of Santarém in search of more of mother natures hidden gems. After surviving a bout with food poisoning, the skate trip carries on down river to the gateway of the Amazon; the magical city of Belém. After a month of exploring what can be skated in the Amazon Rainforest, the crew returns famished but triumphant having completed the skate video in the Amazon.
- This series entry has five feature stories. In Mountainair, New Mexico, juniper trees grow in large numbers. 'Pop' Schaeffer prunes the trees on his property and sculpts the oddly shaped branches into fanciful animals. In Augusta, Illinois, a lady makes fake tails (called "switches") for show horses. Edwin Knapp's factory in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, which manufactures horse-drawn carriages, fell on hard times when the automobile was introduced; but these days he gets so many orders that he has trouble filling them. The next stop is Belém, Brazil, where hammocks are made with machines that use no electricity. The last stop is a training base for the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC), in St. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada. CWAC members receive the same training as men, but will not see combat. Rather, they will fill positions now held by men, so the men can be sent into the field.
- A young boy living in an orphanage in the Amazon, while creating situations to draw the attention of adoptive parents, conceives an imaginary friendship with his only toy, a doll named Shala.
- In this love triangle, a determined woman stops at nothing to get what she wants, while a married man struggles to resist her advances
- The daily life of Brazilian UFC legends outside the octagon.
- This documentary follows a Central and South American expedition led by explorer Lewis Cotlow. The travelogue begins on the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama, where the crew visit the San Blas Indians. The narrator describes their colorful dress and notes that the chief product of the island is coconuts. Continuing their travels to the Port of Belem off the coast of Brazil, the crew take a riverboat up the Amazon River, detouring up a tributary, where they spot many wild birds, including toucans, egrets and papagayos. After a brief encounter with a tribe known as the Bororos, who reveal their fishing techniques, they canoe to a section of the river in Peru to visit the Yagua tribe. Male members of the tribe take the crew on a leopard hunt using blowguns and then return to the camp to celebrate. The next stop is the Guano Islands, off the coast of Peru, where seals and guanyos are prevalent. The crew return to the coast to visit with the Colorados Indians, who use red paste made from a native seed to cover their bodies and that of the narrator's, who joins them in decorating his body. The crew then travel to the western base of the Andes Mountains in search of the "hot-tempered" Jivaro tribe. As a result of the Jivaros' religious beliefs that they must seek revenge for the murder of any member of their own family, they have become headhunters. The narrator describes the entire process, from the murder and decapitation to the boiling water process used to shrink the heads. The film closes with narrator commenting that "only men crueler than nature can survive" in the wild terrain of the Amazon jungle.
- The film tells the story of a young man living in two worlds telling his story in 140 characters limit, this is Paulo Afonso, also known as @Plugadu on social networks. Paulo Afonso, by nick @ Plugadu narrates every moment of your day in an intensive way using the network as a basic tool of communication vital in their day to day, until something happens in the middle of his routine is apparently normal smartphone stolen and this fact triggers the most realistic and absurd journey of his life in pursuit of their beloved gateway to the virtual world, the place where he actually feels safe and master of his actions.
- More than 10 years of research, several trips and visits to museums, film libraries, libraries, public and private collections, and a tireless work of footage and interviews, a film that tells the pre-cinema's history in Brazil, especially in the Amazon, with the city of Belém as the protagonist of this surprising story in an unexpected scenario.
- Clara and Lulu are two children living on the streets, where they undergo various difficulties. To meet their most important needs, such as feed themselves, one of them gets involved in a tragedy.