Vuoden 1916 Lontoossa, viktoriaanisia arvoja vaaliva tutkimusseura ei hyväksy joukkoonsa naistutkijoita, joten tohtori Lily Houghton joutuu käyttämään veljeään asiamiehenään etsiessään tutkimusretkikuntaa Amazonille. Sisarusten isä oli tunnettu tutkimusmatkailija, joka etsi parantavia voimia kantavaa ikiaikaista puuta - sen kukilla saattaa olla tärkeä rooli tulevaisuuden lääketieteessä. Lily on aivan varma, että hän pystyy löytämään puun mystisen nuolenkärjen avulla. Kun retkikunta ei saa tieteellistä tukea, lähtevät Lily ja MacGregor omatoimisesti kohti Amazonin jättimäistä viidakkoa. Siellä kaksikko törmää pikkulaivaansa kipparoivaan Frank Wolffiin, jonka he palkkaavat johdattamaan heidät kohti Amazonin sydäntä. He kohtaavat sademetsän petollisen kauniissa kätköissä lukemattomia vaanivia vaaroja ja yliluonnollisia voimia. Kun heidän etsimänsä puun salaisuudet ovat vihdoin paljastumassa, panokset kohoavat kattoon ja koko ihmiskunnan kohtalo on vaakalaudalla.
Luontofilmiä kuvaava ryhmä joutuu mielipuolen metsästäjän vangiksi. Metsästäjä pakottaa ryhmän mukaansa jahtaamaan maailman suurinta ja vaarallisinta käärmettä.
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.
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
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?
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.
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.
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...
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.
Amazonin eliöstö on maailman monipuolisinta. Joen syvyyksissä on sähköinen tunnelma: mutaisen veden uumenissa on mitä oudoimman muotoisia kaloja, jotka ovat erikoistuneet mitä kummallisimpiin elämänmuotoihin. Nämä sähköiset superkalat voivat viestiä toisilleen ja hallita toisiaan sähkön avulla ja antaa sähköiskuja, jotka voivat pysäyttää ihmissydämen.
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.
Lopez, is an explorer who finds gold in the jungle. Before returning to the city, he is bitten by a poisonous snake. In the midst of his despair, he finds a sage who has the cure for his problem. However, he must pass all the tests that he puts to him.
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.