Movies and TvShows featuring "iquitos-peru" theme.

In the 19th century, Fitzcarraldo, a man with an overwhelming ambition to build an opera house in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, navigates his way through treacherous waters and battles with the harsh reality of the jungle.

Burden of Dreams is a documentary that follows the tumultuous production of the film "Fitzcarraldo" directed by Werner Herzog. The film explores the challenges faced by the director and his crew during the shooting in the Amazon rainforest.

In 1980s Peru, a journalist's baby is stolen after childbirth. She embarks on an investigative journey to uncover the truth behind the corruption and social injustice plaguing the country. Through her relentless pursuit, she exposes the dark underbelly of the political violence and shines a light on the plight of the indigenous people.

Don Emilio is a humble, 63-year-old man who lives in the Amazon rainforest, seven miles from the city of Iquitos, Peru. For all of his adult life he has worked as a curandero and vegetalista, a traditional healer. He estimates that in his career he has treated more than 2,500 clients. Through the camera lens of anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna, Don Emilio tells us about his practice, his beliefs, his community, and his life. He shows us how he prepares ayahuasca and other herbal medicines. Finally, we see Don Emilio treat a man who has come to him for help, and hear from a poor woman who has brought her infant son for medical care.

Los Fabulosos Wembler's de Iquitos are a mythical Amazonian cumbia band from Iquitos with more than half a century of history that fights to prevail in their hometown and in Peru, while being widely recognized abroad.

A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru.

This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers talk with two ayahuasqueros, Percy Garcia and Ron Wheelock, as well as ayuahuasca tourists and local people connected with the ayahuasca industry.