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 6 | Mar , 2005
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IMDB 5 | Dec , 2017
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IMDB 8 | Jan , 2005
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2001
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2025
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2009
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IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 2016
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IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 1997
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IMDB 0 | Jul , 2015
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IMDB 8 | Apr , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 2017
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IMDB 4 | Dec , 2015
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2021
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IMDB 7 | Apr , 2016
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2017
An environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of the Amazon. This film addresses the recent transition from failed rubber to successful soybean cultivation for export, and its implication for land usage.Die Prophezeiung von Qéros
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2020
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 2022
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IMDB 6 | Nov , 2008
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 1937
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