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Five-part series of 30-minute programmes in which Mike deGruy and Kate Humble lead an international team of scientists and divers as they search for species new to science in the Amazon River. They discover...
Scott Pelley reports on a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over oil drilling pollution. Chevron is America’s third largest company behind ExxonMobil and WalMart. One way it became that big was by buying Texaco...
In this series, anthropologist and adventurer Bruce Parry journeys the length and breadth of the largest river in the world - the Amazon. Tracing the giant river from its origins high in the Andes to its...
In the past tourism in Brazil was all about sun and sand. Now Brazil is actively promoting the Amazon as an attraction with the aim of bringing money and jobs to the locals. Asks how tourism will affect one...
Looks at the importance of the Amazon region in Brazil and what development means for the region. The four section of the video focus on: the forest - the eco-system of the Amazon; human occupation; the...
Examines the changes that the Amazon rainforest is undergoing. Oil companies and settlers are upsetting the delicate balance in the forest, home to indigenous people for ten thousands years. The Huaorani...
Looks at the Huni Kui people who live deep in the Amazonian rainforest in harmony with their environment - a free society who follow the rhythm of the seasons, the rain, the river, the feasts and the farming.
Focuses on the Amazonian Indians’ fierce resistance to multinational oil companies invading and polluting their forests in Ecuador, told through the words of Luis Vargas and two Indian women leaders. Shows...
The story of Brazil’s greatest living explorers, Claudio and Orlando Villas Boas, now both in their 70s, who retrace their 1943 expedition into a then unexplored region of the southern Amazon. Their...
Series examining the political, economic and cultural problems facing the people of the Brazilian Amazon.
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