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Amazon with Bruce Parry (2008)

Documentary

Tracing the giant river from its origins, high in the Andes, to its end, where it meets the sea on Brazil's Atlantic coast, Parry stays with the many and varied tribes who are desperately trying to maintain their way of life in a rapidly disappearing landscape.

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Bruce Parry

Release Date: Mon, Sep 15, 2008

Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 59

Bruce Parry

Himself - Presenter

Season 1:

Episode 1: Episode 1 (Sep 15, 2008)
Bruce Parry begins an epic adventure in the Amazon, following the river from source to sea. The first part of his journey takes him from the source in the High Andes through Peru's dangerous cocaine producing valleys to visit the Ashaninka tribe.

Episode 2: Episode 2 (Sep 22, 2008)
Bruce Parry continues his Amazon adventure, travelling through the jungles of Peru to visit the Achuar people, a remote tribe who are fighting to keep oil companies off their land. He undergoes a profound shamanic ritual in an effort to find his vision. For a taste of the second episode, watch this clip of Bruce heading off to stay with the Achuar.

Episode 3: Episode 3 (Sep 29, 2008)
The former Royal Marine revisits old friends when he meets the Matis tribe, but the reception is lukewarm due to their wariness of outsiders they hold responsible for the diseases that killed many of them. Bruce also meets the loggers who are blamed for cutting down swathes of the forest. Farther along the river, the Marubo tribe prove more lively with dancing and rituals through the night.

Episode 4: Episode 4 (Oct 06, 2008)
Bruce Parry reaches the halfway point of his epic journey in the vast nature reserve of Mamiraua, home to the Amazon's most iconic species. He lives with the Ribeirinho, the river people, and hunts for the Amazon's biggest fish, the Pirarucu.

Episode 5: Episode 5 (Oct 13, 2008)
Bruce Parry explores the wealth of the Amazon rainforest. He parties with the millionaires of Manaus, the Amazon's biggest city, and lives and works with illegal gold miners.

Episode 6: Episode 6 (Oct 20, 2008)
Bruce Parry reaches the end of his Amazon adventure in Brazil's Para state where huge areas of forest are being cut down for cattle farming. Here the battle for the Amazon is at its most fierce and Bruce sees both sides living with the cowboys and the Kayapo Indians.