| View Larger Image | Amazon (IMAX) | DVDStarring: Linda Hunt, Jesse Corti, Mark Plotkin, Sydney Possuelo, Adrian Villanueva
Directed By: Kieth Merrill
Also With: Mike Hoover (Cinematographer), Kieth Merrill (Producer), Kieth Merrill (Writer), Stephen L. Johnson (Editor), Isaac Palmer (Producer), Jonathan Stern (Producer), Scott Swofford (Producer), Loren McIntyre (Writer)
| List Price: | $19.99 | | Price: | $14.99 | | You Save: | $5.00 (25%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 38 minutes | | Format: | Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Image Entertainment | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | June 29, 2004 | | Sales Rank: | 23,213rd |
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Description
Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX (R) experience and celebrate the beauty, vitality and wonder of this magical rain forest, which is disappearing at an alarming rate. Filmmakers overcame many difficulties to photograph this rarely seen tropical landscape and present it with all the visual power associated with IMAX. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Linda Hunt, this unique collaboration between an American scientist and a tribal shaman on a mission to find rare medicinal plants will amaze and astound you. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 16 reviews)
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Great docu, amazing picture quality by Koen Oosterbroek (The Netherlands)  4 Stars
February 08, 2009
I live in the netherlands and had it sent overseas. It came here in about two weeks. It's too bad that it's region coded so that way i didnt get to see it on my tv. I played it on my laptop tho and i must say that the quality of the picture and sound are amaaazing to look at. it's super sharp.
the docu shows how intensly beautiful the amazon rainforest is. if you're into this subject, i truly recommend this dvd. running the 'start.bat' file on the dvd didnt work so well since it stopped working multiple times, but playing it in Windows Media Player doesnt give any problems at all.
great docu
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Informative DVD by J. C. Jones (Leominster, MA USA) 4 Stars
December 15, 2007
I got this for my kids and will show it to my Geography class as well. It has very good information and has quality production and narration.
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Was this film sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry? by Gran Lector (Denver, USA)  1 Stars
August 18, 2007
In contrast to the other reviews on this website for the IMAX film "Amazon" (which are highly supportive of the film) this review takes a much more critical approach. There was some nice imagery in the film of some of the diversity of the Amazon forest but there was very little explanation to go along with it. The real goal of the movie was to highlight the medicinal value of the plants in the Amazon and then to show how happy the Indian tribes are to give it all away for a fast speed boat or a plane ride. That is simply *absurd*. The Indian tribes are being used and short-changed by the big drugs companies who turn around and patent the active ingredients in the plants that are given to them by the tribes. The tribes get little if anything in return. On the other hand, a drug company can make billions of dollars on a single new drug. This film felt like complete propaganda from the pharmaceutical industry and it is insulting that people actually had to pay money to see this bad film.
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KNOW NOTHING OF THE DVD! BUT OF MEMBERS! THEY ARE GOLD! by CLINT BRONSON (las vegas,NV.)  5 Stars
July 20, 2007
So far I have gave 53(I think) reviews and to tell the
truth at 25 was going to quit! At 26 I had a comment
than another and another pretty soon all I was getting
was comments and they were not all neg. No! Most of
them we're positive and from people all over! It is
now July 20th 2007 and most people are excited for
Harry Potter. Not me! I love to get home have dinner
and see what my friends from AMAZON have written.
For I know I will find something not only knew,but
totally amazing from my friends Betty Dravis,James Wanzer
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good nature film, great for family viewing. by Patricia Mann (USA)  3 Stars
March 26, 2007
Enjoyed the scenery in this movie, and was glad I purchased it. Very informative about how we are destroying the coral reefs, and how global warming is affecting the reefs.
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