

Amazon with Bruce Parry (2008)
12. Home media only. Nobody younger than 12 can rent or buy a 12-rated video. May contain moderate violence, sexual innuendo, or coarse language.
Overview
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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