Traditional Medicine Movies
- 1950
Stars in My Crown
Stars in My Crown6.91950HD
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a...
- 2024
Povo da Floresta
Povo da Floresta82024HD
- 2008
Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey
Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey5.62008HD
Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the...
- 1999
Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century
Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century01999HD
This documentary introduces viewers to qigong, a 5,000-year-old method of cultivating and circulating the life energy called qi. It relates some of...
- 2014
The Mirror of the Spirit
The Mirror of the Spirit02014HD
Anthropologist and filmmaker João Meirinhos travels in Peruvian Amazonia to speak with healers who work with the plant medicine ayahuasca. The...
- 1982
Don Emilio and His Little Doctors
Don Emilio and His Little Doctors81982HD
Don Emilio is a humble, 63-year-old man who lives in the Amazon rainforest, seven miles from the city of Iquitos, Peru. For all of his adult life he...
- 2023
Magie & Medizin - Die Geheimnisse des Papyrus Ebers
Magie & Medizin - Die Geheimnisse des Papyrus Ebers9.52023HD
- 2008
Heaven Earth
Heaven Earth02008HD
This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers...
- 2017
Icaros: A Vision
Icaros: A Vision6.32017HD
In search of a miracle, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon and finds hope in a community, through rituals involving an...
- 1997
The Knowledge of Healing
The Knowledge of Healing01997HD
A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.
- 2016
Soldiers of the Vine
Soldiers of the Vine82016HD
After years of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, six US veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan travel to Peru on a quest for...
- 2024
Auf Messers Schneide - Eine Geschichte der Chirurgie
Auf Messers Schneide - Eine Geschichte der Chirurgie82024HD
- 2013
Aya: Awakenings
Aya: Awakenings4.52013HD
Aya: Awakenings' is an experiential journey by journalist Rak Razam into the world and visions of ayahuasca, a powerful hallucinogenic plant medicine...
- 2001
The Medicine of Forgiveness
The Medicine of Forgiveness02001HD
Benito Arévalo is an onaya: a traditional healer in a Shipibo-Konibo community in Peruvian Amazonia. He explains something of the onaya...
- 2018
From Shock to Awe
From Shock to Awe72018HD
How do we heal our deepest wounds? Two combat veterans, suffering from severe trauma, abandon pharmaceuticals in order to seek healing through...
- 1970
Ayahuasca and the Path of the Shaman
Ayahuasca and the Path of the Shaman01970HD
Desperate to recover from his depression, Dave travels from his home in British Columbia, Canada to Peru in order to experience the healing effects...
- 2016
Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca52016HD
American tourists at SpiritQuest Sanctuary, a medicine lodge in Peru, share their thoughts about the traditional medicine ayahuasca, and their...
- 2002
Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance
Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance02002HD
Men and women of the !Kung people in Ojokhoe, Namibia perform healing dances by firelight. First we see men perform the giraffe dance, and then...
- 2005
The Man Who Drank the Universe
The Man Who Drank the Universe82005HD
It is late 2004, and 34-year-old Englishman Alistair Appleton is about to fly from London to the Brazilian coast, where he will drink ayahuasca for...
- 2000
The Secret of the Secret
The Secret of the Secret02000HD
The traditional healers in the Swiss and French mountains.