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- A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
- A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be.
- In 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.
- A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
- Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
- Laura (Libertad Leblanc), a sensual stripper, receives from her lover (Jorge Salcedo) an envelope with an order to open it only in case he dies. When he is killed, she opens the envelope, finding half of a mysterious map and a piece of paper with instructions. Following these, Laura travels to Guayaquil, where she comes into contact with an Argentine geologist (Ricardo Bauleo), who owns the other half of the map. It turns out to be the map of a large treasure buried in the heart of the Ecuadorian jungle, in the territory of the fearsome Auca Indians, head reducers. Both are on the road, ready to face all the dangers that may be necessary, in order to get so valuable loot. But Laura's beauty and sensuality will awaken desire in all men throughout the dangerous expedition.
- The chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago.
- In the deepest, most remote part of the Amazon, a treasure is hidden. A treasure so valuable that men would kill for it, women would undress for it, and entire armies would fight for it.
- Yanomami boys imitate their fathers' shamanic ceremonies.
- Two Yanomami tribes join together for a feast.
- The shaman Dedeheiwä tends his manioc and plantain garden with his family.
- Village headman Kaobawä relates the story of Naro and his two brothers.
- The shaman Dedeheiwä relates the Yanomami myth of Naro in which Naro the possum kills his brother the honey bee out of jealousy.
- The shaman Dedeheiwä bathes nine of his children and grandchildren in the river.
- The TARDIS arrives in England, 1925, near to where a mysterious, gurgling man has escaped his bonds and started strangling servants. The Doctor is "expected" and taken (along with Tegan, Nyssa, and Adric) to the Cranleighs' country estate where The Doctor participates in a cricket match and Nyssa turns out to be the near spitting image of Ann, fiancée of Charles Cranleigh. They all stay for an afternoon costume ball. Tegan teaches others how to do the Charleston while Adric eats, but The Doctor finds himself searching through secret passageways in his bathrobe after the gurgling man steals his clothing and party costume to attend the ball and deal with one of the guests.
- The 5,000-year-old Pyramid City of Caral in today's Peru marks the place where the possibly oldest civilization in the Americas once existed. Did they practice human sacrifices like some other more famous civilizations on the continent?