Traditional Medicine Movies

Anthropologist and filmmaker João Meirinhos travels in Peruvian Amazonia to speak with healers who work with the plant medicine ayahuasca. The...

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...

This film explores the integration of religion and plant-based medicine in an Ewe vodu community in southern Togo. A village priest healer, local...

Three people fly from Chile and Spain to Iquitos, Peru to experience the magic of the sacred plant ayahuasca.

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...

Shipibo healer Ricardo Amaringo describes how he prepares, teaches, and shares the plant medicine ayahuasca. Olivia and Julian Arévalo sing...

A participatory ethnographic film that tells the story of the struggle of Q'eqchi and Mopan Maya healers in Belize to keep their medical tradition...

The Legacy of Menla is a fresh portrayal of cancer, from the perspective of Tibetan Medicine.

Sick in Africa follows the true stories of several Mozambicans from the Yawo tribe who are ill, but searching for healing and answers.

Sachamama is a retreat lodge in Peruvian Amazonia. There, Francisco Montes leads ayahuasca ceremonies for tourists seeking insight and healing.

Epic ground-breaking journey across India, China and Tibet to explore alternative medicine. With healthcare costs soaring in the west, looking east...