DVD
Into the Amazon
Languages
In English, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Narrated by Oliver Platt ; voice actors: Alec Baldwin, Wagner Moura, Jake Lacy.
Publication Information
[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation, [2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Added Uniform Title
Summary
It tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon.
Notes
Title from container.
"Subtitles are a function of the disc and serve the same purpose as closed captions"--Container.
Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of American experience in 2018.
Subjects
- Scientific expeditions > Amazon River Region > History > 20th century.
- Explorers > Amazon River Region.
- Nature > Effect of human beings on > Amazon River Region.
- Rain forest ecology > Amazon River Region.
- Amazon River Region > Social conditions.
- Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914)
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 > Travel-Brazil-Amazon River Valley.
- Rondon, Cândido Mariano da Silva, 1865-1958.