Amazon
By: produced and directed by Nia Dryhurst ; produced by Green Bay Media for S4C and France 5 in association with Barcud Derwen ; produced and directed by Amanda Rees
Contributors: Green Bay Media (Firm); S4C (Firm); France 5.; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Series: Rivers and life : how waterways cradle and confound human society; Rivers and life; BIO 330 (NU course); SCI 300 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hamilton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Rain forests; Rain forest ecology; Economic conditions
Other titles: Amazon River : 
Description: "Stretching over 4,000 miles across South America, the Amazon River has long defied human efforts to tame it. Not a single bridge crosses it, and not one dam halts its flow. This program visits urban centers on the banks of the Amazon and examines new attempts to harness-or exploit - the river's energy and natural abundance. The journey begins at Iquitos - a Peruvian city blighted by poverty and inaccessible by road. Next is Manaus, a hub of tourism and industry in Brazil - and an effective springboard to discussions of controversial dam proposals. At the mouth of the Amazon, viewers find Belem, where the river is both agriculturally productive and highly vulnerable to development."--Container.
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Narrated by John Morgan.

DVD-R.

In English and Portuguese with English subtitles. Closed-captioned.