traditional medicine movies

Stars in My Crown (1950)
6.9 / 10

Drama, Western

The story of a young pastor coming to a small town in the United States to set up his ministry. The movie tells of the various relationships and...

Aya: Awakenings (2013)
4.5 / 10

Documentary

Aya: Awakenings' is an experiential journey by journalist Rak Razam into the world and visions of ayahuasca, a powerful hallucinogenic plant medicine...

Heaven Earth (2008)
0 / 10

Documentary

This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers...

From Shock to Awe (2018)
7 / 10

Documentary

How do we heal our deepest wounds? Two combat veterans, suffering from severe trauma, abandon pharmaceuticals in order to seek healing through...

Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance (2002)
0 / 10

Documentary

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...

Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey (2008)
5.6 / 10

Documentary

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the...

The Man Who Drank the Universe (2005)
8 / 10

Documentary

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...

Soldiers of the Vine (2016)
8 / 10

Documentary

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...

Magie & Medizin - Die Geheimnisse des Papyrus Ebers (2023)
9.5 / 10

Documentary, Mystery

Icaros: A Vision (2017)
6.3 / 10

Drama

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...

Auf der Suche nach Heilern (2014)
0 / 10

Documentary

“I am a hypochondriac”, admits Rosa Von Praunheim, the icon of the gay movement, right at the beginning at the film. The director, who turned...

The Shaman & Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms (2010)
4 / 10

Documentary

Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahuasca, the psychoactive plant brew that has been...

L'Iboga: Les Hommes du bois sacré (1969)
0 / 10

Documentary

A documentary about iboga, a medicinal tree root that is the basis of the bwiti religion in Gabon.

The Medicine of Forgiveness (2001)
0 / 10

Documentary

Benito Arévalo is an onaya: a traditional healer in a Shipibo-Konibo community in Peruvian Amazonia. He explains something of the onaya tradition,...

Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century (1999)
0 / 10

Documentary

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...

Shipibo: Learning Through the Light (2018)
0 / 10

Documentary

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

Sick in Africa (1969)
0 / 10

Documentary

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

Don Emilio and His Little Doctors (1982)
8 / 10

Documentary

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...

Ayahuasca (2016)
5 / 10

Documentary

American tourists at SpiritQuest Sanctuary, a medicine lodge in Peru, share their thoughts about the traditional medicine ayahuasca, and their...

The Knowledge of Healing (1997)
0 / 10

Documentary

A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.