traditional medicine movies

Stars in My Crown (1950)
6.9 / 10

Drama, Western

Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a...

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...

Ayahuasca (2014)
0 / 10

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

Documentary, Mystery

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...

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...

The Secret of the Secret (2000)
0 / 10

Documentary, Mystery, TV Movie

The traditional healers in the Swiss and French mountains.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ayahuasca and the Path of the Shaman (1969)
0 / 10

Documentary

Desperate to recover from his depression, Dave travels from his home in British Columbia, Canada to Peru in order to experience the healing effects...

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...