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Source of the Amazon

United States, 1947
film

The River Amazon rises in the Andes in Peru not far from the Pacific Ocean and continues for some 4000 miles to the Atlantic Coast in Brazil. The film traces ..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

The Amazon: life along the river in Peru

United States, 1962
Similarity: 83%

Up the Amazon

United Kingdom, 1975
Similarity: 83%

The Amazon awakens

United States, 1944
Similarity: 78%

Tropical lowland: the Amazon River, Brazil

United States, 1949
Similarity: 78%

Amazon to ice

Australia, 1992
Similarity: 74%

The River: a first film

United States, 1969
Similarity: 73%

The Making of the river

United States, 1955
Similarity: 70%

Life in hot rain forests: Amazon Basin

United States, 1971
Similarity: 70%

The Making of the river [B&W]

United States, 1955
Similarity: 69%

South America today

United States, 1973
Similarity: 69%

Rivers of the world

United Kingdom, 1997
Similarity: 68%

The River

United States, 1938
Similarity: 67%

At play in the fields of the Lord

United States, 1991
Similarity: 67%

River

Australia, 2021
Similarity: 67%

River, where do you come from?

United States, 1970
Similarity: 66%

Plantation in Peru

United States, 1947
Similarity: 66%

Over the Andes in Ecuador

United States, 1969
Similarity: 66%

South America: Indians of the Andes

United States, 1968
Similarity: 66%
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