Amazon - Secrets of The Golden River

This is a very nice & I think must have cd to my animal collection. It is fish jumping out of the water catching spiders hanging form trees, it has of course the ever scary & feared pirranah's. I love it becasue it is done in a very professional manner. The only bad thing I have to say is it leaves me wanting more or maybe that is a good thing you decide. I really wish it was like three hours long but you cant have everything you want or can you?

This isn't what you think it might be, the cover leads you to believe that piranha play a major role, I believe they mentioned them for about two minutes. The rest was on the life of the people who live on the Amazon, that's no secret. Once you've seen the National Geographic documentaries it's hard to settle for this level of mediocrity. Pass on this one, its generic and not worth the money you'll pay, new or used.

very well put together and does not get boring

The end credits show a copyright date of 2005, but it must have been filmed many years before that. It looks and feels like a 1980s production. Further, the title is misleading. It is about the people and the river, not just the river. I doubt that anyone can still say that the Rio Negro is ‘unspoiled’. Anyway, this documentary adds little new info to what we already knew about the river and her people. The assertion that it is the ‘second largest river in the world’ caught me by surprise. It isn’t one of the fifteen longest rivers. It isn’t even the second longest in South America. If he was using volume of water, he should have said so, IMO, but according to a youtube video I found, it isn’t in the top five, the second spot going to the Congo. Oh, well.

I bought this DVD prior to traveling to the Amazon Basin - mainly to the Rio Negro. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it before my trip. It helped me to better understand what to expect, what I might see, etc. I enjoyed it even more afterwards, as I found myself watching it again and again after returning home. It is very accurate and real. It portray's what you will really see on the Rio Negro and what the Amazon region is really like. It highlights things perfectly. I only wish it was longer or there was another one. I loved it!

It is in such bad resolution that during the darker segments, I couldn't even tell what was happening, it just looked like 7 or 8 green/gray rectangles. It is in 4:3 resolution, which means it is really old, widescreen has been the default for at least a decade, but this looks much older than that. I'd guess it was shot in the early 1980s. On top of that, this is more of an anthropological film than an nature or wildlife documentary. I wanted to see Planet Earth type stuff, but that isn't what is going on here, there's a lot of stuff about how people fish and prepare food and survive in the Amazon.

I watched this DVD prior to traveling along the Rio Negro. It is very informative.Since I have returned from the trip, I have watched this DVD again and again. Itreminds me of so much that we saw/experienced. I would absolutely recommend it toanyone who is planing to travel along the Rio Negro or who is just interestedin learning more about this area of the Amazon region.

Somewhat geared for the younger crowd. I enjoyed the film and good photograpy in the film. Yes, I would recommend this to a friend.