James Gray · 2016 · river

James Gray's 2016 film, from David Grann's book. The British explorer Percy Fawcett makes repeated expeditions from England into the uncharted Amazon in the early 1900s, convinced a lost ancient city lies hidden in the jungle. Through disease, hostile rapids and the mockery of his peers, he pushes ever deeper into Mato Grosso - until he and his son vanish forever into the green on their final search for 'Z.'

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   England

   The country Fawcett leaves again and again, a soldier and surveyor obsessed with proving that a great lost civilization lies hidden in the Amazon, against all the scorn of the Royal Geographical Society.

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   Amazon river

   The great river up which the expeditions push into unmapped territory, battling fever, starvation, piranha-filled rapids and the edge of the known world.

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   Mato Grosso

   The deep Brazilian jungle where Fawcett believed the lost city of 'Z' lay - and where, on his final expedition in 1925, he and his son Jack disappeared without a trace.