Profesorul Munro are sarcina de a găsi patru copii care au dispărut în mod misterios în pădurea amazoniană. Căutările sale descoperă filme găsite în rândul unui trib canibal: conținutul lor va arunca lumină asupra a ceea ce s-a întâmplat cu copiii dispăruți.
Gwendoline, o tânără naivă care a fugit dintr-o mănăstire, și prietena ei Beth pornesc în Asia în căutarea tatălui ei, un entomolog care a dispărut în mod misterios în timp ce cerceta un fluture rar. Cele două fete, însoțite de chipeșul aventurier Willard, ajung în orașul subteran Yik-Yak, regatul necontestat al unei regine crude care conduce o societate de femei-insecte și femei-războinice, modelate după albine. În timp ce Willard este tânjit de regină, care plănuiește să-l omoare după ce îl împerechează cu câștigătorul unei lupte de gladiatori, Gwendoline și Beth îndură o ucenicie dură a încercărilor și torturii erotice.
Amazon was a syndicated television show created by Peter Benchley. It was developed by Canadian production companies Alliance Atlantis Communications & WIC Entertainment and German company Beta Film GmbH. The 22 episodes of the series were in first-run syndication between 1999 and 2000. The drama series focused on the six survivors of a crashed airline flight in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. The group soon comes into contact with a Native American tribe, and relations are anything but friendly. The group is taken in by a mysterious tribe, who descended from 16th century British colonists who were lost in Amazon. Relations with the Chosen are tenuous at best. Most of the group escapes the Chosen only to stir up a hornets nest with a tribe of cannibals, led by an insane American woman bent on domination of all the local tribes. The first season ended in a cliff-hanger, and a second season was never produced. The series retained sufficient interest that it was released on DVD in 2011. A novelization of the 2-hour pilot was written by Rob MacGregor, and a mass-market paperback was released by Harper on 8 Aug 2000. The German title was Amazonas - Gefangene des Dschungels.
See the real modern-day Amazonia through an exploration of the Amazon Basin, meeting a different group of people who live there in each episode.
