Et filmhold er forsvundet under en ekspedition ind i Amazonas uvejsomme jungle. Det eneste spor er en enkel filmrulle, der finder vej tilbage til civilisationen. Indholdet viser sig at være ekstremt bloddryppende og afskyvækkende i form af tortur, kannibalisme og seksuelle overgreb. Alligevel beslutter en gruppe modige eventyrere at finde det forsvundne filmhold.
Året er 1909 og den tyske opdagelsesrejsende Theodor Koch-Grünberg har begivet sig ind i den colombianske jungle for at finde shamanen Karamakate, der er en af de sidste overlevende medlemmer af Ocainas-stammen. Theodor er overbevist om, at Karamakate kan hjælpe ham med at finde den hellige Yakruna-plante, hvis helende kræfter den alvorligt syge Theodor desperat har brug for. Karamakate er skeptisk over for Theodor, som han er over for alle hvide mænd, men indvilliger i at hjælpe ham, da han påstår, han kan lede Karamakate på sporet af andre tilbageværende stammefæller.
Efter at være blevet hjulpet ud af kløerne på en gruppe liderlige sømænd af den opblæste eventyrer Wilard overtaler Gwendoline sin redningsmand til at hjælpe hende på den farefulde rejse til det sagnomspundne land Yek Yeik - et land der regeres af en ondsindet dronning og en hær af amazonekrigere. I Yek Yeik må Gwendoline tage kampen op mod amazonerne, inden Wilard tvinges til at befrugte de mange kvinder og derved skabe en ny race af kvindelige krigere.
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.
