Summary
Twenty years ago Alan Ereira's influential television film From The Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning brought global attention to the Kogi people of Colombia, a remote and ancient South American civilization determined to caution us about environmental damage to the earth.
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Audiences 72GoodWatch 71
IMDb7.4
Audience score70%
Running time
1 h 29 min
A typical length for documentaries, −7 min on the typical 96
typical 9689Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 9 countries
Released
2012
June 15, 2012
14 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
SpanishMade in
- United Kingdom
Directing · 1
- Alan Ereira Director
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