The Lost City of Z

The Lost City of Z

A man's reach should exceed his grasp... or what's a heaven for?

2017141 min6.4 / 10

An ambitious historical drama about obsession and the human drive to discover the unknown, told with visual grandeur but tempered by the melancholy of a man consumed by his quest.

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

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