Fitzcarraldo es un soñador que planea construir un teatro de ópera en Iquitos, en la Amazonía peruana, así que, para financiar su proyecto, se embarca en una aventura épica para recolectar caucho, un producto muy rentable, en una región remota e inexplorada de la selva.
En el apartado puesto comercial de Río Galdez, en Brasil, conviven marginados de diversas nacionalidades. Entre ellos está Jerry Russell, un exingeniero obsesionado con encontrar el legendario tesoro de los jíbaros, en una búsqueda que podría cambiarlo todo.
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
After the explosive demise of their last subject, scientists must look for a replacement on whom to continue their bizarre experiments with brain-altering drugs.
An environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of the Amazon. This film addresses the recent transition from failed rubber to successful soybean cultivation for export, and its implication for land usage.
A donkey, putting a small pile of rubber out for wartime recycling, is dismayed by the much larger piles his neighbors have put out. He goes into the backyard and finds, in his lawn, a huge buried inner tube - but it has a mind of its own.
In Ratanakiri, a province in the northeast of Cambodia, Khlek, an 11-year-old boy, lives on the rubber plantation where his parents work. Coming from the Kreung ethnic minority, they are tappers.