The 30-second opening clip from the short film Ode to Avalanche (6:30) demonstrates nature's power and beauty. The shot was ranked one of the best in the world in 2000.

Sony Play Station campaigns are eclectic and humorous. These 30-second spots, shot deep in the Amazon Rain Forest, feature local tribesman as actors.

The opening minute of the nearly hour-long Shaman's Apprentice documentary provides a glimpse of ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin's work with shaman in the rain forest of Suriname.

The opening 27-second clip of Gravity Never Sleeps (8:30). This extreme sports short from the early 1980s played for years on The Best of National Geographic.