The Lost City of Zed (2017)

The Lost City of Zed (The Lost City of Z() is a 2016 American biographical adventure film directed by James Gray from a screenplay by James Gray. The film is based on the 2009 book of the same name by David Grann. The film was released in the United States on April 14, 2017.

The film tells the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who traveled to the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the area.

Ignoring the ridicule of scientific organizations that considered the native population "savages", the determined Fawcett, supported by his wife, son, and assistant, returned again and again to the jungle, trying to prove his theory, which ended with his mysterious disappearance in 1925.