We’ve all made the mistake of overpacking, but spare a thought for Fitzcarraldo, who attempts to manually haul a 320,000kg steamship over a steep Peruvian Amazon hill.
Incredibly, the filmmakers behind the biopic actually tried to recreate this, with legendarily difficult results: the wreckage of the steamer used in the film is still rusting away in the dense jungle that lies 3,200km upstream from the splendidly inaccessible city of Iquitos.
Your trip down the Amazon River into the jungle – the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve is a conservation site for indigenous tribes as well as for puma, jaguar and tapir – should be a lot easier.
Where to watch it: Stream on BFI Player