Yma Sumac Movies

A filmed version of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1968 live puppet show, set at a medieval fair. The special was a pilot for a weekly series.

Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for...

Interview, newsreel & performance footage of this twilight zone exotica princess. Includes substantial material documenting her Russian tour of 1961.

Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.

Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.