The Lost City of Z
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Percy Fawcett: The river will be our home for the next two years. We shall not fail. Mankind awaits our discoveries.

James Murray: You don't care about us, you don't even care about going home. You only care about your lost city.

Jack Fawcett: I understand that it's dangerous, but you've said so yourself, with everything that's happened in Europe, it's not possible to choose a safe passage through life. So many men near my own age did not return from the war, and... And who is to say it will not happen again? It could, mother. It could happen again.
Nina Fawcett: By all accounts, I should be furious because you've just... You've just used my very own words against me. And how can I refute them? They are my own.

Baron De Gondoriz: Peace means only that nothing will change.

Sir George Goldie: Terrible disease, murderous savages. The journey may well mean your life. But you could reclaim your family name.

Percy Fawcett: If we may find a city, where one was considered impossible to exist, it may well write a whole new chapter in human history.

Factual error: The way surveying is done is plain stupid. Percy Fawcett sets up a transit in the middle of a thick jungle, Henry Costin stands 10 feet in front of him holding the rod in one hand and a notepad in the other, then Percy looks through the transit and somehow reads the geographic coordinates out of thin air. This scene repeats couple of times during the movie.

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