Movies: Brazilian history

A poetic and intimate look at the life and work of photographer Luis Humberto....

Four siblings, whose their father disappeared during Brazilian Military Dictatorship, report their childhood during the regime....

Documentary about Swedish emigration to Argentina via Brazil....

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only a few unarmed employees. Small in number, these employees work in shifts. They are almost prisoners themselves, in a routine of tension, but also of ...

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A documentary about Italian immigration in Brazil....

An environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of t...

"O Mar de Antônio Peregrino" tells the fascinating story of the pilgrim Antonio Conselheiro and the village of Canudos. In a region feared by its long droughts, thousands of outcast peasants and Indians came together to build a country utopia. The ci...

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