Brazil Documentaries

Bus 174

2002
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Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) is a Brazillian documentary made in 2002 depicting what happened when bus number 174 in Rio de Janeiro was hijacked by a young gunman on June 12th 2000.   The event was live broadcast on Brazillian TV, revealing the utter competence and brutality of the police,[...]

History of Football: The Beautiful Game

2002
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History of Football: The Beautiful Game was a stunning 2002 series which gave a comprehensive overview of the history of the game of football, in a global context. It starts at the origins of the game and shows how the sport has affected history in general, it was even responsible for the start of t[...]

Waste Land

2010 Unrated

  The "Waste Land" documentary co-directed by Lucy Walker, Karen Harley takes us to the outskirts of Rio De Janeiro where the biggest landfill site in the world is located.   This really looks like an alien landscape, and certainly not a place where anyone would want to[...]

Sex In Strange Places - Brazil

2016
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  Brazil is one of the most sexually liberated countries in the world as Brtish investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Stacey Dooley reveals in the second episode of her 2016 series “Sex in Strange Places”. While there are about 1 million transgender people who l[...]

A collection of Brazil documentaries to watch online.