Brizola, Anotações para uma História 2024

Brizola 2024

A reflection on the construction of the Brazilian political class, from Getúlio Vargas until the beginning of the 21st century. To the historical facts is added a cunning and ambitious Brizola, but above all passionate about the Brazilian people.

Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho 2022

A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her lifetime.

Matheus Schdmit, um caso de amor pelo Brasil 2019

Democracia em Preto e Branco 2014

Brazilian soccer players Sócrates, Casagrande and Vladimir lead a historic movement in sports by adopting a democracy within their team, making a statement against the country's military dictatorship.

Dossiê Jango 2013

João Goulart (known as Jango) had been democratically elected president of Brazil, but was expelled from office after the coup of April 1, 1964. After that, Jango lived in exile in Argentina, where he died in 1976. The circumstances of his death in the neighboring country were not well explained today. His body was buried immediately after his death, raising the suspicions of premeditated murder. This documentary brings the issue back to the fore and tries to publicly clarify some obscure facts of the history of Brazil.

Darcy, um Brasileiro 2013

Darcy Ribeiro was a renowned anthropologist, politician and writer. In this documentary, Maria Maia seeks to expose a bit of his personality with testimonials from friends, collaborators and speeches by Darcy himself.

The Day That Lasted 21 Years 2012

Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson original White House tapes, and CIA Top Secret documents reveal how the US government planned to overthrow Brazilian elected president João Goulart.

1964: 40 Years After 2004

Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 1964, and the implementation of the military dictatorship in Brazil. Around 40 characters reveal behind the scenes and comment in detail on this important moment in Brazilian political history.

The Comrade: The Life of Luiz Carlos Prestes 1997

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

Beyond Citizen Kane 1993

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion.

Zona Eleitoral 1990

Humorous short about the 1989 Brazilian presidential election.

1º de Abril, Brasil 1989

The daily routine of a women's Republic in the late days of 1963 and early 1964 - before the military coup - is presented from the perspective of several characters, and the place's owner who is about to sell the house to an international company who wants to build a mall in the place.

Muda Brasil 1985

The documentary recalls the political reopening of the country, and narrates in detail the events that culminated in the election of Tancredo Neves as the first civilian president after 20 years of military dictatorship.

Jango 1984

The story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.

O Evangelho Segundo Teotônio 1984

Passages from the life of former Alagoan senator Teotônio Vilela, with emphasis on the process of his formation as a public figure, from his childhood as a mill boy to the final stage, with his famous campaign for the democratic restoration of the country. At this point, he was a man on the brink of death, already victimized by the cancer that would kill him.