Movies: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The life and work of deputy Ulysses Guimarães based on news reports, interviews and testimonies....

Brazil enters a great political turmoil after president Dilma Rousseff has been ousted through an impeachment process....

This documentary shows a country that has lifted 36 million people out of extreme poverty in 12 years....

Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the support of the big media, particularly TV Globo. Two Brazilian journalists in the UK reveal the manipulative tactics of these organisations....

After the coup of 1964, the media conglomerate Diários Associados organized a campaign called "Gold for Brazil," exhorting the people to donate wealth to the military government. The symbol of the campaign was the wedding ring, sealing the union betw...

Football, betting, agriculture, technology, conspiracy theories and the second round of one of the most turbulent elections in the history of Brazilian politics. The daily political debate in a small newsstand in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and...

"El odio" describes the discrediting campaign against Lula da Silva and the Workers' Party in Brazil, demonstrating how this process led Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Conducted by Argentine documentary filmmaker Andrés Sal.lari, also details the ...

Documentary about the strikes that took place in São Bernardo do Campo, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, circa 1979/1980. That moment was of utmost importance, since it revealed a Union leader, Luís Inácio "Lula" da Silva, who would later become Pr...

Humorous short about the 1989 Brazilian presidential election....

ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of highly-regarded director Leon Hirszman in 1987, by which time the material had a new relevance. The gripping film capture...

Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservative forces and popular movements....

The 580 days that president-elect Lula, from Workers Party, spent in prison are the subject of the documentary "Visita, Presidente". The feature brings together unpublished stories of figures who were beside him in prison....

A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood....

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....

The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registere...

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Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America....

The documentary covers the first phase of the brazilian metalworkers' strike in 1979. It was made to be shown to the workers during the truce between the two phases of the strike, with the aim of mobilizing them for the second phase. The film shows t...

The documentary tracks 19 hours of broadcasting from several brazilian TV channels making live surfing between channels. The result was edited latter....

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