Mano Brown Movies

Armed with music and a message, influential hip-hop group Racionais MC's turned their street poetry into a powerful movement in Brazil and beyond.

A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both...

This documentary portrays the trajectory of Brazilian singer and songwriter Marina Lima, an exponent of popular music with a career spanning over 40...

Discover the history of the Chic Show ball, an iconic black music party in São Paulo. The event was a milestone in the life of São...

This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla"....

Mauro Mateus dos Santos was known by another name: Sabotage. Growing up amidst poverty in São Paulo, the musician, who became a legend after...

Leci Brandão is a pioneer of socially conscious music in Brazil. A samba singer, communist party activist and the second black deputy elected...

1000 Trutas, 1000 Tretas is a live DVD by the Brazilian rap group Racionais MC's, released in 2006.

Alan do Rap was one of the precursors of Hip Hop in Salvador, who to promote his songs would invade the stage of famous hip hop acts and take the...

"Negro em Mim" is an investigative documentary with black artists and thinkers in Brazil today. A portrait of a plural Brazil from the racial...

An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?

An overview on Brazilian hip hop through interviews with some of its most important artists.