Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Movies

When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip Christian...

Passages from the life of former Alagoan senator Teotônio Vilela, with emphasis on the process of his formation as a public figure, from his...

An intimate and revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most influential political figures, Lula explores the rise, fall and triumphant...

Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave filmmaker João Moreira Salles and his...

After the coup of 1964, the media conglomerate Diários Associados organized a campaign called "Gold for Brazil," exhorting the people to...

Short documentary on workers' movement in Brazil in the 1970s, such as the Movement Against Famine, and the policial repression against demonstrators...

Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna....

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

Football, betting, agriculture, technology, conspiracy theories and the second round of one of the most turbulent elections in the history of...

Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of...

Documentary about the strikes that took place in São Bernardo do Campo, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, circa 1979/1980. That moment...

A documentary about the 1979 workers strike.

ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of...

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in...

During 2016, a film crew embeds inside the Brazilian Congress while lawmakers plot to overthrow the country's elected president, Dilma Rousseff.

The 580 days that president-elect Lula, from Workers Party, spent in prison are the subject of the documentary "Visita, Presidente". The feature...

Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship, led by the metallurgists of ABC Paulista (Luiz...

A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America...