José A. Mauro Movies

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural...

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

The origins and activities of the Academy, culminating in the election of the first female academic: Rachel de Queiroz.

The first Brazilians who engaged in aviation, from Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão with his hot air balloon to Alberto Santos Dumont,...

Coronel Januário's goddaughter, Maria Fausta, is having a secret affair with João do Carmo. While her godfather is engaged in his...

Aspects of the Brazilian composer's life, highlighting musical excerpts from the "Série Brasileira".

The film documents the old Rio de Janeiro and its great focus of diseases. Stresses the decisive importance of Oswaldo Cruz who creates Experimental...

At the Rockefeller Foundation, the rat colony for experiments with viruses and antibodies in humans. In Ilha dos Macacos, next to the Oswaldo Cruz...

Aspects of the city of Congonhas do Campo. The preponderance of baroque architecture, the Basilica of Senhor Bom Jesus de Matozinho, the six chapels...

A brief history of paper and the stages of its production. An animation about the history of writing, the emergence of paper in ancient civilizations...

Biographical data about Castro Alves: the different cities where he lived, the love misadventures, the school institutions where he studied and his...

Animations (only parts in nuclei in the film) and images, many of them archival and foreign, illustrate that the notion of time is associated with...

A Velha a Fiar illustrates a Brazilian folk song in which a being or entity is always predating another being, but is in its turn predated by some...