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Tropicalia (2013)

Director

Marcel Machado

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

Marcel Machado’s documentary charts the history of the 1960s Brazilian counter-cultural movement known as Tropicália, which expressed itself in theatre, film, art and poetry, but is perhaps best known...

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Race and History in Brazil: Denying Brazil and Aleijadinho - Passion, Glory and Torment (2011)

aka: A Negacao Do Brasil

Director

Joel, Zito Araujo; Pereuram Geraldo Santos

Subject

Art; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 92, 100 minutes), $29.95

Race and its impact on the art and history of Brazil are highlighted in this two-DVD set. The documentary DENYING BRAZIL analyses the issue of race in contemporary Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to...

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Waste Land (2011)

Director

Lucy Walker

Producer

Angus Aynsley

Subject

Art; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 99 minutes), £19.99

This film follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz as he leaves his New York studio behind and travels to Jardim Gramacho, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Here, on the world’s largets landfill site, he...

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Birdwatchers (2010)

aka: (Terra Degli Uomini Rossi, La

Director

Marco Bechis

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £15.99

A drama in which a group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland.In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the farming classes lead a wealthy and leisurely existence....

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Theo’s Adventure Capitalists (2010)

Subject

Business studies; Finance & Accounting

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

Entrepreneur and business dragon Theo Paphitis follows nine brave and bold British businesses hoping to make it big abroad. He explores emerging markets in Vietnam, India and Brazil with household names and...

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Brazil: An Inconvenient History (2008)

Director

Phil Grabsky

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £9.99

Behind the glitter and gloss of modern Brazil lies a history many would rather forget. For many Brazil possesses a truly energetic and alluring way of life, synonymous with heady carnivals, samba, football...

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Shakespeare in the Favelas (2007 Video)

Subject

Drama; Education

Drama educationalist Kieron Jones travels from his home village of Frambrough in England to the favelas (shanty towns) of Vitoria and Rio de Janiero in Brazil. His challenge is to get children and young...

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Bus 174 (2004)

aka: Ônibus 174

Subject

Psychology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 140 minutes), £19.99

A documentary recounting the events of 12 June 2002 in Rio De Janeiro when several people fell victim to the hijacking of a bus. Unable to determine the motives of the young hijhacker, the authorities stood...

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IlÉ AiyÉ (The House of Life) (2004)

aka: House of Life, The

Director

David Byrne

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies; Music; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £17.99

An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...

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Carlinhos Brown, Bahia Beat (2003)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £18.99

Carlinhos Brown is a successful musician but still lives in Candeal, Brazil where he remains deeply rooted in the street culture which has been the inspiration for his Afro-Brazilian music. He has set up and...

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