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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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