SAO PAULO (AP) — The Academy Award nomination for a Brazilian documentary about the impeachment of then-President Dilma Rousseff has laid bare the polarization of Latin America’s largest democracy. In ...

Netflix's newest political documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, is a gripping, unsettling look at how democracy in Brazil threatened to unravel when religion and political ambition became deeply ...

The first time Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Neighbouring Sounds”) visited L.A.’s historic Broadway Theater District, he plotted a return with a camera to record the dozen movie ...

When I watched Petra Costa’s Oscar-nominated 2019 documentary The Edge of Democracy, it was impossible not to be struck by the similarities between her native Brazil’s slide toward authoritarianism ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix The threats posed by religion to liberal democracy are laid out with chilling poeticism by Apocalypse in the Tropics, ...

Few environmental documentaries begin with quite the urgency that "Yanuni" does. Even fewer blend political thrills with meditative visual poetry, but Austrian director Richard Ladkani strikes this ...

Cover; Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; 1. Feverish Archives, Feverish Films: Ethnographic ...

When Jair Bolsonaro was elected president this fall, it was with the support of Brazil's most conservative forces: the Christian right, the military and the landowners. With a program against abortion ...

Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human rights can positively influence how people experience events ...