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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix’s latest Brazil slate includes a series set in the world of MMA; another about the iconic Brazilian football team of the ...

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, ...

Apocalypse in the Tropics (now streaming on Netflix) is a heavy, heavy documentary, the follow-up to Brazilian director Petra Costa’s 2019 must-see Oscar-nominee The Edge of Democracy. For the first ...

Unveiling a lesser-known chapter in Brazil’s history, the documentary “Art of Diplomacy,” co-produced by filmmaker Celina Borges Torrealba Carpi, explores how art became a diplomatic tool during World ...

Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, three times president of Brazil, was born in 1945. He grew up poor in Sao Paulo and left school early to help support his family. Having trained as a lathe operator, he ...

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As the World Cup kicks off in Brazil on Thursday, David Beckham is trying not to miss his glory days of playing for the England team and now enjoys just being a soccer fan.

In the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced eco doc, Richard Ladkani’s lens doesn’t just capture the Amazonian landscape, but also embodies its poetry. Few environmental documentaries begin with quite the ...