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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alfredo Avila found himself in Brazil in 2004, far from his high school alma mater of Samohi. While seeking to expand his cultural education as a UC Berkeley exchange student in Brazil, he and his ...

Netlfix has announced a hat-trick of documentaries focused on Brazilian football coming to the streaming platform. Kicking things off, the three-episode miniseries Ronaldinho Gaúcho (Ronaldinho: The ...