Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Apocalypse in the Tropics” (July 14, Netflix) is a sequel to Brazilian documentarian Petra Costa’s “The Edge of Democracy,” which ...

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 The threats posed by religion to liberal democracy are laid out with chilling poeticism by Apocalypse in the Tropics, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Netflix has released the trailer for its highly anticipated miniseries based on the life of Formula 1 icon Ayrton Senna, whose career and untimely death left an indelible mark on motorsport history.

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 ...

A still from the plane crash at the center of A Tragedy Foretold. On July 17, 2007, Brazil endured the worst aviation accident in the country’s history: the crash of a TAM Airlines plane, which left ...

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 ...

The documentarian follows her Oscar-nominated "The Edge of Democracy" with "Apocalypse in the Tropics," a Plan B-produced sequel that tracks the rise of Christian Nationalists in Brazil. “It was a ...