Plots of Freedom – The Cry of Samba for Democracy

Verbotenes Begehren

June 2025 •German

Vale o Escrito - A Guerra do Jogo do Bicho

June 2025 •Portuguese

The "jogo do bicho" (an illegal lottery of numbers) in Rio de Janeiro is controlled by families whose leaders are also patrons of samba schools. Two of these families are experiencing bloody wars of succession.

Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien

June 2025 •English

An extraordinary variety of writers, who often suffered terrible adversity throughout their lives, created wonderful places full of happiness in which children lived far from the sorrows of adult life.

Stalin

June 2025 •English

Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving witnesses.

Indie Sex

June 2025 •English

Indie Sex is a 2007 American television documentary film directed by Lesli Klainberg.

Transamazonica: A Highway to the Past

June 2025 •Portuguese

The Transamazon highway was a gigantic saga, the greatest example of the pharaonic works of the Brazilian military government. But the road that would promote national integration was best known for linking the famine of the Northeast with the misery of the Amazon. This haunting docuseries follows the story of the construction of this highway and its morbid consequences.

The Park Maniac: The Untold Story

June 2025 •Portuguese

Francisco de Assis Pereira's crimes are revisited from the perspective of the victims, new reports from investigators and unpublished audio recordings from one of Brazil's most infamous serial killers, known as the Park Maniac.

Lei da Selva: A História do Jogo do Bicho

June 2025 •Portuguese

The story of how the lottery invented to finance a zoo was incorporated by Rio de Janeiro's popular culture and, in the hands of organized gangsters, transformed itself into an immense crime empire.

Unknown Amazon with Pedro Andrade

June 2025 •English

See the real modern-day Amazonia through an exploration of the Amazon Basin, meeting a different group of people who live there in each episode.

Don't Tell Anyone

June 2025 •Spanish

The story behind the crime that occurred in the summer of 2016 in Pioz, a small town in La Alcarria, where the lifeless bodies of a Brazilian couple and their two children were found.

Airport Brazil: Restricted Areas

June 2025 •Portuguese

A behind-the-scenes look inside the complex operation of South America's largest and busiest airport, São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, through a series of day-to-day cases seen from the airport’s staff perspective.

Mussolini: The First Fascist

June 2025 •French

Mussolini seized power in Italy in 1922, after his March on Rome. He would hold it in his grasp until his death in 1945, establishing a dictatorship that lasted more than 20 years. Long considered a buffoon and a second-rate dictator, Il Duce invented fascism that was imitated by Hitler, who viewed the Italian as his political master. He wanted to transform his country into a warrior nation and promised Italians a return to the grandeur of the Roman Empire. He governed by violence and trickery and was one of the first populist leaders of modern times, leading his country into the catastrophe of the World War II. But who was Mussolini, this former teacher who came from the extreme left to become a newspaper editor and creator of the Fascist Party? Why did he ally himself with Hitler? Were the Italians really behind him? With archives and interviews with the last-surviving witnesses of the era, this portrait takes a look back at one of the most notorious dictators of the 20th century.

Grag Hearts Drag

June 2025 •Portuguese

Grag Hearts Drag is a celebration of all things Brazilian drag! Grag Queen's new series has her joining the stars of Drag Race Brasil as they explore their home towns all around Brasil.

Pilgrimage to Football Meccas

June 2025 •

Brazil with Michael Palin

June 2025 •English

Brazil with Michael Palin is a travel documentary series by Michael Palin consisting of four episodes. Palin, had never been to Brazil which, in the 21st century, has become a global player with a booming economy bringing massive social changes to this once-sleeping giant which, as the fifth largest country, is as big as some continents.

O Nome Dela é Gal

June 2025 •Portuguese

A four-part biography on the life of the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, from her humble beginning singing in the streets of Salvador, where she became friends with many artists who would be other great names in Brazilian music in the following decades to her 50th career anniversary in 2015.

Canto ao Tempo

June 2025 •Portuguese

1822: Uma Conquista dos Brasileiros

June 2025 •Portuguese

Diktaturet

June 2025 •Norwegian

The Dictator's Playbook

June 2025 •English

Learn how six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, shaped the 20th century. How did they seize and lose power? What forces were against them? Learn the answers in these six immersive hours, each a revealing portrait of brutality and power.