José Dirceu

Race Antenna (2020)

In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he interrogated a contradictory and boiling Brazil head-on, full of utopias but always under the weight of sec ...

1964: Brazil between weapons and books (2019)

We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes. ...

Ibiúna, Primavera Brasileira (2019)

The clandestine congress of the National Union of Students, held in October 1968, resulted in the collective arrest and registration of 700 students who opposed the dictatorship. ...

Amizade (2009)

Hércules 56 (2006)

Documentary featuring contemporary interviews with 5 of the revolutionary activists who kidnapped US ambassador Charles Embrick in August 1969 in Rio de Janeiro and some of the political prisoners who were freed from prison in exchange of the ambassador's ...

Intermissions (2004)

Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave filmmaker João Moreira Salles and his crew complete access, and the result is an intimate documentary of what went on behind the scenes. Sometimes, Lula i ...

Atos: A campanha pública de Lula (2004)

Tempo de Resistência (2003)

Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella (1970)

Made shortly after the death of Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella, this documentary reconstructs his life and political struggle through interviews with friends and comrades. It examines his role in the resistance against Brazil's military dictator ...