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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human rights can positively influence how people experience events ...

On July 17, 2007, Brazil endured the worst aviation accident in the country’s history: the crash of a TAM Airlines plane, which left 199 people dead. The incident is also considered the biggest ...

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 ...