Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Birthday: 1945-10-27
Place of Birth: Caetés, Pernambuco, Brazil
Biography: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), known simply as Lula, is a Brazilian politician who served as President of Brazil from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2011. He is a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT – Partido dos Trabalhadores) and ran for president three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election, then again in 1994 and 1998. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as president on 1 January 2003. In the 2006 election he was elected for a second term as president, which ended on 31 December 2010. Succeeded by his former Chief of Staff, Dilma Rousseff, he left an enduring mark on Brazilian politics in the form of Lulism. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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8 Presidentes 1 Juramento: A História de um Tempo Presente
The movie is a collage and comentary of varied third party footage on news relating to each and ever...
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South of the Border
A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mains...
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Women Metalworkers
In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the...
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A Symphony for a Common Man
As head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Brazilian diplomat José Bustani...
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Beyond Citizen Kane
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The Coup d'État Factory
Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the supp...
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A Luta do Povo
Short documentary on workers' movement in Brazil in the 1970s, such as the Movement Against Famine, ...
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A Day in the Life
The documentary tracks 19 hours of broadcasting from several brazilian TV channels making live surfi...
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The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the u...
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8/1 – A Democracia Resiste
Unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the main figures in power who tell how they faced ...
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580 Dias
Reporter Joaquim de Carvalho reconstructs the 580 days of Lula's unjust imprisonment, with exclusive...
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The Visit
In 1982, a young Lula embarks on a campaign trip to Recife where intimate moments from the leader’s ...
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Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo
The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The ...
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Intermissions
Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave...
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ABC of a Strike
ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouc...
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My Friend Hugo
Oliver Stone presents a tribute to a friend one year after his death, the friend in question was the...
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Ulysses Cidadão
The life and work of deputy Ulysses Guimarães based on news reports, interviews and testimonies....
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Rotten Boy
The life and trajectory of José Rodrigues Mao Jr., history professor, unionist, singer and founder o...
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O Evangelho Segundo Teotônio
Passages from the life of former Alagoan senator Teotônio Vilela, with emphasis on the process of hi...
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Noises From The Agora
Football, betting, agriculture, technology, conspiracy theories and the second round of one of the m...
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Born To Be Blind
Three blind sisters, Regina, Maria and Conceição, earn their living by singing in front of churches,...
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Visita, Presidente
The 580 days that president-elect Lula, from Workers Party, spent in prison are the subject of the d...
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Muda Brasil
The documentary recalls the political reopening of the country, and narrates in detail the events th...
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Lula
An intimate and revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most influential political figures, Lula e...
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Linha de Montagem
Documentary about the strikes that took place in São Bernardo do Campo, in the State of São Paulo, B...
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De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
The unlikely encounter between Eduardo Moreira, a former banker, and the MST, the main social moveme...
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Apocalypse in the Tropics
When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful ...
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Que Ninguém, Nunca Mais, Ouse Duvidar da Capacidade de Luta dos Trabalhadores
The documentary covers the first phase of the brazilian metalworkers' strike in 1979. It was made to...
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Democracia em Preto e Branco
Brazilian soccer players Sócrates, Casagrande and Vladimir lead a historic movement in sports by ado...
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The Trial
The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered ...
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Lower House
During 2016, a film crew embeds inside the Brazilian Congress while lawmakers plot to overthrow the ...
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The Next Victim
A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood....
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The Edge of Democracy
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore ...
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Todo Poderoso: O Filme - 100 Anos de Timão
Todo Poderoso: O Filme - 100 anos de Timão tells the saga of a team that was born from the hands of ...
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Brazil: The Great Jump Backward
Brazil enters a great political turmoil after president Dilma Rousseff has been ousted through an im...
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Darcy, um Brasileiro
Darcy Ribeiro was a renowned anthropologist, politician and writer. In this documentary, Maria Maia ...
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Imagens de um Sonho
Composed of videos published on YouTube by Petrobras contractors, the film explores an important cha...
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Encantado, le Brésil désenchanté
Considered for a few years the “country of the future”, Brazil has seen since 2013 a deep disenchant...
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Citizen Lula
The filmmaker has shot for 16 years Lula da Silva's trajectory on politics which took him to the Pre...
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El Odio
"El odio" describes the discrediting campaign against Lula da Silva and the Workers' Party in Brazil...
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A, B, C, Brasil
Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship,...
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3 Meals
This documentary shows a country that has lifted 36 million people out of extreme poverty in 12 year...
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The Inconclusive Independence
Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America....
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Alvorada
The film narrates, from an intimate point of view, the daily life of President Dilma Rousseff in her...
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Golpe de Ouro
After the coup of 1964, the media conglomerate Diários Associados organized a campaign called "Gold ...
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Latinoamérica, territorio en disputa
Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservativ...
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Breaking Myths
“Breaking Myths” aims to open the world’s eyes to the fragile and “catastrophic masculinity” of Braz...
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Dias de Euforia
Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings to...
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Néstor, su huella
Nestor Kirchner was – along with Cristina Fernandez – the central figure of Argentine politics in th...
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8 de Janeiro: O Dia que Abalou o Brasil
Just one week after the inauguration of the new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, supporters of ...
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My Foreign Land
For the Suruí, an indigenous people in western Brazil, there was a lot at stake in the 2022 presiden...
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Libelu: Down With The Dictatorship
In the 1970s, they were championing the fight against Brazil’s military dictatorship. Forty years la...
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The Hills of Disorder
Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature ...
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Strike: The Battle of the Four Clans
After the rise of a government threat, the four clans (Administrative Artisans, Sorcerer Teachers, P...
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1964: Brazil between weapons and books
We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investiga...
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Caçador de Marajás
The documentary explores the rise and fall of Fernando Collor De Mello, the youngest person to becom...
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