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Described as a character-driven action.
Set in the world of expert knife fighting.
After a prison riot, Captain Nascimiento is swept into a bloody political dispute involving government officials and paramilitary groups.
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36% WILL SEE
64% WON'T SEE An American federal agent goes undercover in South America's dangerous so-called tri-border area -- where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet -- in an attempt to dismantle a terrorist-funding network.
A Boston-based DEA agent is unwillingly sent to Paraguay for having busted the son of an US senator during a drug raid. He is exposed to the ins-and-outs of the different crime organizations and law enforcement agencies in the tri-border zone and he strives to understand how the place works in order to capture his ticket back home, a leading drug dealer.
The true story centers on a racial incident in 1925 Detroit that put African American doctor Ossian Sweet (Oyelowo) on the stand for murder. His defense was funded by the nascent National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and led by Darrow (Crowe).
This documentary captures what happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12th, 2000 when Bus 174 was highjacked by an armed young man, Sandro do Nascimento, with a dozen passengers. Nascimento threatened to kill all of the passengers, but eventuallly agreed to surrender, as TV cameras were rolling and an entire nation was glued to their screens watching the event take place. Then, a police officer decided to fire at Nascimento anyway, accidentally killing one of the female passengers instead. What followed was a revolt among the city's population, enraged at police brutality. The film intertwines the story of the standoff with biographical information about Sandro do Nascimento, including his childhood as a survivor of the "Candelaria" child mass murders in the early 1990s, and the trauma of seeing his mother stabbed to death in front of him.
Centers on two men, Mitsuyo Maeda and Rickson Gracie, and how they developed and spread a mixed martial art that became known as Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
A British drug trafficker is arrested in Bolivia and jailed in La Paz's San Pedro prison. During his six-year stretch, the man serves as a tour guide in a prison that thrives under a capitalist system made possible by bribery of officials.