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Brazil: An Inconvenient History

  • 20002000
  • 47m
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Brazil: An Inconvenient History (2000)
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At first glance Brazil appears to be an alluring playground of exciting carnivals, sultry samba, divine football and a vibrantly diverse people. But behind this dazzling facade lies a distur... Read allAt first glance Brazil appears to be an alluring playground of exciting carnivals, sultry samba, divine football and a vibrantly diverse people. But behind this dazzling facade lies a disturbing story of history's largest-ever slave population. Astonishingly Brazil, a Portuguese ... Read allAt first glance Brazil appears to be an alluring playground of exciting carnivals, sultry samba, divine football and a vibrantly diverse people. But behind this dazzling facade lies a disturbing story of history's largest-ever slave population. Astonishingly Brazil, a Portuguese colony, received ten-times more African slaves than the numbers transported to North Ameri... Read all
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    • Director
      • Phil Grabsky
    • Writer
      • Phil Grabsky
    • Stars
      • Sean Barrett(voice)
      • Joao Jose Reis
      • John Hemming
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      • Phil Grabsky
    • Writer
      • Phil Grabsky
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      • Sean Barrett(voice)
      • Joao Jose Reis
      • John Hemming
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    Sean Barrett
    • Self - Narrator
    • (voice)
    Joao Jose Reis
    • Self - Historian, University of Bahia
    John Hemming
    • Self - Historian - Director of Survival International
    Hakim Adi
    • Self - Historian: African and Black British History
    • (as Dr Hakim Adi)
    Peter Fry
    • Self - Anthropologist, National Museum, Rio de Janeiro
    David Birmingham
    • Self - Historian: African Slave Trade
    Cid Teixeira
    • Self - Historian: Brazilian Slavery - Descendant of Slaves
    Sylvio Garcez
    • Self - Descendant of Plantation Owner
    Geraldo Lopes de Lima
    • Self - Former Cajaiba Plantation Worker
    Marilene Rosa Da Silva
    • Self - Historian, University of Rio de Janeiro - Descendant of Slaves
    • (as Marilene Rosa Nogueira da Silva)
    Sandra Lauderdale Graham
    • Self - Historian: Brazilian Slave Life
    Osvaldo Navaro Alves
    Angela Bertolini
    Carlos Ceneviva
    Luiz Fila
    Alfredo Carlos Holzmann
    Nicolau Klüppel
    Hitoshi Nakamura
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    • Release date
      • April 29, 2000 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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