This Chilling Netflix Documentary Traces Brazil’s Slide Toward Theocracy

This chilling Netflix documentary traces Brazil’s slide toward theocracy

A new documentary from Petra Costa on Netflix explores Brazil’s political and spiritual turmoil, underscoring the fragility of democracy.

‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’: A Passionate Take on Brazilian Politics

Here is one thing that makes Petra Costa’s new documentary, “Apocalypse in the Tropics” (in theaters and streaming Monday on Netflix), so powerful: It is very precisely not about American politics. Yet the temptation for a segment of viewers to see it as being about that will, I suspect, be insurmountable. But Costa is here to tell a bigger story. She begins with the extraordinary shift in her homeland of Brazil toward evangelical Christianity —…

Doc Talk: MAGA Mirrored in "Apocalypse in the Tropics" - The Arts Fuse

In her new documentary about the crises in Brazilian democracy, Petra Costa examines a factor involved in the election of Jair Bolsonaro that was largely overlooked in the first film -- the toxic power of the evangelical movement.

Excerpt: A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Hollie Overton

If you knew the world was ending, what would you want your children to know about survival? What would you sacrifice to protect them? What secrets would you want to stay buried? “Riveting, conversational, and real, A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse feels like a letter from the future, or a missive from that prophetic mother who knew too much, too late, and attempted to give everything she had: love. A warning whose time has come.”   Alison Stin…

New documentary looks at religion and right-wing politics in Brazil

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