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A documentary about president and statesman Getúlio Vargas (1882-1954), following his political career from the first assignment as an Agriculture secretary in his home state then his take over of power in 1930 after a coup, leading Brazil for 15 years, then the democratic election that restored him to power in 1950 until his suicide in 1954.

Aspects of the Brazilian composer's life, highlighting musical excerpts from the "Série Brasileira".

Old Zé Cristino, riding his donkey, goes to Congonhas do Campo to fulfill a promise to São Bom Jesus do Matozinho. In front of the church, he admires the Sanctuary with its 12 prophets, a monumental work by Antonio Francisco Lisboa, known as Aleijadinho. Each prophet is shown in detail with the biblical text accompanying the images.

Institutional film made for Petrobras in 1958, through a public announcement, about the company's actions for the training of technicians specialized in petroleum engineering.

The film depicts part of Priest Donizetti Tavares de Lima's trajectory in a little town in the State of São Paulo called Tambaú, where he performed a series of miracles.

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

A composer seeks inspiration to write a samba the encapsulates all beautiful elements of Brazil.

A panel of the capital of Minas Gerais at the end of the 1950s. Aspects of its modern layout, the result of a pre-established urban plan, with its communication routes, squares and public buildings. Understanding the history of the city and its geographical location. Considerations on teaching, commerce and industry. Pampulha and residential neighborhoods.

A cowboy uses songs to tame and gather his animals.

A look at the now abandoned production farms, substituted by power plants.

A cinematographic interpretation of a Casimiro de Abreu poem.

A morning in the farm shown with a beautiful musical background.

Professor Hélio Gomes Machado gives a speech in favor of the library as an element of spiritual progress for a people. Description of a model library. The characteristics of the building, the functional furniture, the need for an auditorium, the classification of books, the binding and their checking. The description of works through cataloging based on the Vatican Library Code. The book card is typed and incorporated into the general catalogue. Then the books are organized on the shelf. Exchange between libraries, with books not requested by the public and duplicates. The reference section is essential, as its works are for consultation and not for loan. The children's section. Complete registration to use library services. The catalog that refers to decimal classification. Loan control. The reading room and consultants. Finally, the Castro Alves Library is considered a model to be adopted in the country.

Documentary about influential Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, made in his country house in Apipucos, Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil).

Musical rhythms inspired by work activities. Between 1974 and 1976, Leon Hirszman held three documentaries produced by the MEC about the songs of the rural workers in northeastern Brazil. In the trilogy, there is the documentation of the work songs of sugar cane, in Feira de Santana, the growers of cocoa, in Itabuna, and team workers in Chã Preta.

The construction of the Brasilia dream is blurred in precious scenes that preceded the opening of the city, filmed as sombre. What will be the future of these buildings and monuments? What will become of the future of these workers?

Aspects of the city of Congonhas do Campo. The preponderance of baroque architecture, the Basilica of Senhor Bom Jesus de Matozinho, the six chapels on the terrace leading to Morro do Maranhão. Each chapel contains statues representing moments of the Passion of Christ. While in the first chapel there is Santa Ceia figuration, in the second there is the Passo Horto scene. The kiss of betrayal and the imprisonment of Christ before the scene of the third chapel. In the fourth, two scenes are gathered: the coronation and the flagellation. On the fifth, the Christ bears the cross and the crucifixion is featured in the sixth chapel. The twelve apostles of Aleijadinho and the Latin inscriptions of each one. The interior of the Basilica and its main altar, with the figure of the Lord Dead.

A panoramic view of the architecture of St. João Del Rei.

Chronicles the life of the João-de-Barro bird.

A 10-minute portrait of modernist poet and de Andrade’s godfather, Manuel Bandeira, is clear in its affection for it subject, though like many New-Waveish films of the time, depicts the modern urban landscape as an ominous and alienating force.

The need for water in human life.

Sugarcane is cut and milled in an animal-drawn mill. The sugarcane juice is taken to a tank to strain the liquid. The bagasse is used to feed the furnace that heats the pan where the juice is boiled. The mill grinds the coffee, whose husk is also used as fuel to feed the furnace. Care is taken with the boiling juice to reach the required consistency. The molasses is then obtained, which is beaten, deposited in molds and, after drying, removed and its burrs trimmed.

Focusing on capoeira, Vadiação was previously storyboarded by artist Carybé. Its soundtrack preserves the typical chants and berimbau music which are part of that practice, as the film illustrates the evolution of capoeira, simultaneously a martial art and a dance.

The life of Luz del Fuego, her artistic performances and involvement with naturism. One of the great Brazilian feminists and precursor of the Brazilian naturist movement.

Documentary on the fresco paintings of Candido Portinari, who contributed to the development of a more realistic and modernist style in the art of Brazil.

Italian mondo featuring scenes of night life in North and South America, including Las Vegas, New Orleans, San Francisco, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.

It records the festivities that, at the time, took place in the heart of the city, at the meeting of Rua dos Andradas and Avenida Borges Medeiros.

Documentary about the works

In this follow up to the mondo success "Anaconda", the explorer Rolf Blomberg travels into Brazil's jungle in search of the terrifying Xavante indians. The expedition starts at the harbor town Belém at the end of the Amazon river, and continues inwards from there. In the ghost town Manaus, in the middle of the jungle, we visit the strange opera house (that is depicted in Herzog's Fitzcarraldo). On the river island Bananal in Rio Araguaya we meet the indian tribe Carajá and experience their daily life with bow hunting, fishing and dance rituals. at Rio das Mortes in Mato Grosso we win the friendship of the terrifying Xavante indians. After a visit to Rio de Janeiro the expedition continues to the Atlantic coast and Portaleza whose population of fishermen still use a primitive fishing raft, "jangada", for their long and dangerous hunting journeys at sea.

A trip made by Gerson Tavares in 1949, when he was a painting student, accompanying the São Francisco River from the Northeast region to Southeast Brazil, showing the authentic and backward interior of the country.

Animations (only parts in nuclei in the film) and images, many of them archival and foreign, illustrate that the notion of time is associated with movement and its measurement is performed by the rotation of the Earth around its axis and the Sun. The angle of inclination of the Earth in this last movement also marks the climatic seasons. From the need for greater accuracy in measuring time, gnomons and solar quadrants arose, for whose reading the duodecimal numbering is used. Based on this numbering, time zones and mechanical measuring devices were established, illustrated by the clock mechanism with a church bell. The evolution of astronomy determines the creation of more accurate electronic devices for the evaluation of time, such as the meridian telescope, the Markowitz chamber, the electronic oscillators and the telescope, with which astronomers work at the National Observatory.

Documentary about the the politician Magalhães Barata's death and mourning, in Belém Brazil.

A compliment to the beauty and modernity of the city of Manaus. The richness of its waters, its houses on stilts, boats and the natural landscape that surrounds it are evoked in this enthusiastic portrait. The rubber culture, which put it on the map of the world economy, guarantees it the title of “pearl of the forest”.

Marking the fourth centenary of the city of São Paulo, this documentary provides a brief overview of the city's history, then dynamically captures the present-day metropolis and the skyscrapers that dominate the plateau in the 1950s.

The brazilian military campaign in Italy during the Second World War.

The building of the first hidrelectric usine in Furnas, Brazil.