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At just over thirty years of age, the young doctor Oswaldo Cruz revolutionized public health in Brazil and, against intense popular reactions, attacked the three greatest scourges that the population has ever faced.

The story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the movement called "Cinema Novo", with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.

Documentary about one of the greatest political scientists of all time: Josué de Castro, a Brazilian from the state of Pernambuco who, besides being a Humanist, was also a physician, teacher, geographer, scientist, sociologist, and pioneer in the study of social exclusion, ecology and hunger in the world.

A junction between fiction and documentary about famous poet Castro Alves presenting his ideological battle against slavery and his fight to create the Brazilian republic in the 19th Century. The movie also covers his busy romantic life with a Portuguese actress.

When the União Nacional dos Estudantes (UNE) celebrated its 70th year of existence filmmaker Silvio Tendler decided to present this documentary which tells the student's union and his activism in Brazilian society, going from its inception in the 1930's.

Santiago Álvarez Román (1919-1998) was an important Cuban documentary filmmaker in the 1960s who joined the filmmaking corps of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC). Although he never studied cinema, the filmmaker revolutionized the documentary language by denouncing imperialism and the violation of civil rights. From the accounts of people close to the director, we can understand why he was given the title of 'Dziga Vertov of the Americas', a true rare gem of Latin American cinema.

A look at the Brazil military coup of 1964, and how the 20 years that followed affected musicians, with some jailed or exiled, and political voices giving rise to a new form of music: "Tropicalia".

This concluding part looks at Brazil's attempts to find its identity in an era of post-military rule. With the divide between rich and poor increased, drugs and violence escalated in the favelas, and AfroReggae offered people a way out.