Exposé

Films that bring previously obscured truths about the political process to the attention of the public, showing for example how offices of public trust are used for private purposes.

Four Days in September

Democracy, Exposé / polfilms

Bruno Barreto’s Four Days in September is a retelling of events of 1969, when the American ambassador to Brazil was kidnapped by youthful, idealistic “Marxist” guerrillas seeking to free their comrades from detention and torture by the dictatorship ruling the country. Though the words of the ambassador, Charles Burke Elbrick, we learn how a career […]

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