Transamazonica: A Highway to the Past
The Transamazon highway was a gigantic saga, the greatest example of the pharaonic works of the Brazilian military government. But the road that would promote national integration was best known for linking the famine of the Northeast with the misery of the Amazon. This haunting docuseries follows the story of the construction of this highway and its morbid consequences.
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TRANSAMAZÔNICA: UMA ESTRADA PARA O PASSADO
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The opening episode introduces the history of the road and the socio-political context that led the military to set on the construction of a work that...
Nowadays, entering the Legal Amazon via BR230 is disappointing since there is no forest there anymore. In this episode, we reveal the scars that the G...
We learn about the colonization project of the military government in Altamira, the heart of the road that tore the forest with its tractors. There it...
We will follow how the road accelerated the main drivers of forest degradation, predatory deforestation, illegal timber sales and mining. Based on the...
In this episode we investigate the original men of the “land without men”. The stories of indigenous populations that historically have been in the sh...
The past and the present meet at the end of the road, opening up weaknesses and contradictions. Going through the wildest stretch, the last episode of...
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