Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix The threats posed by religion to liberal democracy are laid out with chilling poeticism by Apocalypse in the Tropics, ...

Netflix's newest political documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, is a gripping, unsettling look at how democracy in Brazil threatened to unravel when religion and political ambition became deeply ...

The director Petra Costa examines a rightward shift in her country by zeroing in on the rise of a televangelist. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

When I watched Petra Costa’s Oscar-nominated 2019 documentary The Edge of Democracy, it was impossible not to be struck by the similarities between her native Brazil’s slide toward authoritarianism ...

(RNS) — Netflix released the documentary ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics,’ which seeks to understand how the far right mobilizes faith for political interest. (RNS) — Protesters were dressed in national ...

In the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced eco doc, Richard Ladkani’s lens doesn’t just capture the Amazonian landscape, but also embodies its poetry. Few environmental documentaries begin with quite the ...

The threats posed by religion to liberal democracy are laid out with chilling poeticism by Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa’s unnerving recent-history documentary about the rise of Evangelicals ...