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"Bus 174"
2002
Directed by Jose Padilha

A powerful, award-winning examination of the tragic series of events that followed a desperate bus hijacking in Rio de Janerio in 2000. Using footage captured by Brazilian news crews and interviews with the hostages and police, filmmaker Jose Padilha offers an intimate and shocking account of the hijacking, which turned deadly when a SWAT team took evasive action against the drug-addled hijacker. Padilha also delves into the social and economic conditions in Brazil that led the hijacker to commit such a reckless act. "It has the force of tragedy and the depth of first-rate investigative journalism" (A.O. Scott, The New York Times). In Portuguese with English subtitles. 133 minutes.