One might assume that an Oscar-contending 2025 documentary that features footage of citizens storming a government building in their nation’s capitol, with the aim of overturning a free and fair presidential election and therefore democracy itself, would be about the events of Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. However, the doc, Apocalypse in the Tropics , is actually about the events of — and leading up to — a similar incident that occurred almost exactly two years later, on Jan. 8, 2023, in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.

One might assume that an Oscar-contending 2025 documentary that features footage of citizens storming a government building in their nation’s capitol, with the aim of overturning a free and fair presidential election and therefore democracy itself, would be about th

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