Tags: Brazil Documentary Crime Violence Documentary Brazil Film Documentary 2002

Bus 174

Name: Bus 174
Released: 2002-12-06
Rating: 7.8

Ratings: IMDB 7.8 / TMDB 7.3

Ônibus 174

Director: Felipe Lacerda, Jos Padilha
Region: Brazil
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Released: 2002-12-06
Runtime: 150 min
Rating: R (United States)
Original language: Portuguese
Box office: $217,201
Release dates: United States 2003-01-17
Keywords: teacher, hostage, police brutality, bus, rio de janeiro, hijacking, street kid, homeless teenager, slum, bus hijacking, massacre survivor, police failure

Overview

On 12 June 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, Ônibus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to kill all the passengers. Transmitted live on all national networks, this shocking and tragic event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the most terrifying examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

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