Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel, about to celebrate her 60th birthday and more than 40 years in the business, looks back at all the important moments in her life and career. Successes and disappointments, fights and love, she retraces her entire trajectory.

A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s.

A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.

1962 film by Carlos Hugo Christensen

Subterrâneos do Futebol é um documentário que procura captar a vida do jogador, desde menino nos campos de pelada, até o fim da sua carreira, sempre efêmera Até então o cinema brasileiro ainda não tinha passado a visão real e cruel da trajetória do jogador como coisa efêmera.O filme pretende contrapor a ilusão da fama à incompatível condição para sobreviver depois dela, A estrutura narrativa é baseada em três personagens; o juvenil do Palmeiras Feijão (Luiz Carlos de Freitas) que tinha feito o papel de Pelé no filme O Rei Pelé, de Hugo Christensen, o próprio Pelé e Zózimo Calazans, bicampeão mundial em decadência. Eram três negros; o aspirante, o ídolo e o caído.

In the late 1960s, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a collection of documentaries called "Brasil Verdade" ("True Brazil"), after the Military Coup d'État took place in Brazil, which happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society. The five short films are directly related to this fact and its consequences to the country.

Documentary telling the story of legendary Brazilian footballers Pelé and Garrincha, whose emergence following Brazil's defeat at home in the 1950 World Cup Final heralded the dawn of a golden age of football for the country. But while one man became known as the world's greatest footballer, the other died a broken alcoholic at the age of 49.

1985 film by Ipojuca Pontes