"BUS 174" goes from the seemingly sensational to the sublime at breathtaking speed. What starts off as a documentary about a hostage crisis in Rio de Janeiro deepens with every passing minute.

Jose Padilha’s “Bus 174” relates the bus hijacking and ensuing hostage crisis in excruciating detail, using interviews with participants and miles of news footage shot during the event.

There was enough drama in a June 2000 bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro to make it a gripping real-time TV event.When the standoff ended in gunfire, most of the cameras went home. For the filmmakers ...

On June 12, 2000, the 21-year-old Nascimento, freshly escaped from prison after a boyhood on the mean, mean streets of the world's most beautiful dangerous city, got high, bumbled ...

“Bus 174” is an intimate and shocking documentary about a real-life Brazilian crime, one of the most famous in that country’s recent history: the “Onibus 174” kidnap-hostage standoff in ...

Like a great piece of investigative journalism, Bus 174 rounds up a full complement of interview subjects: SWAT team members and hostages from the scene, do Nascimento's aunt, fellow street ...

Bus 174," the jolting new documentary by Brazilian director Jose Padilha, opens with a dizzying aerial shot that races high over Rio de Janeiro. It's a lovely take, but this is no postcard.

ThinkFilm has acquired North American theatrical rights to acclaimed Brazilian documentary "Bus 174," in one of two deals closed -- along with Shadow Distribution's purchase of Hungarian festival ...

Bus 174 uncovers the life of Sandro, who held the bus hostage. “It came out that he was a survivor of Candelária and that he had been in jail, so he’d gone from being a victim to being a culprit.

A dramatized account of the life of the young slum dweller who perpetrated the Rio de Janeiro hijacking depicted in Jose Padilha’s excellent 2003 docu, “Bus 174,” Bruno Barreto’s “Last ...