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A powerful, award-winning examination of the tragic series of events that followed a desperate bus hijacking i 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.

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