Bus 174

Name: Bus 174
Director: José Padilha
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Released: 2002-10-22
Duration: 1 h 58 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares

Directed by José Padilha

Documentary

Crime

20021h 58m7.3

Overview

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.