Bus 174 (2002)

Name: Bus 174
Director: José Padilha
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Released: 2002
Duration: 1 h 58 min
Rating: 7.38
Cast: Luiz Eduardo Soares, Rodrigo Pimentel, Sandro do Nascimento, Yvonne Bezerra de Mello

Original Title: Ônibus 174

Crime Documentary

7.4 (133 votes)

1h 58m

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.