Pele's meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama.
The true story of the footballer who put his life on the line.Many believe that, throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the Medellin drug cartel of Pablo Escobar was partly responsible for financing and building the Columbian national football team. In an early match against the USA at the 1994 World Cup, Columbian defender Andres Escobar - no relation to Pablo - scored an owngoal that led to the team's elimination. Less than 10 days later, Escobar was killed: shot dead in his native Medellin. The killer reportedly shouted Goal! with each pull of the trigger.Was Escobar's murder an isolated incident, or was it a revenge hit organised by cartels that had lost money gambling on the match?And would the murder have happened if Pablo Escobar, himself shot dead the year before, had been alive? Award winning directors Jeff and Michael Zimbalist examine the mysterious events surrounding Andres Escobar's violent death.
Pablo Escobar was the richest most powerful drug lord in the world ruling the Medelln Cartel with an iron fist. Andres Escobar was the biggest soccer star in Colombia. Although not related their fates were inextricably-and fatally-intertwined. Pablo's drug money had turned the national team into South American champions but when Andres scored an own goal that eliminated his team from the 1994 World Cup it ultimately cost him his life. For Colombians soccer was far more than a game: their entire national identity rode on the success or failure of their team. The Two Escobars is a riveting examination of the intersection of sports crime and politics.
Their music fuelled a movement. His message fought a war. Favela Rising documents a man and a movement a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends Anderson S is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro's most feared slum. Through hip-hop music the rhythms of the street and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppre
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