Best South American documentary series
A curated collection of popular documentary series from South America.
Reading Again Mafalda (2023)
Reading Again Mafalda (2023)
This documentary series reveals the origin of Quino's iconic cartoon and his sources of inspiration. Through a combination of stock material, interviews with famous Mafalda fans, and testimonies from historians, editors, and Quino's friends and family, the series offers a fresh look at this classic through the Maitena, Liniers, Montt, Tute, Rep, Kemchs, and Raquel Riba Rossi's analysis.
Calle y Poché: No Labels (2023)
Calle y Poché: No Labels (2023)
At the peak of their successful careers as content creators, Calle and Poché return to Colombia to reunite with their families, their group of friends, and confront the challenges of their romantic relationship combined with their individual ambitions.
Humor 101: Brazil (2022)
Humor 101: Brazil (2022)
This docuseries presented by Fábio Porchat brings together some of the best Brazilian comedians to talk about humor, its limits, its relationship with politics, and other topics. We have accounts from Rafael Cortez, Carol Zoccoli, Yuri Marçal, Marcelo Adnet, Tom Cavalcante, and many others, as well as comedy footage from the past. Together, we will discover what makes Brazilians laugh.
Border Control: Brazil (2022)
Border Control: Brazil (2022)
Mulher Arte (2014)
Mulher Arte (2014)
A designer goes through 10 cities drawing its beautiful women.
190: Inteligência Contra o Crime (2022)
190: Inteligência Contra o Crime (2022)
Fred Be a Pro (2020)
Fred Be a Pro (2020)
Fred has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revisit his biggest dream: becoming a professional football player. In this series, he was announced as a player of the three-time world champion Magnus. To overcome his limitations, he receives the help of Falcão, one of the best futsal players in the world in the history of the sport. Together they need to turn Fred into a professional before the team plays against rival River Plate.
Olhos da Lei (2023)
Olhos da Lei (2023)
The Superfantastic Story of Balão (2023)
The Superfantastic Story of Balão (2023)
In Brazil of the 1980s, the children’s music group Balão Mágico brought together a charming girl singer, a shy boy with an angelic voice, the heir of a famous thief, and the son of a famous Brazilian musician. Some 40 years after their heyday, former members Simony, Tob, Mike, and Jairzinho reunite to discuss the untold side of the group’s playful and colorful years in the spotlight.
The Beginning of Life: The Series (2016)
Algo habrán hecho (2005)
Algo habrán hecho (2005)
Algo habrán hecho is a documentary film for television that narrates the history of Argentina. It was created by the argentine historian Felipe Pigna, who acted as presenter. In the first two seasons Mario Pergolini was a co-presenter of it, but after giving up on all works on television his role in the documentary was taken by Juan Di Natale. Di Natale and Pergolini were by that time co-presenters of the talk show Caiga quien caiga. Di Natale pointed that he wasn't meant to act as if he was Pergolini, but the script writers wrote instead the scripts based on his own personality.The first season, aired in 2005 on Canal 13, narrates the history of Argentina from the british invasions of the Río de la Plata to the fall of Juan Manuel de Rosas during the Battle of Caseros. The second season, aired in 2006 on Telefé, resumes the narration from that point and continues up to the suicide of Leandro N. Alem in 1896. The third one, aired in 2008 on Telefé, resumes as well from the end of previous season and ends with the meeting of Juan Domingo Perón and Eva Duarte at the Luna Park during a fund-raising to help after the San Juan earthquake.
The Pure Creole (2008)
The Pure Creole (2008)
It has been said that in our country we have many differences, that is true, but the truth is that there are not so many and there are more similarities that make up our identity. This is a fun tour of everything that generates feelings of belonging in Colombians.
Neymar: The Perfect Chaos (2022)
BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America (2020)
BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America (2020)
Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.
Hei$t: The Great Robbery of Brazil's Central Bank (2022)
Hei$t: The Great Robbery of Brazil's Central Bank (2022)
In August 2005, through a tunnel almost 80 meter long, thiefs invaded the bank vault of Brazil's Central Bank in Fortaleza and stole over 160 milions reais, ou or nealy 3,5 tons of cash. This documenty explores that spectacular and historic heist.
Vale o Escrito - A Guerra do Jogo do Bicho (2023)
Vale o Escrito - A Guerra do Jogo do Bicho (2023)
The "jogo do bicho" (an illegal lottery of numbers) in Rio de Janeiro is controlled by families whose leaders are also patrons of samba schools. Two of these families are experiencing bloody wars of succession.
Be Eternal: Champions of America (2022)
All or Nothing: Brazil National Team (2020)
All or Nothing: Brazil National Team (2020)
The series follows the newly crowned champions of the 2019 Copa América tournament, the Brazilian football team, in a behind-the-scenes multi-part exclusive.
Ángel Di María: Breaking Down the Wall (2024)
Ángel Di María: Breaking Down the Wall (2024)
From his humble origins to becoming champion of the world, this documentary series recounts the life and career of the iconic Argentinian soccer player.
Gordon Ramsay on Cocaine (2017)
Gordon Ramsay on Cocaine (2017)
Gordon Ramsay strips away the veneer of cocaine’s glamorous image to expose how behind the powder many Brits consume as part of a night out, lies a trail of criminality, cruelty and death driving its global trade.
Maradona in Mexico (2019)
Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy (2019)
Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy (2019)
Hours before denouncing Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of negotiating impunity of Iranians possibly involved in the AMIA bombing in 1994, prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his apartment in Buenos Aires.
Xuxa, O Documentário (2023)
Xuxa, O Documentário (2023)
Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel, about to celebrate her 60th birthday and more than 40 years in the business, looks back at all the important moments in her life and career. Successes and disappointments, fights and love, she retraces her entire trajectory.
