Brazil--The Gathering Millions

Series: Population Problem Series (60 Minutes)

Duration: 60

Genre: Documentary | Educational

Year Published: 1965

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the present circumstances of the Brazilian peasant and the penalties which a people must pay when population grows at a faster rate than the means of sustaining life. Traces the migratory cycle of the rural poor as they seek a better way of life in the cities but find overcrowded conditions and no opportunities and thus are forced back to the frontiers and a subsistence level of living., This first episode documents the circumstances of Brazilian peasants and the penalties which a population must pay when population grows at a faster rate than the means of sustaining life. Traces the migratory cycle of the rural poor as they seek a better way of life in the cities but find overcrowded conditions and no opportunities and thus are forced back to the frontiers and a subsistence level of living.

Complete Record: Documents the present circumstances of the Brazilian peasant and the penalties which a people must pay when population grows at a faster rate than the means of sustaining life. Traces the migratory cycle of the rural poor as they seek a better way of life in the cities but find overcrowded conditions and no opportunities and thus are forced back to the frontiers and a subsistence level of living., Examines Brazil's population problem which is characterized on the one hand by excessive population growth in the cities and on the other by a rapid decrease in population in the rural areas., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.