Boy 23: The Forgotten Boys of Brazil

About Boy 23: The Forgotten Boys of Brazil

The film accompanies the investigation of the historian Sidney Aguilar after the discovery of bricks marked with Nazi swastikas in the interior of São Paulo. They then discover a horrifying fact that during the 1930s, fifty black and mullato boys were taken from an orphanage in Rio de Janeiro to the farm where the bricks were found.

Belisario Franca's Boy 23: The Forgotten Boys of Brazil is a 2016 documentary film. Its themes are slavery, nazism, forced labour, and racism.

Released in July 2016, it runs 79 minutes.

It streams on Chai Flicks in the United States.

Django Unchained, 12 Years a Slave, and The Butler make useful companions to Boy 23: The Forgotten Boys of Brazil.