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Skin of Glass

Season 26 Episode 12

A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in São Paulo—a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass)—is inhabited by hundreds of unhoused people. But after getting to know these occupants, what started as a personal quest becomes something much bigger.

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How a small hunger strike against solitary confinement turned into a massive statewide protest.
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A champion grass dancer returns home after 13 years to reconnect with his Indigenous culture.
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The rise and fall of the NFT phenomenon that transformed the art world.
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