but was particularly prevalent in the 1920s and 1930s. Lampião led a band of up to 100 cangaceiros, who occasionally took over small towns and who fought...

"Dioguinho" (in São Paulo) Jesuíno Brilhante Lampião Lucas da Feira Maria Bonita Sinhô Pereira Anésia Cauaçu O Cangaceiro, Lima Barreto 1953 A Morte Comanda o...

O Cangaceiro (lit. "The Cangaceiro"; also known as The Bandit and The Bandits) is a 1953 Brazilian adventure western film directed by Lima Barreto. After...

He makes presentations in the capital as Lampião, because of his resemblance to the famous bandit (cangaceiro) of the early 1900s. He wants to become a...

business there. Abahão was the secretary of Padre Cícero and met the cangaceiro Lampião in 1926 when he went to Juazeiro do Norte to ask for the priest's...

intervening on behalf of victims threatened by Lampião and the other cangaceiros. On July 28, 1938, Lampião and his band were betrayed by one of his supporters...

have restarted the cangaço and seeks to take the revenge of Lampião and other cangaceiro martyrs, presenting the tale of Saint George and the Dragon in...

like Mulher (1998), O Tempo e o Vento (1985), A Justiceira (1997), and Lampião e Maria Bonita (1982), receiving the Gold Medal of Cinema and Television...

decades of 1920s and 1930s, with the popular legend created by the cangaceiros of Lampião, a band of outlaws and bandolier bandits who terrorized the region...

extended to name any kind of rural bandit or outlaw, such as the "cangaceiros" (of which Lampião is the most notorious example). It was also applied as a pejorative...