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Season 26 Episode 12: Skin of Glass

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

28

Episodes:

544

Cast:

Stanley Tucci

Quality:

HD

Duration:

85 min

First Air:

1999

Rating:

6.6