

Guerra de Canudos is a 1997 Brazilian film, of the drama genre, directed by Sérgio Rezende. It was shown in miniseries format on TV Globo, between December 16 and December 19, 1997, in 4 chapters, replacing "Decadência", and being replaced by "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands", being the first time that the broadcaster adapted the exhibition of a feature film in this format, an expedient that became be used more frequently since then.
4 episodes · December 16, 1997
It is based on the famous real episode in Brazilian history, the Canudos War, in which the Brazilian army faced members of a religious movement led by Antônio Conselheiro, which lasted from 1896 to 1897 and ended with the massacre of the insurgents by federal troops.
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