Without the material traces that are locked away in the technical reserves of museums, the film intersperses archival footage and drawings of Indigenous peoples of the past with imagery of present-day Brazil. Accompanying the visuals is a voiceover discussing the profound impact of classifying humans by race, a widespread practice carried out for scientific inquiry in the 19th century. It had legitimised occupation by “civilised” European settlers, as a means of “whitening” the population to save it from the so-called degeneration that was believed to be biologically rooted in Indigenous communities. It had justified the abduction of natives from the tropics, who were displayed as exotic exhibits in world fairs and used for experimentation. It rationalised the continued depletion of the rainforest, which now threatens our very existence. The film asserts that it is ironically the ancestral knowledge of those who have been subjugated in the name of progress, which will be able to provide a viable alternative to the excesses of colonial violence. Framed as a manifesto, No More History Without Us calls for a re-opening of all the paths that close when Amazonians attempt to think and speak for themselves. It stands as part of a new wave of postcolonial cinema—clear-eyed and essential.

In 2024, No More History Without Us won Best Feature Film at Environmental Film Festival (FICA) in Brazil, and Best Documentary Film at Bali International Film Festival (Balinale).

Priscilla Brasil (b. 1978, Brazil) is an Amazonian filmmaker whose career began with her first film, As Filhas da Chiquita (Chiquita's Daughters), a documentary released in 2006 that was commercially distributed in Brazil and screened in over 30 countries. She is currently a PhD candidate in Post-colonialism and Global Citizenship at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Brasil is also the coordinator of the Escola Livre de Cinema da Amazonia (Amazon Free Film School), an initiative that aims to assist in the training of audiovisual executives, independent producers, technicians in the sector, as well as students in the north of the country. It raises awareness of the importance of audiovisual media in representing communities and generating sustainable jobs in the Amazon.