The purpose of this paper is to analyz the production and possible uses of two pedagogical tools about the military dictatorship: an exhibition of documents and an audiovisual series. Both were designed and developed by the same research group from the Núcleo de Memória e Direitos Humanos da UFRJ and two of its members have used them as teaching resources in History classes. The article is divided into three parts: a report on the academic and political debates and the context in which this research team originated; a discussion of the building and guided tours of Rastros da Verdade exhibition based on the analysis of evaluation questionnaires filled out by students and teachers; and, finally, an assessment of the choices made in the production of the Incontáveis audiovisual series and the ques- tions raised in its exhibitions over time, based on the authors’ experiences and memories.
