The purpose of this work is to analyze ethical space on social representations of contemporary Brazilian cinema. For understanding of the boundaries between fiction and documentary, and between film based on or inspired by real facts takes to benchmarking the documentary and fiction made about bus 174 rendition armada by Sandro birth in June 2000: bus 174 (2002), José Padilha and last stop 174 (2009), Bruno Barreto. These films are building speeches about the location (the city of Rio de Janeiro) multiple viewpoints transnational, raising questions about the look abroad in construction of local representation. For the analysis of films proposed to apply the concept of axiografia developed by Bill Nichols not only the works classified as documentaries, but also to fictions based on real events.