If you are looking for a good capoeira video with real honest to goodness capoeira, you're going to have to go shopping. There are a ton of useless little free downloadable clips all over the internet, buy you'll waste hours and hours looking for nothing. Great capoeira videos are generally available on DVD whether they are from batizados or instructional, that's the best place to find them. You can find a great capoeira video selection on a couple different websites, I think the best two are virtualcapoeira.com and capoeiraarts.com. They have the highest quality capoeira videos and by far the greatest selection. Virtualcapoeira.com has a cool feature where you can actually preview a piece of the capoeira video you're looking at so you can check out the quality before you buy it, a useful feature. DVDs are the way to go if you're looking for good roda footage just to watch or if you're trying to pick up some new moves, etc. Lots of places are promising to do movement videos but I haven't found any extensive variety yet.

On to the capoeira video craze in the media: most recently it was on a Visa commercial during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. There were two cuts of this commercial, at the end of the more common one, there's a guy that does a back flip (folha seca style) off the trunk of a tree. Ok that's not just Capoeira, but in another cut of the same commercial the same guy does that flip and then does a little sequence that is unmistakably Capoeira, he does a little sweeping entrance into an au de frente sem mao or au de frente solta, whatever you call it. Here's a list of places you can see capoeira hitting video:

Capoeira in TV commercials:

Torino Olympics 2006 Visa commercial

Nike commercial (I never saw this one, but you can got to Grupo Capoeira Brasil's web page and it's listed there).

Mazda, "zoom zoom"... aka zum zum zum

McDonalds

Dockers- this one even had a berimbau in the background as two guys played in a roda (wearing dockers pants of course) the girl playing the berimbau didn't look like she knew what she was doing.

There's a bottled water commercial that I found on the internet that I think was from Australia that was pure capoeira.

Capoeira in Music Videos:

So there's lots of videos that have little clips of capoeira stuff, I'm not a huge music guru so I don't know the names of all the songs, but here goes:

Usher, in Caught Up has a capoeira fight scene including queixadas and martelo rodados.

Madonna did one where there's a bunch of break dancing cowboys that do amazonas (au batido).

I saw a mariposa in a Mariah Carey music video, don't ask me which one.

Apparently there's some in a Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera video too, I haven't seen these.

Capoeira in the Movies--This is the fun list: