Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.
As Armas e o Povo is a Portuguese collective documentary film directed and produced by the Collective of Workers of the Cinematographic Activity, on the initiative of the National Union of Cinema Professionals that portrays the period lived between the Carnation Revolution and the Labor Day of that year.