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Park, Annabel & Byler, Eric
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9500 Liberty documents the first time in U.S. history that an Arizona-style immigration
law was actually implemented—and the surprising grassroots opposition that led to
its repeal.
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A Day Without a Mexican: A Mockumentary
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Offers a satirical look at the consequences of all the Mexicans in the state of California suddenly disappearing (with a mysterious "pink fog" surrounding the state preventing
any communication or movement with the outside world). A series of characters show
the apparent statistical impact of Mexicans on California's economy, law enforcement
and education systems as well as the resulting social unrest.
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Documentary profiling Pedro J. Gonzalez from his days in Mexican Revolution to his
recording stardom in 1930's Los Angeles.
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Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
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In 1949, photographer Don Normark stumbled on Chavez Ravine, a closely-knit Mexican-American
village on a hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles. Enchanted, he stayed for a year
and took hundreds of photographs never knowing he was capturing on film the last images
of a place that was about to disappear.
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Chiapas 1998: The Bad Harvest
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Chiapas 1998: La Mala Cosecha (The Bad Harvest) is collaboration between indigenous
and non-indigenous video-makers, which documents severe food shortages in 1998. A
six-month drought followed by heavy rains and flooding destroyed 50% of the corn crops
and 80% of the bean crops. This natural disaster, combined with the constant harassment
by 60,000 troops and coupled with extreme poverty and marginalization, left the communities
with few options.
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Each year, residents of San Diego's Barrio Logan celebrate the events of April 22,
1970 when members of La Raza and other groups took over land slated for redevelopment
and established Chicano Park. This documentary meshes archival footage, photographs
and contemporary interviews to trace the history of Barrio Logan and its struggles
to reclaim a part of "Aztlan," the mythical Aztec kingdom of the Southwest that has
come to symbolize the powerful renewal of Chicano pride.
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Chicano: History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, Episode One: "Quest
for a Homeland" |
Ruiz, Jose Luis |
Examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the
land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. |
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Chicano: History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, Episode Two: "The
Struggle in the Fields"
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Examines the importance of César Chávez and his efforts to organize farm workers in
the central valley of California. It delineates the various components of Chávez's
strategy for farm worker self determination—strikes, boycotts, pilgrimages, fasts—and
emphasizes his commitment to nonviolence and the importance of faith and prayer in
achieving his goal.
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Chicano: History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, Episode Three: "Taking
Back the Schools"
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The best of the four episodes, it covers the Los Angeles high school blow outs of
1968 thoroughly and with passion.
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Chicano: History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, Episode Four: "Fighting
for Political Power"
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Discusses the creation of La Raza Unida Party as a third party force for political
power and the importance of political rights. It culminates in the 1972 election and
the Raza Unida convention, and the fragmentation of the party at the height of its
membership and recognition.
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Chulas Fronteras AND Del Mero Corazon
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These two films are combined on one video for a 90 minute film on Tejano music, culture,
and history.
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American Border Patrol is a part of Voice of Citizens Together (VCT), the oldest
and largest immigration reform organization in Los Angeles County. VCT has been engaged
in the fight against illegal immigration since 1991.
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Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program, Cosecha Triste
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Gonzalez, Gilberto G.; Price, Vivian; Salinas, Adrian
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Hidden within the historical accounts of minorities, workers and immigrants in American
society is the story of the millions of Mexico's men and women who experienced the
temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program. Established to replace
an alleged wartime labor shortage, research reveals that the Program intended to undermine
farm worker unionization. Harvest shows how several million men, in one of the largest
state managed migrations in history, were imported from 1942 to 1964 to work as cheap,
controlled and disposable workers
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Immigration: Threatening the Bonds of Our Union: Part I: Courage and Capitulation
in California
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American Border Patrol is a part of Voice of Citizens Together (VCT), the oldest
and largest immigration reform organization in Los Angeles County. VCT has been engaged
in the fight against illegal immigration since 1991.
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Immigration: Threatening the Bonds of Our Union: Part II: Treachery and Treason in
America
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American Border Patrol is a part of Voice of Citizens Together (VCT), the oldest
and largest immigration reform organization in Los Angeles County. VCT has been engaged
in the fight against illegal immigration since 1991.
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Inner Borderlines: Visions of America Through the Eyes of Alejandro Morales
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Inner Borderlines is the image that guides this documentary and represents the idea
of multiculturalism. So we follow the writer and professor Alejandro Morales, in his
journey around Southern California as he tries to understand many issues concerning
the Latino population in California and the U.S. society. It deals with ideas such
as the first immigrants to California; The Californios and how California was taken
over by Anglo-Americans; how the city of Irvine came to be; the heart of Orange County:
Santa Ana; what a Barrio is; what "white flight" means; Simons town: a city that built
Los Angeles; being a Chicano writer...
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Hear from daring riders and skilled ropers and discover the differences between Western-style
and Mexican-style rodeo!
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La Epopeya de la Revolucion/ Epic History of the Revolution
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A documentary film, the only one authorized by the Mexican National Defense Department,
has authentic scenes of the heroic Mexican Revolution-filmed as they were in the battle
field more than half a century ago.
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Toscano, Salvador & Carmen
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This videobook presents the history of the Mexican Revolution filmed lived by Salvador
Toscano, a Mexican Cinema pioneer. Re-live the Mexican Revolution protagonists one
by one, the splendor of the Porfiriato to the enthusiastic democracy that woke up
the candidacy of Francisco I. Madero. The Civil War that broke off the Tenth Tragedy;
Zapata in the South, Villa in the North, the formation of the Constitutional Army
with Carranza and the formation of the revolutionary governments with Obregon and
Calles.
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In 1943, Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez led a community battle that changed California
forever and set an important legal precedent for ending segregation in the United
States. Their children were turned away from an "Anglo School," spurring a historic
and precedent-setting lawsuit whose key players included NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall
and then-California Governor Earl Warren.
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Mountain's Mist and Mexico
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A portrait of Mexican immigration to the Mid-West. This personal documentary examines
issues of assimilation, class structure, language, and ethics on both sides of the
border.
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Espino, Virginia & Tajima-Pena, Renee
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A documentary on sterilization of Mexican-origin women, followed by a panel discussion
with Renee Tajima-Peña (film director, University of California at Santa Cruz) and
Elena Gutiérrez (University of Illinois at Chicago), to be moderated by María Cotera
(University of Michigan). This film-in-progress is about the contested history of
nonconsensual sterilizations performed on Mexican-American women in a Los Angeles
public hospital in the 1970s, the lawsuit that followed, and the legacy of sterilization
abuse.
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Pancho Villa and Other Stories
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This remarkable account of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and one of its most
important and enigmatic protagonists, Francisco "Pancho" Villa, is a unique achievement
in the realm of historical documentaries. Producer Phillip Rodriguez places at the
center of the film the personal stories of men and women—all now deceased—who were
witnesses to and participants in the Revolution.
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Peregrinos: From Delano to Sacramento In 24 Days
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Ricardo, Vanessa & Trejo, Laura
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A film documenting an arduous 330 mile pilgrimage over a 24-day period, recreating
the historic 1966 UFW march from Delano to Sacramento.
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Chronicles the life stories of four individuals from New York's Puerto Rican community,
each of whom has attempted to assimilate to life in America, but who also maintain
strong ties to their cultural heritage.
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Maryknoll World Productions
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Using rarely-seen footage, the program shows how officers who studied at the school
are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people--including Archbishop
Romero of El Salvador. It reveals the hidden world of the School of the Americas,
and the work of church people, activists and members of Congress to close it down.
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The American Border Patrol Story
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A documentary about the protection of our borders.
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The Brick People chronicles the story and legacy of the Mexican immigrants who came
to work at Simons Brickyard #3 in Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century.
At one time it was the largest brickyard in the world, shipping as many as one million
bricks each day. The bricks they made literally built Los Angeles and the surrounding
Southern California area.
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The Hunt for Pancho Villa
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Documentary for PBS' American Experience series examining Pancho Villa's dramatic
1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico and the American expedition mounted to capture him.
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The Sixth Section: Immigrants Organizing Across Borders
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The Sixth Section is a groundbreaking documentary that follows the transnational organizing
of a community of Mexican immigrants who live in and work in upstate New York. the
men profiled in the film form an organization devoted to raising money in the United
States to rebuild their hometown in Mexico. In the process, they accomplish more
than they expected-they find power. There are at least a thousand of these "hometown
associations," and they are having a major impact in both America and Mexico. The
Sixth Section is the first documentary to tell this story.
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The War on Chiapas/ La Guerra en Chiapas
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Escamilla, Esperanza; Garcia, Adriana; Madrid, Norma
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Desde Enero de 1989 Canal le de Julio ha llegado, a traves del videocast, a cerca
de tres milliones de personas. Su difusion y sostenimiento los hace directamente el
espectador y por eso puede mostrar - con criterio independiente - informacion y puntos
de vista que la television mexicana oculta.
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Tierra O Muerte: Land or Death
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Examines a little-known community of Mexican-Americans in the Chama Valley of New
Mexico. There, descendants of early Mexican shepherds use techniques of civil disobedience
to fight off developers in order to regain their historical claim to pasture land
and their traditional values.
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U.S. Mexican War 1846-1848
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The war that transformed the continent. The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-48) tells the
dramatic story of a war in which Mexico lost almost half of it's national territory
to the U.S. This critically acclaimed documentary series explores the events surrounding
the conflict between two neighboring nations struggling for land, power, and identity.
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VHS/ Book/ Teachers Guide
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Viva La Causa: 500 Years of Chicano History (Teacher's Kit)
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A 2 part educational video in English, that offers a compelling introduction to the
history of Mexican American people. Based on the book "500 Years of Chicano History
in Pictures" by Elizabeth Martinez.
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Using evocative original photography and moving interviews with eyewitnesses, Zoot
Suit Riots tells the story of the trial and the violent events of the following summer.
Several months after the teens were convicted, racial tensions led to full-scale riots
between servicemen and the Mexican American community.
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