Latin American & Latine Studies Films
Documentary, narrative, and experimental films exploring Latine experiences in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Our collection includes foundational footage of the Young Lords Party and Puerto Rican activism (“El Pueblo Se Levanta”, 1971), contemporary immigration stories, Afro-Latine identity, and transnational narratives spanning Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean diaspora. Filmmakers include Iris Morales, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, and emerging voices exploring Chicano/a, Nuyorican, Dominican, Cuban, and broader Latine identities. Featured titles: “El Pueblo Se Levanta”, “La Cocina de las Patronas”, “Nuyorican Básquet”, “NEGRITA: Racially Black, Ethnically Latina”, “Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories”, “Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern California”. Available for theatrical screening, educational licensing, and archival licensing.
¡Palante, Siempre Palante!
The documentary surveys Puerto Rican history, the Young Lords' activities and philosophy, the torturous end of the organization and its inspiring legacy.
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Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America
Based on the landmark book, HARVEST OF EMPIRE, by award-winning journalist Juan González.
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El Pueblo se Levanta aka The People Are Rising (Newsreel #63)
Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities, Puerto Rican communities in New York City began to address these injustices by using direct action.
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The Case Against Lincoln Center (Newsreel #17)
More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony.
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Break and Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)
In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city.
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Making the Impossible Possible
MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student-led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960s.
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The Woman's Film (Newsreel #55)
Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.
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Living Along the Fenceline
The U.S. has 1,000 bases worldwide. The Pentagon says they make us secure. These women disagree.
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Percussion, Impressions and Reality
Interviews and performances by Puerto Rican musicians in New York illustrate how traditional music has served as mode of resistance of cultural domination.
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Living Quechua
One Peruvian woman’s mission to revive her indigenous language becomes an inspiration for Quechua speakers, a historically marginalized community in New York City.
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My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)
In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of U.S. destabilization of democracy in Central America.
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La Cocina de las Patronas
Day after day, for over 20 years, a group of women in Mexico, prepare and give meals to Central American migrants who travel atop La Bestia, a U.S.-bound freight train.
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All the Ladies Say
Documentary on Female Breakdancers
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The # 7 Train: An Immigrant Journey
Every day 500,000 people from 117 different countries ride a subway that runs from Flushing to Times Square, going through Queens, the most culturally diverse region in the United States.
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NEGRITA: Racially Black, Ethnically Latina
NEGRITA—a Spanish term meaning “little Black girl”—is a personal and probing documentary exploring how anti-Blackness in American and Latino cultures shapes the identities of Afro-Latina women.
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If You Could Walk In My Shoes
IF YOU COULD WALK IN MY SHOES documents the struggle of an Ecuadorian-American family as they transforms their lives from workers to business owners.
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High School Rising (Newsreel #38)
An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organize.
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Nuyorican Básquet
Nuyorican Básquet chronicles the dramatic story of the Puerto Rican national basketball team’s participation in the 1979 Pan American Games.
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Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories
4K Restoration! This documentary film highlights the experience of Black Cuban American family, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe.
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Community Control (Newsreel #24)
In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three New York City school districts to become part of an experiment in community-run education.
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Chircales
This film portrays the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, documenting the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Chircales offers the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.
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Before David
A short film about pre-partum depression, its symptoms, and the difficulties it poses when a woman is going through extreme physical and emotional changes.
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War for Guam
The first public television documentary about the experience and impact of WWII on Guam, a US territory since 1898.
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Lincoln Hospital (Newsreel #35)
When a city-run health clinic in the South Bronx fails to meet the needs of the city, local residents and health workers force a strike and then run the clinic themselves.
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Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor
A street vendor, mother and activist from Guatemala makes $40 a day in New york City, one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
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Imelda Is Not Alone
Salvadorian teenager Imelda Cortez's only hope at freedom is a local citizen’s movement that dares to defend women who are persecuted under El Salvador's total ban on abortion. The result is a shocking account of an ongoing human rights crisis and a moving portrait of those who fight for a better society.
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Fuera Yanqui (Newsreel #)
This film provides a short history of the Dominican Republic and an analysis of the control exerted on its economic structure by U.S. interests.
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Voodoo Dance: A Tribute to the People of Haiti
Documents the significant role of Voodoo in Haitian culture from the perspectives of Voodoo priests, government officials, historians and politicians.
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El Culebrero, La Muerte de un Colombiano y el Acordeonista Que No Esta
This video presents the transient aspects of the gay Colombian experience in New York City.
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A Letter for My Grandson (Una Carta Para Mi Nieto/Ma qilqa allchijataki)
Aymara filmmaker Lourdes Rivas fears that her sole grandson will forget their Indigenous language and tradition.
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Our Big House (Nuestra Casa Grande)
In this animated short, a grandmother from the indigenous Guarayo community remembers her rural village and forest before the arrival of lumber companies that profit from the deforestation of the Amazons in Bolivia.
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Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness in the Bronx
Dance artists Sita Frederick, Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, and Marion Ramirez collaborate to create a performance work that explores Caribbean and Latina-American experiences through dance.
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Musica
A rich overview of the development of Afro-Cuban music in the United States, featuring interviews with Mario Bauza and Dizzie Gillespie.
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Drills of Liberation
In the wake of climate change, a new social movement emerges in Puerto Rico to protest austerity measures imposed by US colonial forces.
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The #1 Bus Chronicles
"The #1 Bus Chronicles" uses a small sociological microcosm – a bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey – to intimately portray some of the most marginalized lives in America today - the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration asylum seekers.
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La Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx
Art, labor, and family blend in this intimate film about Latina performance artist Caridad De La Luz, better known as ‘La Bruja’.
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Deported
DEPORTED follows members of a unique group of outcasts in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America.
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Ch‘alla of the Earth (Ch'alla de la tierra)
A visit to the Challa Grande community, an ayllu, in the Cochabamba region. Felicia, a young Quechua woman, examines the characteristics and significance of her ayllu's traditional clothing.
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Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION
This film explores a now-obscure American expansionist, William Walker, who through military force and coercion became president of Nicaragua in 1856.
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Conquering Fear a.k.a. Overcoming Fear
An empowering fiction film about women’s property rights and domestic violence.
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Catonsville Nine (Newsreel #18)
Filmed in Baltimore during the support demonstrations for the nine catholics who were on trial for napalming the 1-A Draft files in Catonsville, Maryland.
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Anomaly: A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity
A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity
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Salty Dog Blues
SALTY DOG BLUES looks at a group of U.S.merchant marines from 1937-1989; their relationship to the National Maritime Union, a union merger, and a dispute over lost health benefits.
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Three Queer Mice
This short youth-produced animation exposes homophobia to the tune of "Three Blind Mice".
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Viva Eu! (Long Live Me!)
This documentary is a tribute to Wilton Braga, a visionary artist who was one of the first people to be diagnosed with AIDS in Brazil.
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Sanctuary: An Expression of Conscience
Refugees of the Salvadoran Civil War flee persecution and death only to be denied sanctuary under the U.S. Refugee Act.
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Outside Lookin' In
Urban Latino youth reflect on the World Trade Center tragedy, their personal experiences that day, in addition to more pervasive questions and topics as to why it happened, patriotism and the government's response to the attack.
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Our Lady Queen of Harlem: A Portrait of Faith and Rebellion
On a crumbling sidewalk in the heart of Spanish Harlem, a small but impassioned group of women are fighting for their community.
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Little Immigrants
LITTLE IMMIGRANTS is an insider's look into child smuggling captured from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Floristas
Floristas are immigrant flower vendors who scratch out a living by hawking their wares on the streets of New York City.
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Finding D-QU: The Lonely Struggle of California's only Tribal College
In 2005, D-Q University, California’s only tribal college, was shut down after a 35-year struggle, but its supporters fight to hold on to a dream that was never fully realized.
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Gay Cuba
“Gay Cuba” casts a hopeful light on efforts to reform and to humanize a society often maligned for its calcified rigidity.
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Venceremos Brigade (Newsreel #)
A film shot in Cuba in 1970-1971 about two brigades of 500 Americans that went to Cuba in order to show support by breaking the blockade and to help with the sugar harvest of ten million tons.
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To Light the Spirit
Aymara filmmaker Reynaldo Yujra follows the Kallawayas, healers and spiritual leaders of the Chari community of La Paz.
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Tijuana, Nada Mas
Jonathan (“Pollo”) and Enrique (“Gordo”) are 14-year old orphans making their own living on the streets of Tijuana, the busiest frontier city in the world.
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Saints Rising
Saints Rising is a documentary presenting the voices of New Orleans years after Hurricane Katrina and the breech of the levees.
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Our Word: The Story of San Francisco de Moxos
In this docudrama, elders of the San Francisco de Moxos community tell the story of the courageous pioneers who founded their village in the Bolivian Amazons and the indigenous “cabildo”, or neighborhood council, that defended their territory from the influence of outsiders, or “carayanas”.
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Of Kites and Borders
OF KITES OF BORDERS tells the story of the daily struggle to be a child living on the US-Mexico border through the eyes of four working children in the city of Tijuana.
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Isle of Youth
The daily activities of young Cubans—their work, recreation, and education—as they participate in converting the Isle of Pines from a prison colony to an experiment to create a new society.
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Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano
A look at the work of Cuban Hip-Hop artists, this documentary includes footage of their daily lives, perfomances at the Cuban Hip-Hop festival, and recording sessions in New York City.
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Frekuensia Kolombiana
Grassroots Colombian Hip-Hop is shaped by Colombian folk music as well as the suppressed voices of the Colombian masses.
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Favela Rising
Through Hip-Hop music and Afro-Brazilian dance, musician Anderson Sá rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.
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Chronicle of Hope: Nicaragua
An intimate look at a journey made by ordinary Americans to provide humanitarian aid to Nicaragua during the U.S.- sponsored Contra war and economic embargo.
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BRAZ (Brigada Rafael Arce Zablah)
A portrait of the FMLN's Rafael Arce Zablah Brigade (BRAZ), the rebel army, and its development in the context of Salvadoran history.
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Apollo Kids
Gio misses the #6 train which too frequently bypasses his Spanish Harlem stop. One missed train means public humiliation by his teacher, suspension from school, and harassment by a cop.
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Among the First to Die
This is the story of one of the first American casualties of the War against Terror - Lance Corporal Jose Gutierrez, a 28-year-old Guatemalan, who joined the Marines because "he wanted to give back a little bit to his adopted country,"
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A Time of Daring (Tiempo de audacia)
Scenes from both sides of the Salvadorian Civil War: U.S. advisors with government troops on one side and guerrilla fighters and their supporters on the other.
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A Ride Out (Una Vuelta)
After a one-night affair, a Latina’s examines her heritage in the context of passion and the erotic.
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A Refutation of Time
A student from the Large Midwestern University receives an unusual e-mail message about the nature of time, tango singer Carlos Gardel, the humorist Will Rodgers, and writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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COVER/AGE
Sickness does not discriminate. Why should healthcare?
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