Latin American Studies
Documentary and narrative 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”, “Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories”, “Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern California”. Available for theatrical screening, educational licensing, and archival licensing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Angels of the Earth, The
In his first trip to the city, Sinchi faces deceit, violence and rejection from strangers and from his long lost brother, Antonio.
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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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Punta Soul
Chronicles the evolution of popular Garifuna music from Belize and explores the role of the music in Belize's cultural awakening.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the Absence of Peace
The story of Nicaraguans in the aftermath of four decades of dictatorship, their revolution, and the United States involvement in the continuing conflict.
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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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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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Commander Clelia: Political Prisoner
Five women, including FMLN Commander Lilian Mercedes Letona "Clelia", speak about their imprisonment after they are released from the Women's Prison of Ilopango when the Salvadoran government declared a general amnesty for political prisoners in 1983.
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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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Autonomy
Struggle for self-governance on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua.
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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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A Time of Victory: Nine Years of War in El Salvador
A portrait of nine years of revolutionary war and counterinsurgency in El Salvador.
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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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