Latine 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”, "NEGRITA: Racially Black, Ethnically Latina", “Nuyorican Básquet”, “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Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.
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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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All the Ladies Say
Documentary on Female Breakdancers
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Deported
DEPORTED follows members of a unique group of outcasts in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America.
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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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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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Three Queer Mice
This short youth-produced animation exposes homophobia to the tune of "Three Blind Mice".
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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