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UC-Berkeley
List of Latino Videos
VIDEOS
ON LATINOS & LATINAS IN THE U.S.
MILLER LIBRARY – BY Cmty 475-575 TOPICS
FEATURE
FILMS
[LATINO-DIRECTED
& INDEPENDENT FILMS]
DVD Call #: PN1997 .R435 2003x
Title Real women have curves
HBO Video, [2003], c2002.
Summary Should she leave home, go to college
and experience life? Or stay home, get married, and keep working in her
sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem an easy decision, but for
18-year-old Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life.
DVD Call #: PN1997 .M942 2004x
Title My family
directed by Gregory Nava.
Publisher New Line Home Entertainment, 2004
SUMMARY: Follows the life of three
generational family in East Los Angeles.
Location:
VIDEO
PQ7079.2.R5
Y213 1994x
Title:
--and the earth did not swallow him
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y.] : Kino International, 1994 99 min
Summary:
Adapted from Tomas Rivera's novel, The life of a Mexican American family in
the 1950s as seen through the eyes of a son and the adversity and poverty he and
his family faced as migrant farm workers.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.N678 1984x
Title:
El Norte [The North
/
directed by
Gregory Nava ;
Summary:
Beginning in the remote mountain jungles of Guatemala, awash with the
lushness of nature and the rainbow colors of the Mayans, this highly-acclaimed
drama about a brother and sister seeking a better life centers on two young
Indians. When their father is killed by government soldiers and their mother
taken away, they set out for the "promised land" to the north—(Los
Angeles)
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.S936 1989x
Title: El Super] /
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, c1989, 1979 (80 min.) :
Summary:
A humorous and touching view of Cuban exiles living in a basement apartment
during a snowy winter in New York. El Super is the story of Roberto, a
superintendent, who dreams of his warm and friendly homeland, and stubbornly
refuses to assimilate into the new culture.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.H3534 1991x
Title:
Hangin' with the homeboys
Publisher:
Burbank, CA : SVS/Triumph Home Video, c1991.. 89 min.)
Summary: Four
Bronx buddies head to Manhattan for a wild night on the town in this urban
comedy.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.B3731 1987x
Title:
La Bamba
Publisher:
Burbank, Calif. : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, c1987.
Description:
1 videocassette (VHS)
Summary: The man, the myth, and the music that brought
America to its feet and catapulted 17 year-old Ritchie Valens to rock 'n' roll
stardom live again
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.D67x
PUERTO RICAN FILM (?)
Title:
Los Dos mundos de Angelita = The Two worlds of Angelita
/
Publisher::
First-Run Features, 1983. (75 min.)
Summary:
A story about a nine-year-old girl who moved from her home in Puerto Rico to
New York City and finds fitting into a new school overwhelming.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.M5534 1988x
Title:
The Milagro beanfield war
Publisher:
Universal City, CA : MCA Home Video, c1988.
Description:
1 videocassette (118 min.)
Mexican
American family fights for water & landrights in “magic-realism”
southwest setting
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.M935 1995x
Title:
My family
Francis Ford Coppola presents a New Line Cinema; Gregory
Nava
1995. (126 min.)
Summary:
A powerful, three-generation epic saga of the Sanchez family as told by the
eldest son. From the very beginnings of his father's adventurous journey from
Mexico to California in the 1920s, to his brother Chucho's tragic rebellion of
the 1950s, to the stark realities of modern day, the struggle to live the
American dream is sometimes darkened but never diminished.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.S258 1987x
Title:
Salt of the earth /
Publisher:
Oak Forest, IL : MPI Home Video, [1987? 94 min.)
Performer-Note:
Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacón, Will Geer.
Summary:
A 1950s social drama which depicts the attempt of a New Mexican mining
company to break a union strike of underprivileged Mexican and American workers,
who endeavor to prevent their wives from participation on an equal basis in the
strike. Making of this film was attacked by “House UnAmerican Activities”
& McCarthy, and the star Rosaura Revueltas was deported to Mexico where some
scenes were completed.
VIDEO
PN1997
.S7263 1988x
Title:
Stand and deliver
Publisher:
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1988. (103 min.)
Summary:
Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High
School, who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers. Escalante
pushes and inspires 18 students who were struggling with math to become math
whizzes.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.Z66 1991x
Title:
Zoot suit
a Luis Valdez film
Publisher:
Universal City, CA : MCA Universal Home Video (104 min.)
Summary:
A group of Mexican Americans are sent to San Quentin unjustly for the death
of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. Based on the actual zoot suit case and riots of
1940's Los Angeles. Rated R
LATINO
FEATURE FILMS AVAILABLE IN VIDEO STORES
(Not
in Library)
Bread and Roses
Selena
(Tejana singer)
American
Me (Mexican "mafia" in Calif Prisons)
Mambo
Kings (Cuban musicians in NY - romance)
Perez
Family (Cuban immigrants-comedy)
COMMUNITIES
& FAMILIES
DVD Call #: F869.L89 .M5145 2004x
Title
Chavez Ravine: a Los Angeles Story
Bullfrog Films; 2004.
1 videodisc (24 min.)
Summary This documentary captures how a
community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy, and good intentions gone
astray. Don Normark's haunting photographs evoke a lost Mexican-American village
in the heart of downtown LA, razed in the 1950's to build an enormous low-income
housing project. Instead, the federally purchased land was used for Dodger
Stadium
Location:
VIDEO
LC2688.L47
L466 1985x
Title: The Lemon Grove incident /
KPBS-TV, San Diego
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y.] : Cinema Guild, c1985.
Summary:
Focusing on one of the earliest school desegregation cases, uses
dramatizations, archival footage, and recollections of witnesses to examine the
response of the Mexican-American community in Lemon Grove, Calif., to a 1930
school board attempt to create a segregated Mexican school in the district.
Location:
VIDEO
HV6439.U5
H43x
Title:
The heart broken in half :
a documentary
Dwight Conquergood (Northwestern
Univ-Illinois)
Publisher:
Filmakers Library, Inc (57 min.)
Summary:
An
in-depth look at the street gangs of the Albany Park neighborhood in Chicago and
the socio-economic conditions that give rise to them. Includes comments by
neighborhood residents, interviews with several young gang members, scenes from
the funeral and burial of a gang member who was killed in the street, and an
extensive analysis of the intricate network of symbols, logos and icons,
expressed in graffiti, that serve the gangs as a complex visual code for
displaying identity and challenging rivals.
Location:
VIDEO
CS16
.A54 1997 pt.1x
Title:
Getting started
[RESEARCH USING FAMILY GENEALOGIES]
Publisher:
Provo, Utah : KBYU, Brigham Young University (30 min
Summary:
"This episode presents helpful insights for starting your family
history. Guests include Victor Villaseñor, who grew up in Southern California
as a Mexican-American and found great value in learning about his ancestors, and
expert Desmond Allen who introduces the pedigree chart and explains how to use
it as an important tool for recording information about your ancestors."
Location:
VIDEO
E184.M5
M4x
Reserve:
MAIN/RESERVE PHI 027-VI
Title:
Mexican Americans: an historic profile
Publisher:
New York : Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, [1985 (30 min.) Summary:
The history of the Mexican American from the Spanish Conquest to the present
time is traced, with archive drawings, still photographs, and documentary film
footage. Concentrates on the development of economic and political grassroots
governments within Mexican American communities of the Southwest.
Location:
VIDEO
PZ7
.M94 1988x
Title:
My father, my brother, and me
Publisher:
Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, 1988. (24 min
Summary:
This story presents a study of family loyalty and the special needs of the
mentally retarded. Paulita's family are migrant workers, moving from field to
field and from harvest to harvest--a difficult way of life made harder by the
fear that the authorities will take Paco away from them if they find out that he
is retarded. When Paco wanders away from camp and the police find him, Paulita
must find a way of convincing the court that love is more important than
lifestyle.
FAMILY:
See also Feature Films such as My Family, La Bamba, Los Dos Mundos de
Angelita, Like Water for Chocolate
COMMUNITY-BUILDING
THROUGH CULTURE
MUSIC
- LATINO ARTS – THE MEDIA
DVD Call #: F869.L89 .M5145 2004x
Title
Chavez Ravine: a Los Angeles Story
Bullfrog Films; 2004.
1 videodisc (24 min.)
Summary This documentary captures how a
community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy, and good intentions gone
astray. Don Normark's haunting photographs evoke a lost Mexican-American village
in the heart of downtown LA, razed in the 1950's to build an enormous low-income
housing project. Instead, the federally purchased land was used for Dodger
Stadium
Location:
VIDEO
F869.S22
C4x
Title:
Chicano Park
produced by Mario Barrera &
Marilyn Mulford ; Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Cinema Guild, [between
1988 and 1991. (59 min.) Summary: Under the San Diego approaches to the
San Diego-Coronado Bridge is Chicano Park in San Diego, Calif., and its murals.
This is the story of its creation and a history of the Chicano community in San
Diego.
Location:
VIDEO
F395.M5
C48 1994x
Title:
Chulas fronteras
directed by Les Blank. Del mero corazón
= Straight from the heart : love songs of the Southwest
Publisher:
El Cerrito, CA : Brazos Films, c1994. (86 min.)
Summary:
Two documentaries about Mexican-Americans in southern Texas. Chulas
fronteras features their music and culture, showing food preparation, family
life, dances, fieldwork, and other social activities. Del mero corazon
explores the Mexican-American norteño music tradition, showing various
performers in dance halls and cantinas.
Location:
VIDEO
PN2270.M48
B47 1993x
Title:
Bettina Gray speaks with Luis Valdez [/ KQED, San Francisco
Publisher:
Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1993. (26 min.) Summary:
Bettina Gray interviews Luis Valdez, the celebrated founder of the Teatro
Campesino, the West Coast theatrical group that has given voice to the struggles
of Chicano farm workers. As a child, Valdez picked fruit alongside his father in
California's fertile valleys. In this program, he describes how he became a
playwright and director and explains how his plays retrace the experience of
Chicano families.
Location:
VIDEO
ML3560.M49
O97x
Title:
Our Mexican American musical heritage
Publisher:
Huntsville, Texas : Educational Video Network, Inc., [198 (55 min.) : sd.,
col. Summary: Musical conductor Maurice Peress discusses the history of
the clash between the Spanish and Indian cultures as expressed in the music and
musical instruments of Mexican Americans. Includes interviews with Carlos Chavez
and Aaron Copland.
Location:
VIDEO
M1668.4
.T49 1990x
Title:
Tex-Mex : music of the Texas-Mexican borderlands.
Publisher:
[Newton, NJ] : Shanachie Records, 1982, p1990.
Summary:
Presents music of the Texas-Mexico border area and includes performances and
intimate conversations with Tex-Mex stars such as Lydia Mendoza, Frank Rodarte,
Little Joe Hernandez and others.
Location:
VIDEO
E184.S75
H5953 1998x
Title:
Hispanics in the media
Publisher:
Princeton, NJ :Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 199844 min
Summary:
Explores the current role of Hispanics in the media including interviews
with Geraldo Rivera, Moctesuma Esparz, David Valdez, Rita Moreno, Elizabeth Peña,
Jimmy Smits and Isiah Morales. Summary: From news anchors to editors,
from actors to filmmakers, hispanics are making their presence known.
Discrimination still exists, however. In this program, Hispanics who have made
it describe how they did it, the problems they encountered along the way, and
the hurdles that remain. Hispanic actors examine why Hispanic actors are still
relegated to marginal roles. Also looks at the growth potential of the
ever-expanding Hispanic media marketplace.
SEE
ALSO: Mexican film on Frida Kahlo
CIVIL
RIGHTS, POLITICS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Video Call #: E184.M5 R47x
Title Requiem—29
[videorecording]
Publisher NLCC Educational Media c1997, 1971
1 videocassette (31 min.)
Summary Tells the story of the August 29th,
1970, National Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles. documents the inhumane
treatment of 50,000 Chicanos by police and the death of L.A. Times journalist
Ruben Salazar at the Chicano National Moratorium in Los Angeles on Aug. 29,
1970.
Location: Video E184.S75 P59 1992x
Title:
Power, politics and Latinos
Publisher: Galan Productions, Inc. and the National Latino Communications
Center ; presented by NLCC and KCET Los Angeles ; written by Luis Torres ;
producer/director, Hector Galan ; executive producers, Jose Luis Ruiz, Joyce
Campbell. Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video c1992.
Location:
VIDEO
E184.M5
C5x
Title:
Chicano
Publisher:
Santa Monica, Calif. : BFA Educational Media, 1971 (23 min.)
Summary:
An open-ended film which explores the various manifestations of bias,
oppression, and discrimination that affect the Mexican-American. Presents the
goals of the Chicano movement and the various organizations which represent the
Mexican-American community.
Location:
VIDEO
E185
.Y6 1985x
Title:
Yo soy /
Publisher:
New York, NY : Cinema Guild, 1985
Summary:
Examines the key issues, problems, and concerns of the Mexican-American
community in the United States, reviews the progress Chicanos have recently made
in politics, education, labor, and economic development, and summarizes the ways
they are responding to the challenges of the future.
Location:
VIDEO
E184.M5
C4 1996 pt.1x
Title:
Chicano!: the history of the Mexican American civil rights movement.
PART 1, Quest for a homeland
Publisher:
Los Angeles, CA : NLCC Educational Media 1996. (57 min.)
Summary:
A four part series chronicling various aspects of the struggles for equal
rights by Mexican Americans. Episode 1 examines the events at Tierra
Amarilla, New Mexico, that sparked a national movement for social justice. It
focuses on the 1967 struggle by Mexican Americans to regain ownership of New
Mexico lands guaranteed them by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and then
visits the landmark Denver Youth Conference in 1969. The program concludes with
the Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War, held in East Los Angeles
in 1970...an event that turned into a tragic riot resulting in the death of
renowned journalist Ruben Salazar.
CHICANO!
PT 2
E184.M5
C4 1996 pt.2x
Episode 2
examines the efforts of farmworkers to form a national labor union. Under the
leadership of nonviolence advocate Cesar Chavez, farmworkers launched a strike
against California grape growers in 1965, demanding better working conditions
and fair wages. In 1970, they undertook a national table grape boycott that
eventually led to the first union contracts in farm labor history. An important
milestone in the struggle was the passage of the California Labor Relations Act.
CHICANO!
PT 3
E184.M5
C4 1996 pt.3x
Episode
3 documents the Mexican-American struggle to reform an educational system that
failed to properly educate Chicano students, resulting in a more than 50% drop
out rate, and leaving many others illiterate and unskilled. It focuses on the
1968 walkout by thousands of Mexican-American high school students in East Los
Angeles, which resulted in conspiracy indictments against 13 community leaders.
CHICANO!
PT 4
E184.M5
C4 1996 pt.4x
Episode
4 focuses on the emergence in Texas of Mexican-American political power and the
creation of a third political party, La Raza Unida. Although the idea of a third
party eventually proved ineffectual, La Raza Unida inspired a generation of
political activists and pioneered voter registration strategies that eventually
led to the election of thousands of Chicanos to political office.
IMMIGRATION
Location:
VIDEO
HV6920
.G63x
Title:
Go back to Mexico!
Galan Productions, Inc. for Frontline.
Publisher:
Boston : WGBH Educational Foundation PBS Video, c1994 (57 min.)
Title-Series:
Frontline
Summary:
The story of one woman's attempt illegally to immigrate from Mexico to the
United States amidst the background of growing public opposition to illegal
immigration, particularly in California.
Location:
VIDEO
JV6465
.E58 1996x
Title:
Entire sueños y fronteras : las huellas del
inmigrate en los Estados Unidos
Publisher: Maryknoll, N.Y. :
Maryknoll World Productions, c1996. (56 min
Summary:
A three-part program focusing on the human drama behind U.S. immigration
policies, especially as it relates to the U.S. and Mexico. 1) En mutua relación:
examines U.S. economic policies and the power of transnational
corporations(maquiladoras) and how they contribute to Social and economic
disparity. 2 )Al lado de nosotros: documents the arduous passage an immigrant
endures to become accepted as a U.S. Citizen.3) Y con el mazo dando: Looks at
new immigrants and the values of family, faith and work that strengthen America
with the arrival of each group of immigrants.
Location:
VIDEO
E184.M5
T54 1996x
Title:
The Ties that bind: stories behind the immigration controversy.
Publisher:
Maryknoll, N.Y. : Maryknoll World Productions, [199-?] (56 min.) Summary:
Looks at the human drama behind the current debate over U.S. immigration
policy. The program roams both sides of the Texas-Mexico border to present the
human face of immigrants and their families. Explores the root causes of
immigration and recounts the ardous passage endured by many immigrants.
WORK,
FARMWORKERS, UNION ORGANIZING
SEE
ALSO: FEATURE FILMS, Salt of the
Earth / ..and the earth did not swallow him.
Location:
VIDEO
HD5326.C3
W3x
Title: Watsonville on strike: a documentary
/ by Jon Silver.
Publisher:
Watsonville, Calif. : Migrant Media Productions, 1989. (65 min.)
Summary:
Relates events of strike of Mexican American frozen food workers in
Watsonville, Calif. commencing September, 1985, lasting 18 months
Location:
VIDEO
HD8039.A82
M6 1990x
Title:
$4 a day? No way! [: joining hands across the border
Summary:
Documents events at a Ford plant in Mexico to support the view that
international corporations exploit Mexican workers. Tells how workers, unable to
get help from the official government trade union, are reaching out to labor
unions in other countries for assistance.
Location:
VIDEO
HD1527.C2
J3 1989x
Title:
Jaula de oro golden cage : a story of California's farmworkers.
Publisher:
New York : Filmakers Library, c1989. (29 min.)
Summary:
A documentary on the experiences of Mexican farmworkers in California and
their isolation in a land of plenty. The history of the United Farmworkers Union
is traced from the sixties to its current decline and the impact of the new
immigration law is also examined.
LATINA
WOMEN
SEE
ALSO: Salt of the Earth; Frida; Like Water for Chocolate
Location:
VIDEO
E184.M5
A2965 1992x
Title:
Adelante, Mujeres!
produced by the National Women's
History Project. Publisher: Windsor, CA : N.W.H.P., c1992. (30 min.)
Summary:
"Focuses on the history of Mexican-American/Chicana women. The major
themes, organizations and personalities are introduced chronologically in a
tribute to the strengths and resilience of women at the center of their
families, as activists in their communities and as contributors to American
history"
Location:
VIDEO
E184.S75
T47x
Title:
The Three stages of Latino life
Publisher:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences,c1992. (28 min
Summary:
Birth, adulthood, death - the stages are the same for all humans, but
Latinos celebrate them in their own way. Discusses new rituals that mark stages
in the life of Hispanic- Americans. This video follows a Mexican-American mother
through the final stages of her pregnancy and the birth of her fifth child;
examines the replacement for the traditional milestones which mark maturity
among Latino youth; and observes how modern-day Latinos faced with a death in
the family are adapting traditional mourning customs with new strategies.
Location:
VIDEO
F870.M5
C677 1997x
Title:
El corrido de Cecilia Rios
Publisher:
Hohokus, NJ : New Day Films, c1997. (15 min.)
Summary:
"When the life of Cecilia Rios is tragically cut short by her brutal
murder, a group of teens comes together to commemorate her life and speak out
about the violence that intersects their lives"
LATINOS/AS
& ETHNIC IDENTITY, CULTURE, etc
Location:
VIDEO
E184.S75
H59517 1998x
Title: Hispanics, their differences : myth or fact
Publisher:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1998. 44
Summary:
Anglo-American tend to lump Hispanics together, forgetting that the category
covers a wide range of cultural backgrounds. Examines the differences and
similarities between Hispanics in the United States. Three families are
spotlighted; one Puerto Rican, one Mexican American and one Cuban American.
Explores how they view themselves and how they view each other.
Location:
VIDEO
E184.S75
H5952 1998x
Title:
Hispanic Americans : the second generation
Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities &
Sciences, 1998. (44 min.) Summary: Examines how the second generation
Hispanics are adapting to American society, and how they are maintaining their
Latino roots while assimilating into the American cultural mainstream. Explores
how they view themselves and how they view each other. A vareity of famous and
everyday Hispanics are interviewed, including film director Richard Rodriquez.
Location:
VIDEO
E184.S75
B5x
Title:
Biculturalism and acculturation among Latinos
Publisher:
: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1991.
Summary:
Many Latinos struggle with pressures to reclaim and reaffirm their heritage
while simultaneously facing pressures to assimilate into the dominent American
culture. This program examines the question of which part of their culture
Latinos feel they should keep and leave behind and looks at the relationship
between ethnic identity and entrepreneurial success.
Location: Video E184.M5 M4x
Title:
Mexican Americans: an historic profile
/ Anti-defamation League of
B'nai B'rith ; in cooperation with the Southwest Council of La Raza. New York :
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, [198-?].
Location:
VIDEO
F1408
.A617 pt.10x
Title:
The Americans \
executive producer Judith Vecchione ; produced
& written by Peter Bull & Joseph Tovares.
Publisher:
South Burlington, VT : Annenberg/CPB c1993. (60 min.)
Summary: This
program examines the impact that Hispanics in the United States are having on
American society, culture and politics. It looks at three groups: Cuban in
Miami, Puerto Ricans in New York City and Chicanos in Southern California.
Location:
VIDEO
E184.P85
I8x
Title:
An Island in America
Publisher:
New York, NY : Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1972.(28 min.) : Summary:
Explores the cultural, social, and economic life of Puerto Ricans in the
United States, set against a background of the history of the island of Puerto
Rico. Emphasizes new concepts in the education of Puerto Rican children,
especially the teaching of English as a second language
Location:
VIDEO
E184.S75
L352 1998x
Title: Latin and African Americans : friends or foes?
Publisher:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1998. 44 min
Summary:
Explores the tensions and misunderstandings that exist between Latinos and
Afro-Americans. In Los Angeles, Mexican Americnas resent the African American
perception of them as illegal immigrants who are taking their jobs. In Miami,
Cubans address the cultural isolation that characterizes the division bwtween
blacks and Hispanics there. In New York, Puero Ricans and blacks speak frankly
about competition for educational and financial resources.
Location:
VIDEO
LC2670
.R55 1994x
Title:
Richard Rodriguez : victim of two cultures
/
Films for the Humanities & the Sciences . (50 min.)
Summary:
Presents Rodriguez' experiences of growing up in America as the son of
immigrants, the loss of his "Mexican soul", and his first exposure to
American culture. Discussion focuses also on the differences between Mexican and
American cultures, including Rodriguez' observations on America's growing sense
of loss and the essence of American society today.
HISTORY
[ Latinos in Context of U.S. History]
Location:
VIDEO
F591
.W48 1996 pt.2x
Title:
Empire upon the trails /
Publisher:
PBS Home Video, c1996. (84 min)
Summary:
From Mexican landowners in California to Native American tribes in the Black
Hills, discover various perspectives on territorial claims to the West and the
history of U.S. annexation. This segment explains how events, such as the Texas
War of Independence, opened the door to U.S. annexation. Diary excerpts, letters
and other primary resources vivdly portray the experiences of early Oregon Trail
setlers and the Mormons.
Location:
VIDEO
E405
.U8 1998 pt.2x
Title:
U.S. Mexican War, 1846-1848.
Publisher:
[Alexandra, Va.] : PBS Home Video, c1998. (ca. 120 min.)
Summary:
This two-part documentary tells the story of the U.S. Mexican War in which
Mexico lost almost half of its national territory to the United States. In this
second segment former Mexican President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
returns from exile to unite Mexico against the U.S. invasion. President Polk
decides to open a second front against Mexico and strike deep into Mexico's
heartland. Santa Anna is unable to turn back the invaders and a dramatic battle
for Mexico City ends when the capital finally surrenders on September 14, 1847.
A few months later, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ceding all of the
states of the present American Southwest to the United States.
Location:
VIDEO
E184.M5
N67 1980x
Title:
North from Mexico
Publisher:
West Haven, CT. : U.S.A. Info. Serv., [198-?] (21 min.)
Summary:
Traces the history of the Mexican-American people from the time of Coronado
to the present, explores their culture, and points out the contributions made by
the Spanish. Examines the Chicano of today and his struggle to win long-denied
human rights.
LAT
AMER FEATURE FILMS NOT IN LIBRARY
House
of the Spirits (A family surviving Chilean dictatorship)
FYI
: Films from or on Latin America in SCSU Library
MEXICAN,
Latin American, & HISTORICAL FEATURE FILMS
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.B87 1984x (SLAVE REBELLION IN
CARIBBEAN-Haiti)
Title:
Burn! / Pea Produzioni Europee Associate SAS.
Publisher:
Farmington Hills, MI : Key Video, c1984 (112 min.)
Performer-Note:
Marlon Brando, Evaristo Marquez, Renato Salvatori.
Summary:
This story of political greed and social upheaval will take you on a journey
deep into the heart of darkness of a 19th century Caribbean island, where men
rise up in bitter and bloody rebellion against the wealthy nations seeking to
enslave them.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.C65623 1996x MEXICAN
FILM
Title:
El Compadre Mendoza / Aguila Films.
Publisher:
[Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 1996?] (82 min.)
Summary:
Mendoza, a landowner, tries to maintain friendships with both the leader of
the government forces and the general of the Zapatista rebels.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.D396 1992x MEXICAN FILM
Title:
Danzón / produced by Jorge Sanchez ; directed by Maria Novaro. Publisher:
Burbank, California : Columbia Tristar Home Video, [1992 (103 min
Summary:
A surprising love story about a single mother, telephone operator in Mexico
City, a woman who finally discovers the passion that has been missing from her
life in the tropical port of Veracruz. DANZON features the musical tradition
that moved from Cuba to Mexico. Deals with sexuality, gender, self-identity,
culture.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.N678 1984x
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.M3742 1993x MEXICAN
FILM
Title:
El Mariachi / Columbia Pictures; a Robert Rodriguez film.
Publisher:
Burbank, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video ; Madera, CA : Distributed by
Madera Cinevideo, 1993. (81 min.)
Summary:
All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his
great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings
only a curse--of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun,
the mariachi is playing for his life.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.F753 1993x MEXICAN FILM
– MEX FEM HIST
Frida:
naturaleza viva / Clasa Films Mundiales
[108 min]
Summary:
The story of the Latin American woman artist, political activist, and
feminist, Frida Kahlo; her work has
strongly influenced Chicana and Latina artists in U.S..
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.G835 1998x CUBAN FILM
Title:
Guantanamera / Tornasol Films ... [et al.] ; producida por Gerardo
Herrero ; direccion, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío.
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, [1998?]. (104 min.)
Summary:
In this romantic comedy, Yoyita, a world-famous diva, returns to her home
town of Guantanamo for an elegant reception and a surprise reunion with her once
beloved, Candido. Overjoyed with the rekindled memories of her first love,
Yoyita's elated heart fizzles while in Candido's embrace. Joining Yoyita's
funeral procession back to Havana are her sexy niece Gina, a former professor
blacklisted for political nonconformity, and her husband Adolfo, a tasteless
government official in charge of the funeral proceedings. As the cortege wends
westward across Cuba, its path keeps crossing that of Mariano, a gallant truck
driver who once had a crush on Gina and whose recurring presence crystallizes
her doubts about her marriage.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.L553 1994x
MEXICAN FILM
Title:
Like water for chocolate = Como agua para chocolate / Arau Films
International. Publisher: : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Madera, (105 min
Summary:
Romantic fantasy set in the early 20th century about a young couple blocked
from marrying by the demands of her cold and selfish mother. To be near his love
the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through
her cooking.
VIDEO
PN1997
.M3752x CLASSIC MEXICAN FILM (Mexico’s
“golden age”)
Title:
Maria Candelaria = Xochimilco / director, Emilio Fernandez
96
min.) : Performer-Note: Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, Alberto Galan.
Summary: Maria is an outcast in her small Mexican village because of her
late mother's immoral behavior. Shunned and outcast, forbidden to earn a living,
she lives a solitary life. Her only friends are the town priest and a peasant
whom she loves and wants to marry. Their poverty and misery are exploited by the
local farm lord and a well-to-do city artist who sees in her face the perfect
woman whom he wishes to paint. This leads everyone into tragedy.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.Q37 1985x HISTORIC
FILM on MEXICO
Title:
Que viva Mexico / Sergei Einstein's "lost" masterpiece
(85 min.)
Summary:
A video document of the history of Mexico, presented in four novellas:
Sandunga, an exposition of Tehuantepec jungles and the peaceful lifestyles of
their inhabitants; Manguei, a love story about a poor peon and his bride;
Fiesta, devoted to bullfighting and romantic love; and Soldadera, a portrayal of
the 1910 revolution in Mexico as depicted in the frescoes of Sigueiros, Rivera,
and Orosco.
Location:
VIDEO
PQ7797.H3
M36 1996x ARGENTINE
FILM
Reserve:
MAIN/RESERVE PHI 020-VI
Title:
Martin Fierro
Publisher:
Chicago, IL : Facets Multimedia, 1996. (ca. 134 min.)
Summary:
Set in the Argentine interior, this film tells the story of a man who
abandons his family to fight the Indians. He fails his test of courage, becomes
a deserter, kills a man in self-defense, and retreats to live in an Indian
villiage with his best friend.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.M4567 1990x POST-REVOL
CUBAN FILM
Title:
Memorias del subdesarrollo = memories of underdevelopment / Instituto
Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematografica
Publisher:
New York : New Yorker Video, c199?, c1968. (97 min.)
Summary:
Set in the early 1960's. A study of Cuban society before and after the
revolution as seen through the eyes of a man who is a landlord and self-styled
intellectual/writer. This was the class of people not sufficiently motivated to
leave when Castro came to power, but also did not fit into his new society.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.M58 1982x
Title:
Missing / Universal Pictures. Publisher: Universal City,
Calif. : MCA Videocassette, c1982. (122 min.)
Performer-Note:
Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek. Summary: Based on an actual event, the
story involves the search by his wife and father for a young American who has
disappeared during a South American coup [Chile in the 1970s].
Location:
DVD
PN1997
.O744 1999x
CLASSIC BRAZILIAN FILM
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.B53345 1988x
Title:
Orfeu negro = Black Orpheus / Lopert Films, Inc. ; co-production
franco-italienne, Dispatfilm, Gemma Cinematografica avec la participation de
Tupan Filmes LTDA ; un film de Marcel Camus
(107 min
Summary:
Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful
background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color
photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova
beat to the United States.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.R654 1997x
Title:
Romero / Vidmark Entertainment
(CENTRAL AMER 1980s CIVIL WARS)
(105
min) Summary: Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life
of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a
passionate stand against social injustice and the oppression in his country.
This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent
priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.S259 1986x [CENTRAL AMER 1980s
CIVIL WARS]
Title:
Salvador / produced by Gerald Green, Oliver Stone ; (123 min
Performer-Note:
James Wood, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, Elpedia Carrillo, Summary: Based
on events that occured in 1980-81 in EL Salvador, the story of an American TV
correspondent trying to get at the "truth" while at the same time
trying to save the life of his Salvadoran gilr friend.
Location:
VIDEO
PN1997
.Y6536 1990x MEXICAN FILM
– MEX FEM HISTORY
Reserve:
MAIN/RESERVE PHI 033-VI
Title:
Yo, la peor de todas = I, the worst of all / un film de Maria Luisa
Bemberg Publisher: New York, NY : First Run Features c1990. (107 min)
Summary:
This historical drama tells the story of Juana Ines de la Cruz, one of the
greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for
writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship
with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the
Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.
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