Mexican American Movies

  • 2014
    Las Marthas

    Las Marthas

    Las Marthas

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    Marthas is a PBS documentary about an extraordinary rite of passage in Laredo, Texas where teenage Mexican-American girls debut in a grand Colonial...

    Las Marthas
  • 1999
    Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena

    Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena

    Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena

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    CORPUS explores the mass adulation and explosive posthumous recognition of Selena Quintanilla, the Tejano rock singer murdered by the president of...

    Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena
  • 2020
    Rudy Hernandez: Congressional Medal of Honor

    Rudy Hernandez: Congressional Medal of Honor

    Rudy Hernandez: Congressional Medal of Honor

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    Mexican American Rodolfo P. Hernandez faced death along the 38th parallel, earning a Congressional Medal of Honor for valor during the Korean War. A...

    Rudy Hernandez: Congressional Medal of Honor
  • 2011
    Sold

    Sold

    Sold

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    Told through the eyes of a young journalist named Maya, who has inadvertently gotten captured into a human trafficking ring while doing an...

    Sold
  • 2020
    Assimilation Memories

    Assimilation Memories

    Assimilation Memories

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    90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

    Assimilation Memories
  • 2020
    Lily

    Lily

    Lily

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    Lily, a little girl, prepares a party for her father while she is in the care of her cousin Teo, who completes her idea of family.

    Lily
  • 2017
    Chicano チカーノ

    Chicano チカーノ

    Chicano チカーノ

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    Chicano is an exploration between the similarities and differences between Chicano culture in America and Japan, and how the scene is not all about...

    Chicano チカーノ
  • 2013
    Stolen Education

    Stolen Education

    Stolen Education

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    "Stolen Education" documents the untold story of Mexican-American school children who challenged discrimination in Texas schools in the 1950s and...

    Stolen Education
  • 2019
    Foreign Puzzle

    Foreign Puzzle

    Foreign Puzzle

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    Foreign Puzzle is an intimate documentary that captures the journey of an inspiring Mexican American dancer as she communicates the impermanence of...

    Foreign Puzzle
  • 2010
    The Longoria Affair

    The Longoria Affair

    The Longoria Affair

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    The Longoria Affair is about a controversy that arose when the body of a dead soldier from WWII was finally identified in 1949.

    The Longoria Affair
  • 1969
    I Am Joaquin

    I Am Joaquin

    I Am Joaquin

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    Experimental film woven around a poem about Chicano culture in the U.S. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

    I Am Joaquin
  • 2023
    Los Ayeres de Hoy

    Los Ayeres de Hoy

    Los Ayeres de Hoy

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    When a failing high school student is asked to go to his professor's office hours, he ends up traveling back in time to experience all the hardships...

    Los Ayeres de Hoy
  • 2022
    Honeybee

    Honeybee

    Honeybee

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    An undocumented immigrant receives a heartwarming yet heartbreaking phone call from his daughter across the border.

    Honeybee
  • 1970
    The Lemon Grove Incident

    The Lemon Grove Incident

    The Lemon Grove Incident

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    On Jan. 5, 1931, Mexican-American students were barred from attending their local elementary school. The parents took the school district to court.

    The Lemon Grove Incident