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Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1954.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Banned at the time of its initial release and made by blacklisted filmmakers, this bold, radical film tells the story of Mexican-American workers who call a strike over the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages they receive in comparison to their white co-workers at a Zinc mine in New Mexico.Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) organizes the strike but is shown to be a hypocrite, treating his pregnant wife (Rosaura Revueltas) with similar unfairness. However,...
Publisher
Galán Incorporated
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. It shows how Tijerina's fight to convince the federal government to honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) galvanized Mexicans and Mexican Americans across the Southwest. It then moves on to discuss Rodolfo (Corky) Gonzales and his founding of the Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1966. Focusing on the importance...
Publisher
Galán Incorporated
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It covers the Los Angeles high school blow outs of 1968 thoroughly and with passion. Part 3 is also likely to be the most interesting to students because they can witness young people their own age forcefully agitating for change. It is also striking because the catalysts for the walk outs--high drop out rate, crumbling schools, lack of Mexican American teachers--still resonate today. This segment is visually interesting as well because the filmmakers...
Publisher
Lourdes Portillo
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A first and thorough look at the Mexican celebration of the dead, the sacred days when the souls of the departed return to visit the living. Tracing the Days of the Dead tradition from its roots in Indian culture to its manifestations in contemporary Chicano communities, this unconventional and visually arresting documentary contemplates the loving and sometimes humorous Mexican cultural attitudes toward "that constant companion," death.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In New Mexico in the time of WWII, a young man goes to an aged medicine woman and forms a relationship which helps him challenge the fight amid the good and the evil that storms through his village.
Series
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
3 DVDs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes 35 episodes from the 1950s television series. The Cisco Kid and his trusty sidekick Pancho travel about the West coming to the aid of those in need of it. This classic western series was the first to be filmed in color, even though the majority of television sets in the country were black and white. Interestingly, the main characters were Hispanic, presented in a positive manner, during a time when most programming on television featured...
8) Cesar Chavez
Series
Publisher
Film Ideas
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (21 min., 20 sec.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chavez was a migrant farmworker who became a labor organizer for agricultural workers during the 1950s. Later Chavez became the founder of the National Farm Workers Association which fought to improve wages and working conditions for its members. In 1966, he successfully negotiated the first collective bargaining agreement for farmworkers and established the first comprehensive union health benefits for farmworkers and their families.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Standard format (4:3).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (26 min. each ; 155 min. total) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Six episodes from the television comedy "Chico and the man", featuring the odd couple pairing of grouchy garage owner Ed and his employee, the young and outspoken Chico.
10) Mosquita y Mari
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a fast-paced immigrant community where dreams are often lost to economic survival, two young Chicanas contemplate life when they stir unexpected desires in each other.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Little Lobo returns to share his love of food in this delicious new Vamos! title that's peppered with easy-to-remember Latin-American Spanish vocabulary.
Publisher
Televisa
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A thick fog surrounds California's borders, communication beyond state lines is cut off, and the Mexicans disappear: workers, spouses, and business owners are missing. Cars are abandoned in the street, food is left cooking on the stove. We meet the wife of a musician who's gone, a state Senator whose maid doesn't show up for work, and a farm owner whose produce is ripe and unpicked. A scientist asks any Mexicans who haven't disappeared to volunteer...
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