Selected Latino Videos in Parks Library
compiled by Susan A. Vega García

Mexican / Mexican American  Puerto Rican  Cuban American Other Latino Groups   General / Pan-Latino

 

Mexican & Mexican American 

Adelante mujeres VIDE 002 524
Keywords: women, history

And the earth did not swallow him VIDE 002 639
Keywords: literature, children, migrant workers

Ballad of Gregorio Cortez VIDE 003 192
Keywords: music (corridos), biography

La Bamba VIDE 002 526
Keywords: music (rock and roll), biography

Barry López (author reads from his work, and is interviewed) VIDE 003 410
Keywords: literature, biography

Border brujo (over the top bilingual performance art from Guillermo Gómez Peña; not for the bilingual faint-hearted!) VIDE 002 557
Keywords: art (satire, performance), immigration, culture

Bowl of Beings VIDE 002 298
Keywords: comedy

Chiapas: The Inside Story (alternate title: Chiapas: Landscape after Battle) (Currently in process, 6/01)
Keywords: Indians, civil rights, land tenure

Chicana VIDE 002 801
Keywords: women

¡Chicano! The history of the Mexican American civil rights movement (4-part series) VIDE 002 408
Keywords: history, civil rights, culture

Chicano Park VIDE 003 086

Chulas fronteras / Al mero corazón (Texas border music) VIDE 002 518
Keywords: music (Texas border music), biography

Day of the Dead (Currently in process, 6/01)
Keywords: Indians, cultural traditions, religion

A Day without a Mexican: a mockumentary VIDE 003 462 
Keywords:  immigration, labor, race relations

The Desert is no lady VIDE 002 525
Keywords: women

Fear and learning at Hoover elementary VIDE 002 738
Keywords: education, immigration, children

Fight in the fields: César Chávez and the farmworkers' struggle VIDE 002 640
Keywords: history, civil rights, migrant workers, biography

Gary Soto (author / poet reads from his works, and is interviewed) VIDE 003 424
Keywords: literature, biography

How else am I supposed to know I'm alive VIDE 002 724

Huichols & Pesticides VIDE 003 478
Keywords: Indians, migrant workers, civil rights

Hunt for Pancho Villa: The American Experience VIDE 003 252
Keywords: history, biography

Images of Mexican Los Angeles (Documents the Mexican presence in Los Angeles and California, 1781-present) VIDE 003
355
Keywords: history

In the Shadow of the Law (highlights the problems of Mexican undocumented immigrants) VIDE 003 055
Keywords: immigration

Invisible Indians: Mixtec Farmworkers in California (Currently in process, 6/01)
Keywords: Indians, migrant workers, civil rights

Lacandona: The Zapatistas & the rainforest of Chiapas (Currently in process, 6/01)
Keywords: Indians, civil rights, land tenure

Lemon Grove Incident VIDE 003 087

Lorna Dee Cervantes & Shirley Geok-lin Lim VIDE 003 103
Keywords: literature, biography

El mariachi VIDE 002 541
Keywords: music, comedy

Mi vida loca - My crazy life VIDE 003 311

Milagro beanfield war VIDE 002 300
Keywords: comedy

La ofrenda: The Days of the Dead (explores the Indian traditions behind the Mexican and Mexican American celebration of the Days of the Dead) VIDE 002 554
Keywords: Indians, cultural traditions, religion

Requiem 29 (1970 Chicano moratorium) VIDE 002 723

Richard Rodriguez: victim of two cultures VIDE 002 167

Salt of the earth VIDE 002 713
Keywords: history

Los San Patricios (defection of 500 Irish American soldiers from the US Army to the Mexican forces, during the US-Mexican war of 1846) VIDE 003 333
Keywords: history

Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas (Currently on order, 3/01)
Keywords: Indians, civil rights, land tenure

Songs of the homeland: History of Tejano music VIDE 003 104
Keywords: music, history

Ties that bind: immigration stories (U.S. immigration policy & the Texas-Mexico border region) VIDE 003 230
Keywords: immigration

U.S. - Mexican War (2 part series) VIDE 002 931
Keywords: history

Viva la causa: 500 years of Chicano history VIDE 002 555
Keywords: history

Yo soy chicano VIDE 002 616

Zapatista Women / Las compañeras tienen grado (Documentary on "... indigenous women in the Zapatista guerrilla forces")
VIDE 003 485
Keywords: Indians, women, civil rights, land tenure

Zoot suit VIDE 002 617
Keywords: history

Puerto Rican

Al compás de un sentimiento: la música de Pedro Flores VIDE 002 546
Keywords: music, biography

Battle of Vieques (US Navy occupation of the Puerto Rican island, Vieques) VIDE 003 356
Keywords: land tenure, military occupation

Brincando el charco: portrait of a Puerto Rican VIDE 002 791
Keywords: women, 

Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War VIDE 003 267
Keywords:

Culebra: el comienzo (US Navy occupation of the Puerto Rican island, Culebra) VIDE 003 341
Keywords: land tenure

Dios los cría (Jacobo Morales classic) VIDE 002 764
Keywords: feature film

La Guagua aérea VIDE 003 107
Keywords: literature, feature film

Héroes de otra patria (documents the participation of over 48,000 Puerto Rican soldiers in the Vietnam War) VIDE 003 334
Keywords: history

Huellas (10 programs about Puerto Rican regions, history, flora, and fauna, hosted by singer Tony Croatto) VIDE 002 869
Keywords: music, history, culture

Imágenes de Puerto Rico VIDE 003 105

El legado: A Puerto Rican Legacy (History of the Puerto Rican community in New York City) VIDE 003 332
Keywords: history

Life and poetry of Julia de Burgos VIDE 002 614
Keywords: literature, women

Linda Sara VIDE 003 106
Keywords: feature film

Lo que pasó a Santiago (Jacobo Morales classic) VIDE 002 766
Keywords: feature film

Luis Muñoz Marín: un hombre, un pueblo, un propósito VIDE 002 870
Keywords: history, biography

Luisa Capetillo: a passion for justice VIDE 003 382
Keywords: history, biography

Manos a la obra: the story of Operation Bootstrap VIDE 002 538
Keywords: history

Mi Puerto Rico VIDE 002 544
Keywords:  culture, history

The Nationalists VIDE 002 615
Keywords: history

Nicolás y los demás (Jacobo Morales classic) VIDE 002 765
Keywords: feature film

Nuyorican Dream (Currently in process, 6/01)

La operación (mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women) VIDE 002 164
Keywords: women, civil rights, birth control

Pa'lante, siempre pa'lante (documentary on Young Lords) VIDE 002 299
Keywords: history, New York City, youth movements, civil rights

Plena is work, plena is song VIDE 002 539
Keywords: music, history

Un pueblo que canta VIDE 002 545
Keywords: music, holiday entertainment

Puerto Rico, Paradise Invaded (examines Commonwealth status, exile & life in New York City, & the Puerto Rican Independence movement) VIDE 003 354
Keywords: history, politics, nationalism

Rafael Hernández, jibarito del mundo VIDE 002 843
Keywords: music, biography

Santiago (Loíza Aldea patron saint festival) VIDE 002 869
Keywords: African heritage, cultural traditions, religion

Ser puertorriqueño: testimonios de nuestra conciencia VIDE 003 108

¿Sí o no? Puerto Rico & the Statehood Question VIDE 003 335

Victor Hernández Cruz (poet reads from his work, and is interviewed) VIDE 003 451
Keywords: literature, biography

Cuban American

¿Adiós, patria? The Cuban Exodus (Mariel boatlift & Cuban refugee experience) VIDE 003 312
Keywords:  immigration & emigration, exile

Ana Mendieta: fuego de tierra (documentary on late Cuban American artist who came to the US as an unaccompanied child as part of Operation Pedro Pan, and placed in an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa) VIDE 002 326
Keywords:  art and artists, exile, immigration & emigration, Operation Peter Pan, Latinos in Iowa

Bay of Pigs VIDE 003 277

Café con leche VIDE 003 325

Changing Tides (Documentary on Cuban balseros in 1994) (Currently on order, 3/01)

Crossing borders: a Cuban returns VIDE 003 387

Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War VIDE 003 267

¡Cuba va! The challenge of the next generation VIDE 002 370

Del otro lado del cristal (Documentary on Operación Pedro Pan, which facilitated the emigration of hundreds of unaccompanied
Cuban children from Cuba to the U.S. after the Cuban revolution) VIDE 003 389
Keywords:  exile, immigration & emigration, Operation Peter Pan

The Flight of Pedro Pan (Documentary on the mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to the U.S. after the
Cuban revolution; many of the children were relocated to orphanages and foster homes throughout the U.S.) VIDE 003 327
Keywords:  exile, immigration & emigration, Operation Peter Pan

Havana: Portrait of Yesteryear (Narrated by Gloria Estefan) VIDE 003 326
Keywords:  Cuba, exile, nostalgia, history

Last revolutionary (Fidel Castro) VIDE 002 441

Lejanía (classic film examines Cuban-Cuban American relations in one family) VIDE 002 812

Mauvaise conduite / Improper conduct VIDE 002 224

Memorias del subdesarrollo (Classic Cuban film examines the 1959 Cuban exodus to the United States) VIDE 002 809

Miami-Havana VIDE 002 254

Roots of Rhythm (3-part series; African diaspora music in the Caribbean, esp. Cuba; hosted by Harry Belafonte) VIDE 002 947

El Super (Cuban American classic!!) VIDE 002 798

Voices of the Orishas (Afrocuban beliefs and santería) VIDE 002 203

Other Latinos & Latin Americans

Arepa colombiana en Nueva York (Life of an undocumented Colombian street vendor in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY) VIDE 003 329
Keywords:  emigration & immigration, New York City, Colombians

Celebrando a Colombia (NY video celebrates Colombian culture and traditions) VIDE 003 336
Keywords:  Colombia, culture, history

The Devil's Dream (Documentary on "... the economic and political oppression of Mayan peasants who are exploited by wealthy landowners and brutally repressed by the military in Guatemala") (Currently on order, 3/01)

Fear and learning at Hoover elementary VIDE 002 738
Keywords: bilingual education, California, immigration & emigration, children, Salvadorans, Central Americans,  Mexican Americans

Forging Peace in Guatemala (Documentary of 3 contemporary Mayan women & the Guatemalan civil war) VIDE 003 492

Guatemala: Roads of Silence (Documentary "... examines the plight of Guatemalan Indian peasants victimized by the government's counterinsurgency program which has led many Guatemalans to go into exile or to become internal refugees inside the country.") (Currently on order, 3/01)

Home is struggle: historias paralelas (Interviews with Nicaraguan, Chilean, Argentine, and Domincan women immigrants to the U.S.) VIDE 003 207

Last of the Karaphuna (Explores ancient and contemporary Carib Indian life) VIDE 003 383

Making Waves (Documentary on popular video in Bolivia, including ".... the only Quechua language news and cultural program shown on Bolivian TV") VIDE 003 476

Mambo Mouth VIDE 002 527 (John Leguizamo comedy; monologues & satires of Latino stereotypes - not for the faint-hearted!)
Keywords:  comedy, satire, improvisational sketches

Mayan voices: American lives VIDE 003 268

Nueba Yol (Dominicans in New York) VIDE 002 721
Keywords:  feature film, comedy, New York City, emigration &immigration, Dominicans

Nueba Yol III: bajo la ley / under the new law (Comedy of a Dominican undocumented immigrant in New York, who struggles with immigration law, the INS, and a green card wedding) VIDE 003 330
Keywords:  feature film, comedy, New York City, emigration &immigration, Dominicans

Palenque: un canto (African heritage of Colombia) VIDE 002 469
Keywords:  Colombia, history, Afro-Colombians, Africa

Refugees in our backyard (Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Nicaraguan refugees in the U.S.) VIDE 003 287
Keywords:  Central Americans, emigration & immigration

Spirits of the jaguar (Explores pre-Columbian Mayan, Aztec, and Taino cultures) VIDE 003 361

Transnational fiesta (Peruvian Andean immigrants in Washington, D.C., and Peruvian customs & traditions) VIDE 002 199

We are Kuna / Am Tulemarbi VIDE 003 488

West Side Story (classic stereotypes of Puerto Ricans in Hollywood cinema - beyond Rita Moreno, there is nothing Puerto Rican about this movie) VIDE 001 206
Keywords:  feature film, Hollywood, depiction of Latinos in the media

Woman of courage / Qamasan warmi (Bolivian fiction film "... based on Gregoria Apaza's story [of] an indigenous woman hero linked to Andrés Tupac Amaru's circle of relatives who participated in the uprising against the Spanish conquerors in 1781"] VIDE 003 487

General & Pan-Latino

American Me VIDE 003 310

Arturo Madrid: challenging Hispanic stereotypes VIDE 002 169

The Buried Mirror (5-part series; Mexican author Carlos Fuentes narrates the history of Spaniards in the Americas and the creation of mestizo and mulato New World cultures) VIDE 001 812

Crazy from the heart VIDE 003 215

Crossover dreams VIDE 003 286

Hispanic Americans: the second generation VIDE 003 060

Hispanic education at the crossroads VIDE 003 057

Hispanic entrepreneurs: against all odds VIDE 003 228

Hispanics in the media VIDE 003 059

Hispanics: their differences, myth or fact VIDE 003 056

Hispanics: the changing role of women VIDE 003 058

Hispanic Magazine's guide to Hispanic excellence VIDE 002 782

Latin & African Americans: friends or foes? VIDE 003 227

Latin American & Caribbean presence in the United States (part 10 of video series entitled Americas, a 10-part video series by WGBH) VIDE 001 689, video #10

Latino artists: pushing artistic boundaries VIDE 002 461

Latino Hollywood VIDE 002 786

Latinos: the life of the spirit VIDE 002 482

Mi familia / My Family VIDE 002 575

New Faces on Main Street (Southeast Asian and Latino immigrants in Wisconsin and the Midwest) VIDE 002 902

Spanish-speakers & bilingualism VIDE 001 771

Status of Latina Women VIDE 001 770

Women of hope: latinas abriendo camino VIDE 002 470