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No One (De Nadie)
The impoverished Central Americans who leave their countries in hopes of a better life in the United States have a rough road ahead of them. De Nadie shows how, during their perilous 2500-mile ...

The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers
"The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers" is an in-depth photojournalistic portrait with bi-lingual text which details the lives and struggles of today's California ...
Released2003

Two Worlds Touch
When the Spanish arrived in southern Mexico, the Lancandones, direct descendants of the classical Mayas, fled to the safety and isolation of the rain forest. Now numbering fewer than 500, the ...

To the Roots
To The Roots depicts the journey of two Itza Maya elders from their village in Peten in northern Guatemala to meet, for the first time, their Lacandon Maya relatives deep in the rain forest of ...
Released1999

Tlalnepantla: The Price of Democracy
In January of 2004, the Zapatistas of Chiapas celebrated the 10th anniversary of their uprising. However, a thousand miles away in Emiliano Zapata's home state of Morelos, a more darker chapter ...
Released2004

Those Who Trespass
Four edlerly nuns feel so strongly about closing the School of the Americas -- where the U.S. has trained Latin American soldiers in combat and counter-insurgency since 1946 -- that they put their ...
Released2002

The Trail North
Follows anthropologist Robert Alvarez and his 10 year old son Luis as they recreate the journey which their family's ancestors made in coming north from Mexico several generations ...
Released1983

The New Tijuana
Profile of Tijuana, Mexico, now the West Coast's second largest city after Los Angeles. As this booming border town struggles between its heritage as a Third World city with a sordid past, and ...
Released1990

The Miami Model
In November, 2003, trade ministers from 34 countries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA threatens to devastate workers, the environment, and ...
Released2004

The Long Road Home
This documentary follows a 19-year-old Mayan refugee from his home in Chicago to a Guatemalan refugee camp in Mexico. The viewer learns why Ricardo Hernandez and his family had to leave Guatemala, ...

The Last Journey for the Leatherback?
The Last Journey for the Leatherback? documents the incredible life of the leatherbacks--the largest species of sea turtle which can dive as deep as the whales and migrate across entire ocean basins. ...
Released2004

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