Dolores Huerta
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Female
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Miss Representation
Overview: The film MISS REPRESENTATION exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. It’s time to break that cycle of mistruths.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-20
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The Latino List: Volume 2
Overview: Documentary film interviews leading Latinos on race, identity, and achievement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Overview: Song for Cesar is a documentary film with a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement. The film tells a previously untold story about the musicians and artists who dedicated their time, creativity and even reputations to peacefully advance Cesar Chavez's movement to gain equality and justice for America's suffering farmworkers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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Chicana
Overview: CHICANA traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women's role in Aztec society, their participation in the 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, their involvement in the US labor strikes in 1872, their contributions to the 1910 Mexican revolution and their leadership in contemporary civil rights causes. Using murals, engravings and historical footage, CHICANA shows how women, despite their poverty, have become an active and vocal part of the political and work life in both Mexico and the United States.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-14
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Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire
Overview: Mixing archival footage with interviews, this film celebrates one of Los Angeles's most influential painters and Chicano art activists from the 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-01
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The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement
Overview: The Delano Manongs tells the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the American farm labor movement’s finest hours – The Delano Grape Strike of 1965 that brought about the creation of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). While the movement is known for Cesar Chavez’s leadership and considered a Chicano movement, Filipinos played a pivotal role. Filipino labor organizer, Larry Itliong, a cigar-chomping union veteran, organized a group of 1500 Filipinos to strike against the grape growers of Delano, California, beginning a collaboration between Filipinos, Chicanos and other ethnic workers that would go on for years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-10
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Beauty Bites Beast
Overview: Beauty Bites Beast aims to 'normalize' the idea of women's self-defense - and by extension, kids' self-defense - as a human need and right.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-01
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Eat the Rainbow
Overview: A musical fable about an odd yet kind man named Bayani who moves into a conservative suburban neighborhood and disrupts the otherwise comfortable homogeny. He doesn't look or act like anyone else which causes fear and panic and eventually a demand for him to leave the neighborhood. Cousin Wonderlette befriends Bayani and together they take on the opposition led by manipulative and unscrupulous realtor Lobelia Gerber.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-13
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Yo Soy Chicano
Overview: Portrays the Chicano experience, from its roots in pre-Columbian history to the present, by dramatically recreating key events in Mexican history and by presenting interviews with Chicano leaders, Dolores Huerta, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Rodolfo Gonzalez, and Jose Angel Gutierrez, who discuss solutions to the oppression of Chicanos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-14
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