The Big Squeeze is a joyful leap into the heart of Texas music, from the urban barrios of Houston, to the colonias of the Rio Grande Valley, we find young musicians carrying on a passionate musical legacy fueled by family, friends, and food. The film follows them as they battle at the annual accordion throwdown.
The [...]
After a childhood of playing cantinas and honky tonks, Los Lonely Boys blazed onto the music scene with a 2004 self-titled debut release that went multi-platinum and a 2005 Grammy win for their hit single, “Heaven”. The Garza brothers- Henry, Jojo, and Ringo- have a unique signature sound they call “Texican”. Los Lonely Boys Cottonfields [...]
The award winning VISIONES:LATINO ART & CULTURE is a journey through the music, words, dance, painting and performance of rich Latino cultures made more complex and fascinating by their history in our country.
I Love My Freedom, I Love My Texas; On the Road with Mingo Saldivar Y Los Cuatro Espadas
An electrifying performance documentary featuring Mingo Saldivar - one of conjunto’s most admired and popular accordion masters.
* The story behind the holiday.
* First-person accounts shed light on one of the most pivotal moments in the history of the Americas.
In some ways, it is a companion story to the Alamo. But on May 5th, 1862, it was the Mexican forces who were besieged, and they engineered a stunning victory rather than [...]
Accordion Dreams, the much anticipated follow up to Hector Galán’s Songs of the Homeland.
An an hour-long documentary special funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The program captures a day in the life of America’s poorest people along the Texas border.
Six independently produced segments examine contemporary
life along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tribute to Selena on one year anniversary of her death.
Covers the Chicano movement from 1965 to 1975.
Features the Chicano land struggle, Cesar Chavez and the UFW,
Los Angeles High School walk-outs and the creation of La Raza
Unida third political party.
The history of the Texas Mexican experience as told through the development of Tejano music.
Examines the issues revolving around the heated debate on illegal immigration in the state of California.
The story relates the significance behind Pancho Villa’s attack on Columbus, New Mexico, and General John J. Pershing’s subsequent failure to capture him.
Introduction to the role of women in the ranching culture of South Texas from 1750 to the present, exploring the sources of these roles in Mexican and Spanish cultures.
Examines the history of Latino voting patterns, as well as the potential impact of the growing Latino electorate on the 1992 presidential election.
Looks at the children who are damaged and “lost” inside Arkansas’ troubled foster care system and the political battle between children’s advocates and Governor Bill Clinton just as he launches his Presidential campaign.
Examines the dynamics of race through the military’s Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute as the students confront each other with their racial anger and frustration.
The story of Mexican-American copper miners whose labor battles from 1903 to 1946 shaped the course of Arizona history.
Profiles Latinas with AIDS, their struggles with the disease and coping with their families and society.
Reveals how and why farmworkers remain the worst treated workers in America thirty years after Edward R. Murrow’s documentary, Harvest Of Shame, exposed the farmworkers’ lives.
Profiles a community held hostage by crack and those who are fighting back.
Looks at the changes at the Penitentiary Of New Mexico eight years after one of the bloodiest riots in American penal history.
Documents the dying traditions of Mexican-American cowboys in South Texas.
A harrowing look at the lives of those who seek treatment for drug addiction.
Takes an in-depth look at the country’s complex political system.
Focuses on the growing Hispanic political and economic power in America.
Features the life and works of a Mexican-American mask maker.
Traces the path of an exile’s return visit to Cuba after twenty years.
Looks at college athletics versus academics.
A journey on the new underground railroad which probes the church’s involvement in the sanctuary movement.
A look at the other Washington and examines the evolution of black political power in America.
Looks at the survival of the traditional Pueblo Indian culture through the eyes of the Pueblo Indian cross-country runners of New Mexico. This award winning documentary follows four Pueblo championship cross-country runners exploring cultural values associated with running and the complexity of carrying forward the tradition in contemporary Pueblo society.
A national 26-part weekly documentary newsmagazine covering 70 stories dealing with social issues, celebrities, sports and performance.
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