Hispanic American Heritage Month

The story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers.
A/V Collection - Main Floor PN1995 Cesarch 2014

Despite his family's generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events.
A/V Collection - Main Floor PN1995 Coco 2018

California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. As the day progresses, it becomes apparent the sole characteristic linking the missing 14 million is their Hispanic heritage.
A/V Collection - Main Floor PN1995 Adaywit 2004

Esteban works hard and eventually gets enough money to buy a hacienda and become a local patriarch. He becomes very conservative and is feared by his workers.
A/V Collection - Main Floor PN1995 Houseof 2011

Latino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have for the past 500-plus years helped shape what is today the United States.
A/V Collection - Main Floor E184.S75 L3856 2013

"Macdonald Carey plays a crusading newspaperman who seemingly is the only person willing to champion the oppressed workers' cause and tries to stop a lynch mob's manhunt of a Latino fugitive accused of fomenting a riot"--Container.
The Lawless - Main Floor PN1995 Lawless 2012

The story of a woman and her lover who, having been denied marriage, find inventive ways of sharing their love. She expresses her feelings through her cooking, and everyone around ends up participating in their passion.
On Display - Main Floor PN1995 Likewat 2011

A study of Cuban society before and after the revolution as seen through the eyes of a Europeanized intellectual, a landlord and self-styled writer, who is too idealistic to leave for Miami but too decadent to fit into the new society.
A/V Collection - Main Floor PN1995 Memorie 1968

"Based on over 700 interviews in rural Mexican towns where about half the population has left to work in the United States, [this film] asks why so many Mexicans come to the U.S. and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind." -- Container.
A/V Collection - Main Floor JV7401 .O83 2010

Lawyers seek justice for a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to prison. Based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940's Los Angeles.
Checkout Desk - Main Floor PN1995 Zootsui 2003