Tag: hispanic experience
Farmingville
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, P.O.V. presents FARMINGVILLE, a provocative, complex, and emotionally charged look into the ongoing nationwide controversy surrounding a suburban community, its ever-expanding population of illegal [...]
When the Mountains Tremble
The film that shook audiences and critics alike upon its original theatrical release, this revolutionary tour-de-force and Sundance Film Festival winner is now available for the first time on DVD. Digitally remastered to commemorate its [...]
Pictures From a Revolution
In this lively, intellectually stimulating discourse on the power of images, renowned photojournalist Susan Meiselas returns to the scenes of a revolution she witnessed and captured with her camera of war-torn Nicaragua in the late 70s and 80s
The Panama Deception
A riveting Academy Award-winning documentary, made all the more timely by recent U.S. invasions and the current “war on terror,” THE PANAMA DECEPTION documents the untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, [...]
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba
The indisputable founding father of “bebop,” Dizzy Gillespie remains one of the most recognizable and popular figures in jazz history. During his heyday in the 1940s, Dizzy was one of the first American jazz musicians [...]
The Hobart Shakespeareans
THE HOBART SHAKESPEAREANS is a delightful profile of one phenomenal teacher and his eager students who together touchingly demonstrate the power of education. What happens in Rafe Esquith’s classroom defies the odds. With genuine passion [...]
Colors Straight Up
Vibrantly engrossing and powerful, Academy Award® nominee COLORS STRAIGHT UP offers a wholly inspiring and penetrating look at the lives of inner-city children who are beating the odds through music, acting and dancing. An in-depth [...]