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Latino History
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Voices from Mariel: Los Marielitos, Then and Now
Item# 48976
© 2011
80 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-978-6
In 1980, five people in need of political asylum crashed a bus through the gates of the Peruvian embassy in Havana, where they were quickly joined by more than 10,000 additional asylum seekers. Fearin...
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Montezuma: Twilight God of the Aztecs
Item# 41708
© 2009
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61616-866-7
As the last great Aztec ruler, Montezuma II inherited a sprawling yet fragile empire. This program studies his governance, its abrupt end at the hands of the conquistadors, and its historical meanings...
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A Class Apart
Item# 40874
© 2009
60 Min.
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In the 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, defense lawyers forged a daring strategy—one arguing that Mexican-Americans did not fit into a legal structure which recognized only white and black racial c...
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Last Days of the Maya
Item# 40781
© 2005
51 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-484-3
Sixteen skeletons—what is left of a 9th-century Mayan royal family—are discovered in the ancient city of Cancuén. Can their remains tell us anything about the collapse of the Mayan Empire? Did disease...
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Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War
Item# 40946
© 1999
120 Min.
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Filmed a century after the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, this program narrated by Edward James Olmos examines the events and attitudes that led to the Spanish-American War, followed by an...
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El Camino Real
Item# 5198
© 1991
20 Min.
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The royal road, the trail followed by Juan de Onate in 1598 when he led his troop of Spaniards up from Mexico in search of gold and glory... Used by conquistadors, native peoples, settlers, armies, me...
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