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Moyers & Company: Rewriting the Story of America
Item# 52822
© 2012
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-439-3
The life and work of Junot Díaz contains many worlds. His books—including National Book Award finalist This Is How You Lose Her and Pulitzer Prize winner The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—journey b...
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Moyers & Company: Hispanic America's Turn
Item# 52314
© 2012
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-847-9
By 2050, Hispanics are projected to number 132 million and represent 30 percent of the U.S. population. And as that population evolves, so does their political power; since 2008, America’s Latino voti...
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Moyers & Company: Between Two Worlds—Life on the Border
Item# 49109
© 2012
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-018-3
No writer understands the border culture between Mexico and the United States more intimately than Luis Alberto Urrea. His own life is the stuff of great novels. Son of a Mexican father and Anglo mo...
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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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Nouveau Poor: Immigrant Poverty
Item# 48032
© 2011
41 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-665-5
The “golden door” exalted at the Statue of Liberty still beckons the world’s poor. Once inside the U.S., however, most immigrants accept a lifestyle that is anything but glittering. This program revea...
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New to Our Collection! Southern Exposure: Causes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration
Item# 52323
© 2010
52 Min.
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Three years in the making, Southern Exposure tears down a curtain of lies, half-truths, and misinformation to scrutinize the many aspects of illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States. The r...
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Famous Hispanic Americans
Item# 50305
© 2010
30 Min.
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This timely program examines the contributions of Hispanic Americans: as newsmakers, in the movies, hitting home runs, and inventing new cures for diseases. They truly are from here and there and ever...
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Famous Hispanic Americans (Spanish)
Item# 50306
© 2010
30 Min.
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This timely program examines the contributions of Hispanic Americans: as newsmakers, in the movies, hitting home runs, and inventing new cures for diseases. They truly are from here and there and ever...
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Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program
Item# 43712
© 2010
58 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61733-550-1
Shedding light on the current debate over immigration reform and the use of “guest workers” in American agriculture, this historical documentary examines what was known as the Bracero Program—a system...
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Latin Music U.S.A.
Item# 44300
© 2009
240 Min.
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Latin music today has deeper roots and broader reach than most people realize, owing to fusions of Latin sounds with jazz, rock, country, and rhythm & blues. This four-part documentary invites vie...
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