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Hispanic American History and Issues

  • Adonde Van Nuestros Hijos
    Madera Cinevideo
    94 minutes
    Summary: When Martin starts to destroy his family as a result of problems in his job, Rosa must struggle desperately to save her family from disaster-her children, who suffer with their parents' problems, are ready to leave their home. A real life drama, that explores the misunderstandings between the different generations, and the trouble a mother goes through in order to keep the family unity.
  • Arriba Las Mujeres
    Madera Cinevideo
    83 minutes
    Summary: A woman, along with her daughters, create a feminist union to rebel against men. Her hatred for men is also directed towards her own husband, so the unfortunate man has no alternative but to unite with other deprived husbands to teach his wife and daughters a lesson.
  • Asi Era Pancho Villa
    Madera Cinevideo
    90 minutes
  • Asi es mi Mexico
    Madera Cinevideo
    90 minutes
    Summary: Toda la belleza del Mexico eterno, sirve de Marco incomparable a la accion llena de aventuras de esta gran pelicula humana y divertida, que usted no puede dejar de ver, para comprobar que Mexico vive, canta y trabaja, enfrentando sus problemas...y triunfa.
  • Ay Jalisco no te Rajes!
    Madera Cinevideo
    90 minutes
    Summary: Un torrente de pasiones, una catarata de risas y un tropel de peligrosas aventuras en el Mexicanisimo jalisco, en la mefor pelicula del idolo: Jorge negrete.
  • Joan Baez (Mexican American Folksinger)
    Hispanic and Latin American Heritage--Video Collection
    30 minutes
  • La Bandida
    Madera Cinevideo
    90 minutes
    Summary: La mas Emocionante y espectacular pelicula del cine Mexicano, con el.
  • Simon Bolivar (Latin American Revolutionary)
    Hispanic and Latin American Heritage--Video Collection
    30 minutes
  • Canasta De Cuentos Mexicanos Madera Cinevideo
    Summary: "The Tigresa," was an Amazonian expert, always ready to race and compete with whomever was willing to challenge her. Because of her extraordinary beauty and fortune, she was coveted by the young adults of the town, she contradicted the world and she had reason to do so, until she found the man who broke her in.
  • Cantinflas: Abajo El Telon
    Madera Cinevideo
    106 minutes
  • Cantinflas: Aguila Sol
    Madera Cinevideo
    90 minutes
  • Cantinflas: Ahi Esta el Detalle
    Mandera Cinevideo
    105 minutes
    Summary: Las comicas averturas de un vago muy aprovechado Ilamado Cantinflas. Este vago, al aparentar ser haermano de una senora muy distinguida, pasa de ser el novio de la sirvienta a convertirse en el amo y senor de la casa.
  • Cantinflas: El Analfabeto
    Madera Cinevideo
    Summary: Disfrute de su artista favorito "Cantinflas", en una de sus muchas comedias. En donde el su casa con la shispa y el buen ambiente de "Cantinflas".
  • Cantinflas: Asi es me Tierra
    Madera Cinevideo
    105 minutes
    Summary: Estupenda comedia ranchera en la que Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" forma pareja con Manuel Medel para dar apoyo comico a una intriga en la que un general revolucionario regresa a su pueblo y dificulta las relaciones amorosas entre una joven pareja campriana.
  • Cantinflas: El Bombero Atomico
    Madera Cinevideo
    105 minutes
    Summary: Cantinflas es ahora un superbombero, todo heroe de la pantalla que salva a una pequenita en terrible incendio. La mas comica actuacion entre flamas y humo de este bombero atomico. Baliente y simpatico descubre el lado humano de sus mobles sentimientos...No se pierda esta pelicula...Se quemara de risa!
  • Cantinflas: Caballero a la Medida
    Madera Cinevideo
    105 minutes
    Summary: "Cantinflas" trabaja con un sastre muy reconocido en la sociedad. Haciendo uso je trajes a la medida, camina por las calles anunciando la sastreria "Ortiz" y a la vez disfrutando de los trajes como si fueran propios. Mientras la gerte descubre de que se trat de un truco, todos piensan que Cantinflas es un caballero de la "high", pero no, es un " Caballero a la Medida".
  • Cantinflas: El Extra
    Madera Cinevideo
    105 minutes
    Summary: Esta vez encontramos a Cantinflas trabajando como extra en un estudio de cine, pero no sin su acostumbrada dosis de buen humor y errores, que mas bien son horroes. Venga a ver como Cantinflas, quien es contratado para un pequeno papel como extra en uan pelicula, casi destruye completamente el estudio de cine y como se roba la atencion de las camaras o mas bien sin atencion se roba las camaras. Al fin de la pelicula usted, el director y todos los actores anfaran en busca de el culpable de todas las calamidades que ocurren en el estudio.
  • Cantinflas: El Gendarme Desconocido
    Madera Cinevideo
    105 minutes
    Summary: Cantinflas es un vago simpatico y vivdor que por una confusion atrapa a tres peligrosos asaltantes. Convertido en heroe lo designan agente especial y ayuda a la policia a resolver el lio del robo de una famosa joya. A punto de caer en una trampa amorosa, descubre todo...Este es el famoso agente 777?
  • Cantinflas: El Gran Hotel
    Madera Cinevideo
    100 minutes
  • Cantinflas: El Portero
    Madera Cinevideo
    120 minutes
  • Cantinflas: A Volar Joven
    Madera Cinevideo
    105 minutes
  • Las Cenizas Del Diputado
    Madera Cinevideo
    95 minutes
    Summary: Piporrro in his quest for political power, steals votes, proposes marriage to the opposition and even fakes his death in The Deputy's Ashes.
  • Cesar Chavez (Mexican American Labor Leader)
    Hispanic and Latin American Heritage--Video Collection
    30 minutes
  • Roberto Clemente (Puerto Rican Baseball Great)
    Hispanic and Latin American Heritage--Video Collection
    30 minutes
  • Como Hay Gente Sinverguenza
    Madera Cinnevideo
    Summary: The most amusing entanglement with the most sensational couple, Silvia Pinal and Enrique Guzman. From the files, we present you the "Sinverguenzas." And watch out! Take care of yourself. Because you should see how many "Shameless" people are there.
  • El Corsario Negro
    Madera Cinevideo
    84 minutes
    Summary: Love, action and adventure go hand in hand in this film of pirates, treachery, double identity and bengeance, starring the legendary Pedro Armendariz and the beautiful Maria Luisa Zea.
  • Hernan Cortes (Spanish Explorer)
    Hispanic and Latin American Heritage--Video Collection
    30 minutes
  • Cronica Del Alba
    Madera Cinevideo
    82 minutes
    Summary: Set during the year which the anarquist rebellion takes place in Zaragoza, Jose Garces now 15 years old, is discovering life's pleasures and disappointments. Caught between his bourgeois origins and his revolutionary ideals, between his love for Valentina and his attraction for Isabelita, Jose Garces pulsates with adolescent passion and political idealism. Years later, "Pepe" leaves the security of Zaragoza to greet that future which lay just ahead for all Spaniards who loved freedom and were willing to sacrifice their innocence, youth and very existence to make their dreams a reality for their fellow countrymen.
  • Cuando Viva Villa es La Muerta
    Madera Cinevideo
    90 minutes
  • La Cucaracha
    Madera Cinevideo
    90 minutes
    Summary: La pelicula de la Revolucion Mexicana, presentada por su productor y propietario. No Adquiera Versiones Piratas. Disfrute este grandioso film sin cortes y con su inmerjorable calidad original, garantizando por Peliculas Rodriguez.
  • Cuesta Abajo
    Madera Cinevideo
    65 minutes
    Summary: A student runs away to Europe with a woman. It doesn't take him long to discover that she frequently deceives him and spends his money carelessly. Even then, he can't seem to leave her; something stronger and stranger than love keeps them together. An excellent example of the musical melodrama of the thirties.
  • Esa Mi Raza
    Madera Cinevideo
    Summary: A Municipal president commits treachery, corruption and abuse. Escaping he leaves the town deserted to it's own luck, destiny brings his unknown twin brother to the government. With his nobleness, generosity and modesty he innocently resolves all the problems, involved in many situations of the towns people.
  • La Escondida
    Madera Cinevideo
    Summary: The oppression and tyranny urged the Mexican town, the subjection becomes more evident in the large estates, farms and small towns in which they can't figure out the reason for the rights of men. The stoical group of laborers would submissively bite their disgrace in silence, meanwhile the lashing accumulates for the turbulent and confused era. The history of a love that was swept away by a whirlwind of the revolution.
  • Ferdinand & Isabella (Spanish Monarchs)
    Hispanic and Latin American Heritage--Video Collection
    30 minutes
  • La Feria De Las Flores
    Madera Cinevideo
    Summary: Enjoy the Adventures of Valente Valentine, a valiant hero accompanied by his loyal friends who combine their singing talent with a strong fighting spirit to steal the rich people's money and the poor people's hearts.
  • La Fiaca
    Madera Cinevideo
    95 minutes
    Summary: A model employee suddenly rebels: he decides not to go to work-but it's not that easy-in this hilarious comedy, everybody: his mother, his wife, fellow employees, friends and doctors, are just as determined to convince him to go back.
  • Fortunata Y Jacinta
    Madera Cinevideo
    108 minutes
    Summary: Based on the major novel by Benito Perez Galdos, Spain's greatest 19th century novelist. Galdos, a European realist, distinguished himself for his interest in the effects that a political situation can have on the thoughts, actions and very essence of men.
  • Frida
    Madera Cinevideo
    108 minutes
    Summary: On her deathbed artist Frida Kahlo conjures up images and memories of her life as a painter, revolutionary and woman of the world. Her stormy relationship with muralist Diego Rivera, her tender hospitality for an exiled Leon Trotsky, her struggle for acceptance as an artist, her affairs with David Siqueiros and others, and the travail of her illness and injuries are all recalled in a style reminiscent of her own work, simultaneously sophisticated and primitive, flamboyant and delicate.
  • Funny Dirty Little War
    Madera Cinevideo
    80 minutes
    Summary: A civil war erupts in a quiet rural Argentine village when a local Peronist politician claims a municipal clerk is a Communist. This savage black comedy lampons political zealots of all kinds, while exposing the roots of the official terrorism that Argentina suffered under the military junta.
  • Ha Llegado un Angel
    Madera Cinevideo
    Summary: Esta algere comedia relata las aventuras de una nina, que mas que nina es un diablillo, o un angel. Sin tener familia y deseando mucho tener una, esta pequena se propone encajar en una casa en donde todo anda de cabeza. Con ilusiones y amor, ella y un amiguito suyo, un pordiosero, ponen a todos en su sitio. Nosotros nos divertiremos mucho y de paso recordaremos lo que es tener un hogar.
  • Juan que Reia: He use to Laugh
    Madera Cinevideo
    104 minutes
    Summary: Just when Juan is riding on his success as a salesman and up for a promotion, his car is stolen. And he needs it for his new position. Juan becomes so obsessed with finding his car, that he neglects his job and his marriage and runs the risk of losing everything. A bittersweet comedy with as many laughs as tender moments.
  • La Maffia
    Madera Cinevideo
    125 minutes
    Summary: The whole internal structure of the Maffia is shaken when one of its members, an ambitious young man, decides to stage a "coup d'etat" to topple the boss. In the war that follows, lives are worth nothing, and love has no room to grow.
  • Memorias De un Mexicano
    Madera Cinevideo
  • Summary: An extraordinary documentary -- considered one of the first films ever produced in Mexico -- on the key events and figures of the Mexican Revolution from 1904 to 1924 as described by the pioneer film maker himself, Salvador Toscano.
  • Mexican Busride
    Madera Cinvideo
  • Mexican Family Celebration
    Educational Video Network, Inc.
    Narrated by various people
    1990-1991 20 minutes
  • Mexican Popular Customs
    Educational Video Network, Inc. 25 minutes
  • El Muerto
    Madera Cinevideo
    103 minutes
    Summary: Based on the short story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges, El Muerto traced the life of Benjamin Otalora. In nineteenth century South America, Otalora must flee Buenos Aires for killing a man. On his arrival in Montevideo, he meets the leader of a smuggling ring who takes him under his wings. As the aging gang leader takes sick however, Otalora covertly attempts to claim power within the ring, In the treacherous final showdown, his destiny is forged.
  • El Nino Perdido
    Madera Cinevideo
    93 minutes
    Summary: Departing from his Pachuco routine, Tin Tan jumps to an urban comedy in this farce about a 25 year-old man isolated from society and suspended in infancy by two greedy aunts who plan to extort his huge inheritance from a grandfather who has never seen him. The madness starts in full force, when Don Jacobo arrives to visit his grandson, and everyone strives to hide the truth. The old man goes for a night on the town with Tin Tan and his music teacher Marcelo, resulting in some of the most unhinged comedy in all of Tin Tan's movies.
  • Pancho Villa Y La Valentina
    Madera Cinevideo
    90 minutes
  • Juan & Evita Peron
    Hispanic and Latin American Heritage--Video Collection
    30 minutes
  • Puerto Ricans
    Multicultural Peoples of North America--Video Series
    30 minutes
  • George Santayana
    Hispanic and Latin American Heritage--Video Collection
    30 minutes
  • Spain: The Moorish Influence
    Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation
    28 minutes
    Summary: This program encompasses Spain's epic story of conquest and reconquest at the crossroads of two worlds. Filmed throughout Spain and Morocco, the program vividly describes the shifting social and political realities of the Islamic and Christian kingdoms.
  • El Super
    Madera Cinevideo
    80 minutes
    Summary: A humorous and touching view of Cuban exiles living in a basement apartment during a snowy winter in New York, El Super is the story of Roberto, a superintendent who dreams of his warm and friendly homeland and stubbornly refuses to assimilate into the new culture. Surrounded by his friends and family, all of whom are struggling to adapt to their new home, he encounters life's most familiar and ordinary irritations. El Super is remarkable for its sense of real people and the human experience.
  • Tango Bar
    Madera Cinvideo
    58 minutes
    Summary: An Honest man is tormented by the discovery that the woman he loves is a professional thief. Moved by his love, she gives up her life of crime to be with him. But he cannot believe in her ever again. A musical melodrama with the best tangos of the thirties.
  • Pancho Villa
    Hispanic and Latin American Heritage--Video Collection
    30 minutes
  • La Virgen de Guadalupe
    Madera Cinvideo
    82 minutes
    Summary: Within a frame of historical splendor, this modern version about Our Lady of Guadalupe show, in radiant colors, the dramatic events surrounding the miracle in a land desolated by the fights between the Spanish conquerors and the last king of the Aztecs.
  • Yo Quiero ser Hombre
    Madera Cinevideo
    91 minutes
    Summary: Paquita must get Pablo to Marry her. Disguised as a boy and with her aunt Anastasia's help, they start working for him as cook and chauffeur. The only problem is that she must marry him in less than a month or risk losing a large inheritance. A hilarious comedy to be enjoyed by the whole family.
  • Soy Alcoholica
    Madera Cinevideo
    101 minutes
    Summary: A powerful and inspiring drama of a woman who fall into the abyss of alcoholism when her man leaves her on the birth of their son. It is a story of courage and the power of love between a mother and her child.