Documentaries
¡Quema Judas! (Burning Judas!) by Call Number: BT468 .Q46 2007Publication Date: 2007The city of San Luis Potosí sponsors a yearly competition prompting the creation of oversized paper grotesques called "los judas," symbolizing the evils of society. The burning of these creations on the day before Easter is another artistic endeavor of pyrotechnics.
Los Herederos (The Inheritors) by Call Number: HD6247.A292 M6 2008Publication Date: 2008Depicts the lives of child-workers for Mexican agriculture. As part of families that make their living through agricultural labor, various children provide the viewer with first-hand examples of the hazardous and harsh conditions they face.Cuba, las hijas de fidel by
Call Number: HQ1507 .C83 2006Publication Date: 2006Looks at Cuba through its women from all walks of life: women who transport drugs across borders for their men, mothers searching for their disappeared sons and lovers, as well as women teachers, engineers, ministers, and political leaders.
El Camino de Santiago: no un camino de rosas by Call Number: DP402.S23 C3 2006Publication Date: 2006Interviews pilgrims of different nationalities as well as those who work on the camino de Santiago.
Evita: vida, pasión y muerte by Call Number: F2849.P37 E955 2005Publication Date: 2005Documentary on the life of Eva Perón.
Mar Adentro (The sea inside) by Call Number: RC406.Q33 M37 2005Publication Date: 2005Biography of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life.
Ser Madre en América Latina by Call Number: HQ1460.5 .S47 2004Publication Date: 2004Presents women of Latin America in the roles of mothers, mothers-to-be, and grandmothers.
Spanish-Language Feature Films
SugarCall Number: PN1997.2 .S84 2009Publication Date: 2009Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is forced to reevaluate his life's ambition after his once-trusty arm becomes unreliable.
Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón (To Rob a Thief) by Call Number: PN1995.9.C55 L33766 2008Publication Date: 2008The rule among criminals is don't steal from your own kind. But extreme situations call for extreme measures...
Viva CubaCall Number: PN1995.9.F67 V583 2007Publication Date: 2007In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences.
La Misma Luna by Call Number: PN1997.2 .M57 2008Publication Date: 2008Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while Rosario's mother cares for Carlitos in Mexico.
Cautiva by Call Number: PN1995.9.S87 C3885 2007Publication Date: 2007Cristina Quadri's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s.
El laberinto del fauno (Pan's labyrinth) by Call Number: PN1995.9.F36 P367 2007Publication Date: 2007
