Media Library

Films available for faculty associates to check out for classroom use. 

Alias ‘La Gringa
Amorres Perros  (DVD) 2
An American Rhapsody 4-19
And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him 2-22
Black God, White Devil  3
Black Orpheus (DVD)  4
La Boca del Lobo  22 
Bye Bye Brazil 5
Camila  6
Central Station (DVD) 47
Como Água para Chocolate  7
Central Station   46
City of God  (DVD)  8
The Crime of Father Amaro (DVD) 38
Don de Dios  (DVD) 4-24
Eduardo Galeano Vol 1., El Siglo de la Luces 10-11
Eva Peron  (DVD) 15
Four Days in September  16
Frida 17/18
Great Day in Havana (DVD)  19
The Green Wall 38
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman 20
I, The Worst of All  21
The Last Supper 40
The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo 3-72
Like Water for Chocolate  23
Lucia   25-26
Memories of an Underdevelopment 27
Midaq Alley (DVD) 28
The Mission  (DVD and VHS) 45
My Family 29
El Norte  14
The Official Story  41
Los Olvidados 24
Missing 2-37
Pixote  (DVD) 30
Popi   49
Portrait of Teresa  31
Quilombo  32
Rebellion in Patagonia 33
El Recurso del Metodo  12-13
Reed, México Insurgente 34
Romero 35
State of Fear  3-71
Strawberry and Chocolate 36
Terra em Transe 37
Up to a Certain Point  42
Viva Villa  43
Y Tu Mamá también (DVD)  44 


Documentaries

Americas (10 Volumes)
Vol 1: The Garden of Forking Paths: Dilemmas 2-27
Vol 2: Capital Sins: Authoritarianism and Democratization 2-28
Vol 3: Continents on the Move: Migration and Urbanization 2-29
Vol 4: Mirrors of the Heart: Race and Identity 2-30
Vol 5: In Women’s Hands: The Changing Roles of Women 2-31
Vol 6: Miracles Are Not Enough: Continuity and Change in Religion  2-32
Vol 7: Builders of Images. Vol 7: Latin American Cultural Identity  2-33
Vol 8: Get Up, Stand Up: Problems of Sovereignty 2-34
Vol 9: Fire in the Mind: Revolutions and Revolutionaries  2-35
Vol 10: The Latin American and Caribbean Presence in the U.S.
The Buried Mirror (5 volumes) 3-64
Vol 1: The Virgin and the Bull
3-65
Vol 2: Conflict of the Gods  3-66
Vol 3: The Age of the Gold 3-67
Vol 4: The Price of Freedom 3-68
Vol 5: Unfinished Business 3-69
Carnayal Ponceñto 4-18
Central America Close-up 3-58
El Che: Investigating a Legend (DVD) 3-62
Chicano! Mexican American Civil Rights Movement I 2-20
Chicano! Mexican American Civil Rights Movement II 2-21
Conquistadores 3-57
Did They Buy It?  3-50
Echando Raices/Taking Root 3-41
Environment Under Fire: Ecology and 3-51
Frontline: Crisis in Central America 3-48
Frontline: Crisis in Central America  Part 1: Yankee Years Part 2: Cuba 3-49
Frontline News. “War on Nicaragua” 3-4-93 4-17
Hispanic Culture Series: People of the Caribbean  3-52
In Search of History: The Aztec Empire  3-55
The Incas 3-46
Martin Chambi and the Heirs of Incas 3-60
Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas 3-56
Mexican Politics: El Salvador 3-47
Mexico Part 1 and 2 3-42
Mexico Part 3 3-43
Mosaico Culture 3-63
The New Explorers: Mystery of the Lines 3-44/3-4
Nicaragua: No Pasaran  2-38
No Grapes 3-77/3-78
Of Ebony Embers
3-74
The Other Side of Immigration (DVD) 48
Our Forgotten War 3-40
The Panama Invasion Revisited: Lessons for Today  3-53
Pictures from a Revolution  3-61
Politics in Central America 3-43
Primetime Live 2-21-96 2-19
Puedo Hablar? (DVD) 4-25/4-26
La Revolución No Será Transmitida (DVD) 4-22
Scars of Memory: El Salvador, 1932  3-70
School of Assassins 3-54
The Silken Phoenix 3-75
Today’s Cuba: Fidel Castro 2-39
Tres Vidas 3-73
Viva Rio 3-59
Voices in the Stones 3-76
The West WTTW 9-16-96 2-23
The West WTTW 9-17-96  2-24
The West WTTW 9-18-96  2-25
The West WTTW 9-19-96 2-26
Which Way Home (DVD)  46

Albert Camarillo 9-15-86 4-3
“Inter-University Program for Latino Research”
Prof. Aldredo Mirande 3-26-86
2-10

 “The Chicano Experience” Alejandro Portes 4-22-85 4-1
Ballet Folkorico "Quetzalli" 4-14
Carlos Cortes 3-3-83 4-2
“Media Curriculum on Hispanics:Challenge and Opportunity for Educational Change” Carlos A. Ramirez 10-27 4-6


 “The New Mexican Congress Multi-Party Representation
& U.S. Mexican Relations” Center for Latinos and
Latin American Studies
2-12


Cesar Chavez 10-30-90 4-7
“The Wrath of Grapes” Cesar Chavez "Boycott of Grapes" 2-11
Cortina 11-06-86 4-4
“Treatment of the Cubans in Miami” Debate: Chavez vs. Candelaria 2-1
Elena Poniatowska 10-22-00 4-11
“Women’s Rights Issues” Emerging Powers: Mexico and Brazil 2-17
Jan de Vos 4-22-96  4-5
“The Mayans of Chiapas” Latino Studies 4-28-93 4-8
Latino Studies Speaker 4-10
Luis Rodriguez 4-9
“Latino Ganges in L.A. and Chicago”
Luis Rodriguez Poetry Reading
2-18

"La Vida Loca Gang Days in LA" 1993 Maria Elba Magnarelli. 6-21-01 4-15

“Centro de la Mujer” Message from the Barrio,
Charo of the Barrio, Bread for Barrio
2-4

Mi Gran Bandera: Young Lord’s Radio Interview (CD) 4-27/28
Miguel d’Escoto 11-1-93 2-14
Naom Chomsky 3-31-88 2-16
"U.S. Foreign Policy, Central American And The Middle East" Brandeis University/Walthan MA The National Hispanic University, “It can be done” 2-8


Ricardo Fernandez “Problems of Hispanic Students” 2-2/2-3
Prof. Rodolfo Corgina 11-6-86  2-9
Samuel Betances Benefit 2-6
Sandra Cisneros 3-24-93 2-13
Sergio Ramirez 11-8-00 4-12
“The Last Revolution of the 20th Century”Sergio Ramirez 11-9-00 4-13

“Oficios Departidos del Escritor y Politico”The Shape of
Images to Come, Image and Nightmare 
2-7

Tino Villanueva 4-5-93 2-5
La Vida Loca Gang Days in LA 1993 2-18

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