| Title | Description | Location | Type | Language |
| 8A | The Kafka-esque world of Cuba under Castro's rule is brought to light in this reconstruction of the 1989 trial and subsequent execution on charges of drug trafficking of General Arnaldo Ochoa Sánchez, Cuba's highest ranking General, hero of the revolution and commander of the Angolan and Ethiopian campaigns ...Brings an unusual examination of the whole process by using footage of the trial and the reenactments of the conspiracy and executions | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| ?Adios Patria? | Features the views and analyses of highly respected authors, journalists, political figures and scholars. The film attempts to illustrate how the political, economic and social conditions on the island have prompted mass migrations. Interwoven thoughout the documentary are also human stories; the bone-chilling anecdotes which encompass the suffering of the human spirit and its determination to overcome. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Al compas de un Sentimiento | A documentary about the Puerto Rican composer Pedro Flores | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Alicia en el Pueblo do Maravillas | A satire about the life of the Cuban people. Alicia, a culture instructor, is sent to a small town "Maravillas", which is itself an exaggerated, but very ingenious reflection of the real Cuba. The adventures that she has there are almost as crazy and senseless as the ones lived by the other Alice (in Wonderland), reflecting the indoctrination, coercion, absolutisms, and many other everyday problems in Cuban society. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Almost a Woman | A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges she and her family face. Esmeralda Santiago (Ana Maria Lagasca) takes on the life roles of daughter, student and translator for her family. She excels at everything she does, and then she trains to become a stage actress after prompting from her high school guidance counselor. She encounters struggles in the pursuit of her dreams, yet the challenges give her the life experience to become a great actress and writer. | Mankin | VHS | English |
| Alonso's dream | Alonso lives in the Highland of Chenalho, where his community is filled with conflict due to the standoff between the Zapatista National Liberation Army and the Mexican government. The Zapatistias are demanding equal rights for the indigenous people. This film focuses on the impact the revolution and paramilitary violence have had on the daily lives of Mayan peasants. | Library | VHS | Dialogue in Spanish and Mayan with English voiceover |
| Amazon, paradise lost? | Discusses burning and cutting of trees and its effect on Amazon River Region. Also examines gold and iron mining industries and their polluting effect on people, wildlife and environment. | Library | VHS | English |
| Americas (5 Tape Series) | Tape 1. The garden of forking paths; Tape 2. Continent on the move; Tape 3. In women's hands; Tape 4. Get up, stand up; Tape 5. Builders of images. This look at contemporary Latin America examines issues confronting the entire region by focusing on individual communities. | Library, Mankin | VHS | English |
| Amores Perros | Three different people are catapulted into dramaticand unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terriblecar crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Amores Possíveis | Julia, a beautiful university student stands up Carlos at a Rio movie theater. Fifteen years later, the would-be lovers bump into each other. The story follows three different scenarios of what happened in Carlos' life in those 15 years. Only one scenario really happened. Which is his true life? | Library | DVD | Portuguese |
| Asi Cantaba Cuba | Documentary | Mankin | Recording | |
| Azucar amarga | An idealistic young Cuban Communist sours on the political conditions in his country and is willing to let his girlfriend and family go to take action. | Library, Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Boca del lobo, La | A study of a bloody encounter between the PeruvianArmy and the Maoist Shining Path in Chuspi, a small isolated village in the Andes. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Buena Vista Social Club, The | A group of legendary Cuban musicians, some as old as their nineties, were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. In this film, we see and hear some of the songs being recorded in Havana. There is also footage from concerts in Amsterdam and New York City's Carnegie Hall. In addition, many of the individual musicians talk about their lives in Cuba and about how they got started in music. | Perramond, Mankin | VHS | English |
| Café con leche | Short documentary; black and white; Cuba | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Callejón de los Milagros, El | Stories of three neighbors whose lives are intertwined in the old downtown section of Mexico City. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Calle 54 | Introduced to Latin jazz in the 1980s, when he wasbeginning his career as a director, Fernando Trueba has since become a devoted fan of the music. Note jazz artists have scored for some of his films and he took his love of the music one step further in which he gathered together a number of his favorite Latin jazz artists for a series of interviews and performances. | Library | DVD | Spanish/ French |
| Camila | Recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila O'Gorman, who falls in loveand runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez, in 1847. Eventually they are found and executed by the repressive government. The film also makes a statement about the affect of dictatorship onpersonal and political freedom. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Canciones de mi Padre | Mankin | VHS | Spanish | |
| Carlos Fuentes | Carlos Fuentes, noted Mexican author talks about his life and his literary work. In addition, Mr. Fuentes gives readings in English ∓mp; Spanish at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. | Library | VHS | English with some Spanish |
| Carmen | Auditioning dancers for a flamenco ballet adaptation of the opera Carmen, a charismatic choreographer discovers a fiery new leading lady. During rehearsals they become involved in a torrid affair whose emotions parallel the story of jealousy and betrayal in the production. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Central do Brasil | When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. | Library | VHS | Portuguese |
| Changing Role of Latin American Women, The | In this program, several Latina women, including author Isabel Allende, discuss their changing role within the context of Hispanic family values, male machismo, and the traditional role of females as the center of family and community life. Actress Jennifer Lopez explains her choice of career over marriage. A psychiatrist and several Hispanic men examine the issue from the male perspective. Hosted by actor Hector Elizondo. | Mankin | VHS | |
| Christopher Columbus | The epic mini-series tells the story of the legendary Italian-born explorer Diego de Geona Taino, later known as Christopher Columbus, from his birth in c.1450 Genoa, Italy, to his young adult years as an expert sailor and navigator who, with money funded from the monarchy of Spain, sailed to the unknown West to find Asia in 1492, and instead found a 'New World' of the modern day West Indies to South America, and then follows his later years in his 50's as a tired, ailing man whose dreams of exploration and discovery to which he passed onto his son, and other followers, just before his death in 1506. | Mankin | VHS | |
| Cidade de Deus | The world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. The true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out. | Library | DVD | Portuguese |
| Ciudad y los Perros, La | Four angry cadets [in a Peruvian military academy]... set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder and suicide | Library, Mankin | VHS, recording | Spanish |
| Clandestine Stories in Havana | Two Argentinian citizens, soujorn in today's Havana and meet two local Cubans, who happen to be mother and son. Accidentally, one of the couples reunites after many years, and their fate changes drastically. The other couple, a case of platonic love at first sight, falls deeply in love in the backdrop of Cuba's famous sea wall: El Malecón. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Colombia in Crisis | (1999, 29 mins.): "Guerrilla warfare, an expanding drug trade, and a history of government abuses have pushed Colombia to the brink of collapse. This program examines Colombia's deepening crisis, and America's controversial rescue plan." | Nylen | ||
| Colombia Today |
(1993, 25 mins.): "A fresh, independent view of a front-page country. This video provides solid background, physical and human geography with maps; government, politics, economics, culture,
customs, sports. Free of sensationalism and romantic stereotypes." |
Nylen | ||
| Como agua para chocolate | Romantic fantasy set in the early 20th century about a young couple blocked from marrying by the demands of her cold and selfish mother. To be near his love the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Conquistadors (3 Tapes) | Four part series on the discovery of the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors and the subsequent fall of the Aztec and Inca empires. | Library | VHS | English |
| Contemporary Issues in Peruvian Culture (set of videos) | These videos, intended for Spanish language courses, discuss contemporary issues in Peru. Topics covered are: a beauty pageant contrasted with the current situation of women; an election campaign interpreted from different viewpoints; a documentary on a socially committed sector of the Catholic Church; understanding the role of multinational companies and the repurcussions, and a documentary on the cocoa leaf in the culture. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Continent on the move: migration and urbanization. (part of the "Americas" series) | A series of programs looking at contemporary Latin America. This program focuses on Mexico and the migration from rural areas to the cities. Examines the social and economic problems in present day Mexico. | Library | VHS | English/ Spanish |
| Cosas que dejé en La Habana | Three young, charming and beautiful sisters leave Cuba in search for the good life in Spain. Once in Madrid, they move in with their aunt who owns a sweatshop that makes fur coats. Since they lack work permits, their aunt plans to marry them off to suit her own interests. But a friend of their aunt's decides to protect the girls from these manipulations. That is until the friend and one of the sisters ends up falling in love with the same man. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Crimen del Padre Amaro, El | A recently ordained priest is sent to a small parish church in rural Mexico to help an aging priest. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders onobsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. When the priest crosses the line that separates temptation from sin, he finds himself torn between the devine and the carnal, the righteous and the unjust. | Library | DVD | Spanish/ English |
| Cuba | Cuba: A tragic love story set during Cuba's war of independence against Spain. | Library | VHS | Spanish/ English |
| Cuba (2 tapes) | 1. Huber Matos; 2. Waldo Leyva | Mankin | Recording | |
| Cuba 111 | A tenant from a rundown apartment in Old Havana provides a tour of his building. Poor living conditions, including the lack of water and electricity, cause a feeling of frustration and disillusionment among the building's residents. They watch their lives crumble like the paint on the walls, as they return to the days of sending their children to beg on the streets, in the hope that tourists will spare enough money to feed them. The resilient Cuban spirit is evident in the inventive ways that they cope with the economic crisis."-- | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Cuba: Paradox Found | Mankin | VHS | ||
| Dance with Me | Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby (Vanessa Williams) is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship. | Mankin | VHS | English |
| Dios los cría | Five stories about the contradictions and ironies of human conduct: “Dios los cría”, “Negocio redondo”, “Entre doce y una”, “La gran noche” y “la otra”. Their characters and situations reflect Puerto Rican realities but are familiar to people from all places. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Discovering the music of Latin America | Traces the history of Latin American music, pointing out the incorporation of many traditions, particularly Indian and Spanish. Presents some of the modern derivatives, such as the popular dance rhythms of the tango and the rhumba. Includes examples of pre-Columbian and modern instruments. | Library | VHS | English |
| Don Segundo Sombra | The story of Fabio Cáceres learning from his mentor, Don Segundo Sombra, the morals and values of a gaucho through his behavior, stories, and advice. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Dona Flor and her two Husbands | In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies. Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman - the owner of the drugstore (Teodoro). Now she's very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. Then the ghost of Vadhino comes to earth to chase her. | Sitler | VHS | Portuguese |
| Eduardo Galeano (2 Videos) | Eduardo Galeano reads from Walking Words, The Book of Embraces, and from Memory of Fire. | Library | VHS | |
| Eréndira | While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her. | Mankin | Recording | Spanish |
| Ernesto Cardenal | Ernesto Cardenal, an ordained Catholic priest, a revolutionary and an acclaimed poet reads in Spanish from Cántico Cósmico. The English translations are read by actor Edward Asner and poet Rubén Martínez who also interviews Ernesto Cardenal | Library | VHS | |
| Ernesto Che Guevara: Hombre, Compañero, Amigo | Sitler | VHS | ||
| Ernesto "Che" Guevara: le journal de Bolivie | Documentary based on Guevera's diary of his futile 11-month attempt to spark a revolution in Bolivia in 1967. | Library | VHS | |
| Espíritu de mi Mamá, El | Sonia, a young "Garifuna" woman leads a troubled life as a house worker in Los Angeles and is plagued by a haunting memory of a relationship with an Americansoldier. Her effors to escape her presentcircumstances and past trauma are fruitless until she dreams of her deceased mother who calls upon her with a sacred request. In order to comply, she must return to the north coast of Honduras where she embarks on a journey of self-discovery and spiritual rebirth. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Evolution | Gloria Estefan: The Evloution Tour - Live in Miami (1996) | Mankin | VHS | |
| Fábula de la bella palomera | Set on a panoramic Brazilian beach, this film confronts the sexual and social tensions between classes in the romantic story of a wealthy aristocrat's obsessive desire. | Library, Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Fidel | The legendary life of Fidel Castro, from exiled revolutionary to the world's most controversial and longest serving head of state. As seen through the eyes of his wife, mistress and female cohort, this film reveals the untold story of Fidel's rise to become one of the world's most powerful leaders. | Library | DVD | English |
| From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning | An environmental warning from the Kogi elders of Colombia. | Sitler | VHS | |
| Frida | "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary. | Schorr, Sitler | DVD | |
| Gabriel García Márquez: la magia de lo real / Films for the Humanities | Presents a literary biography of Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel prize winner, through conversations with the author, his friends, and his critics. Examines the course of García Márquez's life, the source of his plots and characters, and the forces that have engendered his narrative style. Traces his so-called magical realism, a blending of the real and the fantastic, to the cultural diversity of the Caribbean. Explores the history of Colombia. | Library | VHS | |
| Great day in Havana | A vibrant celebration of artists and musicians in Havana, Cuba's capital. Musicians, painters, sculptors, writers, and filmmakers reveal and reflect on Cuba's precarious political climate, its African heritage, the ironies of tourism, and how to live with dignity in the face of the United States embargo. | Library | DVD | Spanish/ English |
| Guagua aérea, La | great examples of the Puerto Rico/U.S. culture shock. This clash is insightfully represented in great comedic situations. All the characters amply represent the soul of the Puerto Rican in its many wonderful flavors. Some sweet and tender moments round up this wonderful ride of a movie. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Historia Oficial, La | The wife of an Argentinian businessman faces the ultimate challenge when she begins to suspect that her own daughter, adopted at birth, may have been stolen from a family of "los desaparecidos". | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| I'm the One you're Looking for | (Writing credits: Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Natalia, a fashion model, is assaulted by a man one night, when she is returning from work. She decides to take revenge, and obsessively searches for the rapist. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Improper Conduct | An examination of Cuba's "moral purges" that began in 1964 with UMAP camps for those suspected of or found guilty of "improper conduct." Key moments brought outside attention to these policies: the defection of ballet dancers in Paris in 1966, a 48-hour period in 1980 when more than 11,000 Cubans sought asylum in Havana's Peruvian embassy, and the brief detention of writer Virgilio Piñera. Interviews with exiles take up most of the film as they tell their stories and ponder the Castro government's arrest and detention of persons with effeminate mannerisms: what the state calls "extravagant behavior." In essence, the film exposes the Cuban state's homophobic, petit bourgeois nature. | Mankin | Recording | |
| In the Time of the Butterflies | Inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government | Mankin | VHS | English |
| Introducing the Amazon | (1995, 23 minutes): " The Amazon of South America flows through the richest area of plant and animal life on the planet. Explore this magnificent basin and meet the people who enjoy nature's bounty. Also, learn about those who threaten to destroy the entire region." | Nylen | ||
| Jacobo I-III | See (I) Dios los cría; (II) Nicolás y los demás; (III) Lo que le pasó a Santiago | Mankin | VHS | |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman, The | Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found guilty of immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another. | Mankin | VHS | English |
| I' A-- Kuba (I am Cuba) | Four stories show the rise of the Communist revolution in Cuba. Battista's Havana and the poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. | Library | VHS | Spanish and Russian |
| Last revolutionary, The | Dan Rather interviews Fidel Castro and visits scenes from his revolutionary days to build a personal portrait of this complex and contradictory leader. | Library | VHS | In English and Spanish with English vocal translation. |
| Last supper, The | Based on a true incident from 18th century Cuban history, this film is a moral tale of a pious slaveholder who decides to improve his soul and instruct his slaves in the glories of Christianity by inviting 12 of them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper. | Library | VHS | Spanish with enhanced English subtitles |
| Latino voices: artists and community | This set of educational materials traces artistic and cultural contributions to history and contemporary life in this country by people of Latin American heritage | Library | VHS | English |
| Letters from the Park | Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two young people who are in love communicate through letters written by penman. When the young man leaves town, to become a pilot, the girl discovers she is really in love with the one who wrote the letters. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Libertad | After a failed attempt to flee Cuba, an artist is captured and and imprisoned for years. After being released years later he makes a second attempt to flee with friends in a homemade raft. The group finds terror at sea and their search for freedom becomes a journey for survival. | Library | VHS | English |
| Lista de espera | A diverse group of Cubans pass the time while stranded in a remote bus station when their much-repaired bus breaks down. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Lo que le pasó a Santiago | When Santiago retires from the company where he worked for 40 years, he meets Angelina, a mysterious woman. Puzzled by their strange meetings, he hires a private detective to follow her. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Looking for Fidel | Oliver Stone's second documentary on/interview with Fidel Castro specifically addresses his country's recent crackdown on Cuban dissidents; namely, the execution of three men who hijacked a ferry to the United States. | Mankin | Recording | English/ Spanish |
| Malecón | "This thoughtful and personal documentary focuses on the struggles and economic hardships endured in current-day Cuba. Shot from the point of view of an informal sector taxidriver (someone who uses his own car to chauffeur people for a fee), we meet various characters who enter and exit the cab. Girls as young as twelve years old speak about being economically pressed into prostitution. Many passengers express dismay at having lost the economic security they enjoyed under the socialist economy to their reality today in which they face literal hunger." | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Mambo Kings, The | Musician brothers Cesar and Nestor leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, hoping to hit the top of the Latin music scene. Cesar is the older brother, the business manager, and the ladies' man. Nestor is the brooding songwriter, who cannot forget the woman in Cuba who broke his heart. | Mankin | VHS | English |
| Maquila: a tale of two Mexicos | An examination of how Mexico and Mexicans are being impacted by capitalist interests and industrialization after NAFTA, considering low wages, working conditions, environmental and cultural impact. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Mariachi, El | All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse--of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Maricela | A girl who has fled to the United States from El Salvador tries to make friends while keeping her pride in her ethnic background. | Library | DVD | English |
| Mariposas en el Andamio | A rare view of what day-to-day life is like for the gay and drag community in modern Cuba | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Memories of Underdevelopment | Based on the novel: Memorias del subdesarrollo; A study of Cuban society before and after the revolution as seen through the eyes of a man who is a landlord and self-styled writer. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Men with guns/ Los Hombres Armados | An elderly physician that trains young people to provide health care to the poor people of a agricultural country finds out that many of his former students are being killed. He goes there to find out why these men with guns are killing anyone they want. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Miel para Oshún | When his father dies, a Cuban man who was raised in the United States, learns that he was not abandoned by his mother but illegally taken out of Cuba. He goes back to the island and is helped in his search by a cousin and a taxi driver. | Mankin | VHS | |
| Miracle in Rome | (writing credits: Gabriel Garcia Marquez) A man's seven-year-old daughter dies and his grief is overwhelming. After twelve years he finds the body perfectly preserved and his neighbors consider it a miracle and support him in his efforts to fight Church bureaucracy, all the way to Rome. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Mission, The | Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portugese aggressors. | Schorr | VHS | |
| Mujeres Cubanas: Marcadas por el Paraiso | Mankin | VHS | Spanish | |
| My Family | Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930's. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the 50's. As the second generation become adults in the 60's, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent. | Mankin | VHS | English |
| National Geographic Video: Lost Kingdoms of the Maya | An overview of ancient Mayan civilization. | Sitler | VHS | English |
| Nicolás y los Demás | The film deals with the accidental encounter of two friends after years without seeing each other and the return of their rivalries from long ago. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Norte, El | Mayan Indian peasants, tired of being thought of as nothing more than "brazos fuertes" ("strong arms", i.e., manual laborers) and organizing in an effort to improve their lot in life, are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, a brother and sister, teenagers who just barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to "El Norte" ("the North", i.e., the USA). After receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant on strategies for traveling through Mexico, they make their way by truck, bus and other means to Los Angeles, where they try to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants. | Schorr, Mankin | VHS | |
| Nueba Yol | Hispanic comedy set in the Dominican Republic | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| O testamento do senhor Napumoceno | The posthumous story of Cape Verde's leading citizen, who leaves his fortune to the daughter no one knew he had. As part of her inheritance, Graca receives a set of audiocassettes containing her father's personal accounts of his wild, romantic and often dubious exploits. | Library | DVD | Portuguese |
| Octavio Paz (2 Tapes) | Octavio Paz, the foremost poet of Latin America, reads at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams | Library | VHS | Readings in Spanish with English subtitles |
| Official Story, The | Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the "junta militar" that had taken over the government since 1976. She has a husband, Roberto, who is a succesful lawyer and a five-year-old adopted daughter. | Mankin | VHS | |
| One Man's War | A doctor in Paraguay runs a clinic funded by sales of his artwork in America. While in America, he tries to expose the repressive Paraguayan regime. His obsession brings repercussions from the government against his family. | Mankin | VHS | English |
| Otra Cuba, La | Documentary (1986) | Mankin | VHS | |
| Panama Deception, The | This documentary details the case that the 1989 invasion of Panama by the US was motivated not by the need to protect American soldiers, restore democracy or even capture Noriega. It was to force Panama to submit the will of the United States after Noriega had exhausted his usefulness. | Mankin | VHS | English |
| Pantaleón y las visitadoras | A dedicated Peruvian army captain (and devoted husband) is put in charge of a top secret military operation--setting up a brothel in the Amazon jungle to satisfy the needs of his fellow soldiers. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Paraíso bajo las estrellas, Un | The lovers, Sissy and Sergio, are victims of their parents turbulent past as they become entangled in a love story filled with misfortune and serendipity. Sissy is the rebellious daughter of an ex-Tropicana singer who aspires to perform at the club against her father's wishes. Sergio, her handsome lover, might also be her brother, which is a problem until she discovers photographs of him in the arms of another woman. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
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Parhikutini: The Paricutin Volcano (Mexico) |
Purepecha-language video with Spanish sub-titles | Perramond | VHS | |
| People and places of Peru | [1. ] Los niños que vinieron/Margot, la del circo (25 min.) -- [2. ] Encuentro de hombrecitos (30 min.) -- [3. ] El artista popular (30 min.) -- [4. ] Cuzco, las ciudad y su gente (43 min.) -- [6. ] El hombre y su medio : la sierra central (27 min.).These videos with historical overviews and stories give varied impressions of life in Peru long ago and today. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Quién diablos es Juliette? | A look at the lives and thoughts of some young people in Havana in the 1990's as seen through the making of a film,"The story of Yuliet Ortega ∓mp; Fabiola Quiroz as filmed by Carlos Marcovich." | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Retrato de Teresa | Teresa is a housewife and mother whose involvement in political and cultural groups incurs the displeasure of her husband. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Rock en Español | Mankin | VHS | Spanish | |
| Rodrigo D: no futuro | A shockingly accurate and timely portrayal of the reckless existence of youths in one of the most exciting and dangerous cities in Latin America - Medellín, Colombia, in 1988. Backed with a frenetic punk rock soundtrack, the film centers around Rodrigo, a would-be drummer, and his friends who are trapped in the violence and drugs which define their turbulent lifestyle. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Roots of Rythym | A three-part historical survey of the African musical roots of Latin Jazz, Salsa, and popular genres. Featuring narration by Harry Belafonte, this documentary traces the evolution of Latin Music from Africa itself into the twentieth century with the advent of Afro-Cuban Jazz (or Latin Jazz) and later the advent of Latin pop sounds by such artists as Gloria Estefan. A musical journey for historians, musicians, and music lovers alike. | Mankin | VHS | |
| Sacred games | Presents how The Maya people see The world and how their symbolic world is renewed in the annual carnival celebrations. | Library | VHS | English and Spanish |
| Salsa y Tropical | Mankin | VHS | ||
| Salvador |
A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assasination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He forms an
uneasy alliance with both guerillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels.
Meanwhile he has to find a way of protecting his Salvadorean girlfriend and getting her out of the country. |
Mankin | Recording | English |
| Santitos | After the widowed Esperanza loses her daughter to a rare virus, she searches her faith for an explanation. When St. Jude appears to her and tells her that her daughter is still alive, Esperanza becomes convinced her daughter was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave. Becoming a prostitute, she sets out to find her daughter in Tijuana. She eventually finds her way to Los Angeles where she unexpectedly finds true love. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| School of Assassins | (1999, 35 mins.) Human rights abuses by graduates of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) are chillingly documented at the beginning of the campaign to close the school. Susan Sarandon, narrator." | Nylen | ||
| Secretos del corazón | Javi believes he can hear the voices of the dead and that they whisper to him their secrets, which were left unspoken in life. At his mother's house in the mountains, he is fascinated by the room in which his father died and which his mother carefully keeps locked. But, Javi also learns that the living have their secrets as well. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Sesión Latina | Mankin | VHS | ||
| Sentinels of Silence | "The ruins of ancient Mexico" | Sitler | VHS | |
| Sin dejar huella | The story of two women on the run: one a Spanish dealer in ersatz Mayan relics, the other a young mother who has run away from her drug dealer boyfriend and who hopes to build a better life for her two children. The two women ultimately form a bond of solidarity and camaraderie that is put to the test when both a border officer and the boyfriend catch up with them. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Solas | A touching story about women whose emotional lives are as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a troubled woman who drinks, smokes, and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother who comes to visit while her father is in the hospital. Her mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor who lives downstairs, while patiently trying to reach out to her own daughter. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Sones Cubanos | Trio matamoros, Benny Moré, etc | Mankin | Recording | |
| Stand and Deliver | Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students. | Mankin | VHS | English |
| Suite Habana | Dawn breaks in La Habana, and as the day advances we follow the simple lives of ten ordinary Cubans, with only sounds and images accompanied by music. | Mankin | DVD | Spanish |
| Summer of Miss Forbes, The | (writing credits: Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes' secret. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Super, El | 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. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Tacones de lejanos | A girl's mother returns after 15 years to find her daughter has married one of her (the mother's) old boyfriends. They try to mend their broken mother/daughter relationship and deal with their common lover. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Tango | The story of a director's passionate love affair with his art and the beautiful young woman who captures his heart. | Library, Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Tango, Baile Nuestro | The sensuality and stylized rituals adored by the inhabitants of Buenos Aires are captured in the complex art form of the tango. Jorge Zanada, the director, spent years researching the unique role of the tango in the national landscape, exploring the machismo and passion that feed the dance. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Tango bar | Tango Bar burns with the white heat of Argentina's energetic, erotic national dance. Once, Ricardo, Elena and Antonio dazzled nightclub audiences with the feverish magic of the tango. That was before police-state intervention. And before Elena dropped Antonio for Ricardo. Now, as the three performers uneasily await their reunion, they look back on their years together...and present a breathtaking,generations-spanning showcase of tangos and, well, tangles from the world-acclaimed dancers of the Tango Argentino revue. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Tecnicas de duelo: una cuestión de honor | "At the end of the fifties, the habitual calm of a nameless town in the heart of the Andes is shaken by the news of an up-coming duel between the local school-teacher and the butcher -- men who only yesterday were friends and political allies. Egged on by the clergy, the militia and the town's bureaucrats, a private affair becomes a gladiatorial spectacle" | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| This is Cuba | Director Chris Hume traveled to Cuba four times without applying for any special permits to film. Armed only with a tiny Hi-8 camera, he crisscrossed the island, gaining access to people and places that would have otherwise been off-limits. In spite of the danger, he has brought back a haunting portrait of a land that has defied history." | Library | VHS | English |
| Tinta roja | Young college graduate wants to be an entertainment writer, but in his first journalism job is assigned to the daily crime column on a tabloid newspaper. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Todos Santos: the survivors | Documents the changes wrought by guerrilla warfare and government reprisal in the Indian village of Todos Santos Cuchumatan, in the Guatemalan highlands, since the documentary of that name was made in 1979. | Library | VHS | In English and Spanish with English voice over translation and subtitles |
| Truth about Fidel Castro revolution, The | During the time Errol Flynn and Victor Pahlen lived in Havana operating a movie theater the revolution brokeout. Sensing the import of history in the making, they grabbed their cameras to capture what they could for posterity. After the revolution, this film was screened at the Moscow Film Festival where it was the first time the Russian people had ever seen the face of Fidel Castro. | Library | DVD | English |
| Vagón fumador | A suicidal cabaret singer and a male prostitute find solace with each other in Buenos Aires. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, A | (writing credits: Gabriel Garcia Marquez) A strange man appears in a poor village. He has very large wings growing from his back. The family in whose yard he lands shelters him in a chicken coop and exploits him as an angel in a carnival atmosphere. His message is not necessarily what one expects from a creature of Heaven. | Mankin | VHS | Spanish |
| Vidas Paralelas/ Parallel lives | Library | DVD | ||
| Virgen de los Sicarios, La | An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis. | Library | DVD | Spanish |
| What the Women are Saying | Women and development in Todos Santos | Sitler | VHS | |
| Y Tu Mama Tambien | Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, teenagers Tenoch and Julio meet the older Luisa at a wedding. Trying to be impressive, the friends tell Luisa they are headed on a road trip to a beautiful, secret beach called Boca del Cielo. Intrigued with their story and desperate to escape, Luisa asks if she can join them on their trip. Soon the three are headed out of Mexico City, making their way toward the fictional destination. Along the way, seduction, argument and the contrast of the trio against the harsh realities of the surrounding poverty ensue. | Schorr, Sitler | DVD | |
| Yo, la peor de todas | Based on the book: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, o, Las trampas de la fe / Octavio Paz. This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to. | Library | VHS | Spanish |
| Zapatistas: The Next Phase | A short film on the national assembly held in Chiapas shortly after the 1994 uprising. | Sitler | VHS | English with Spanish subtitles |