Jóvenes Tejedores

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.

A teacher becomes a mentor to Chicano high-school students protesting injustices in schools in 1968.

A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while trying to give his son the opportunities he never had.

Bolivar De La Cruz, with a baby on the way, has just made the treacherous journey over the border from Mexico to Los Angeles, California, home of the beautiful and restless Lola Sara, whose parents made the same journey some twenty years ago. Now two people from very different sides of the same culture find themselves on a collision course with the events that will change their lives forever.

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.

Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food, but not for life.

A failed boxer (Leguizamo) struggles to find a job and an apartment for his family on Christmas Eve.

A Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.

In a seedy Hollywood motel where her mother works as a maid, a little girl must find the courage to confront the harsh reality of life when she discovers that nothing is quite what it seems, especially her big sister.

A man makes his way from Mexico to Los Angeles in the 1920s and gets married and raises a big family there. The movie follows the children until they get married and start their families in the 1960s.

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach, and at his new school he turns seven disappointing students into one of the best cross-country teams in the region.

Underwater Dreams, narrated by Michael Peña, chronicles the story of how the sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants learned how to build underwater robots. And go up against MIT in the process.

Four Mexican high school students form a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country"s reigning robotics champion, MIT.

Four young friends set out to live on just $1 a day for two months in rural Guatemala. Armed with only a video camera, they battle hunger, parasites, and extreme financial stress as they attempt to survive life on the edge.

A documentary on some of contemporary Mexico"s most iconic artists and performers.

In Spain in 1966, an English teacher picks up two hitchhikers on his quest to meet John Lennon.

The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school he is determined to improve by any and all means.

World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, serving during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.

A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by changing one"s perceptions, the human body can heal itself from any dis-ease.

A biopic about Jose Hernandez and his path from a farm worker to becoming an engineer and an astronaut. A tale of perseverance, community and sacrifice to accomplish a seemingly impossible dream.