Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta

Movies for Dolores Huerta...

A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Title: A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Character: Self
Released: October 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Song for Cesar is a documentary film with a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement. The film tells a previously untold story about the musicians and artists who dedicated their time, creativity and even reputations to peacefully advance Cesar Chavez's movement to gain equality and justice for America's suffering farmworkers.
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Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire
Title: Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Mixing archival footage with interviews, this film celebrates one of Los Angeles's most influential painters and Chicano art activists from the 1970s.
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Eat the Rainbow
Title: Eat the Rainbow
Released: April 13, 2019
Type: Movie
A musical fable about an odd yet kind man named Bayani who moves into a conservative suburban neighborhood and disrupts the otherwise comfortable homogeny. He doesn't look or act like anyone else which causes fear and panic and eventually a demand for him to leave the neighborhood. Cousin Wonderlette befriends Bayani and together they take on the opposition led by manipulative and unscrupulous realtor Lobelia Gerber.
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Title: I Love You, America
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2017
Type: TV
Follow Sarah Silverman as she looks to connect with people who may not agree with her personal opinions through honesty, humor, genuine interest in others and not taking herself too seriously. She feels that now more than ever it's crucial to connect with un-like-minded people.
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Beauty Bites Beast
Title: Beauty Bites Beast
Released: August 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Beauty Bites Beast aims to 'normalize' the idea of women's self-defense - and by extension, kids' self-defense - as a human need and right.
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The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement
Title: The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes Of The United Farm Workers Movement
Character: Herself
Released: May 10, 2014
Type: Movie
The Delano Manongs tells the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the American farm labor movement’s finest hours – The Delano Grape Strike of 1965 that brought about the creation of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). While the movement is known for Cesar Chavez’s leadership and considered a Chicano movement, Filipinos played a pivotal role. Filipino labor organizer, Larry Itliong, a cigar-chomping union veteran, organized a group of 1500 Filipinos to strike against the grape growers of Delano, California, beginning a collaboration between Filipinos, Chicanos and other ethnic workers that would go on for years.
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The Latino List: Volume 2
Title: The Latino List: Volume 2
Character: Self
Released: September 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Documentary film interviews leading Latinos on race, identity, and achievement.
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Miss Representation
Title: Miss Representation
Character: Self
Released: January 20, 2011
Type: Movie
The film MISS REPRESENTATION exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. It’s time to break that cycle of mistruths.
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Chicana
Title: Chicana
Released: January 14, 1979
Type: Movie
CHICANA traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women's role in Aztec society, their participation in the 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, their involvement in the US labor strikes in 1872, their contributions to the 1910 Mexican revolution and their leadership in contemporary civil rights causes. Using murals, engravings and historical footage, CHICANA shows how women, despite their poverty, have become an active and vocal part of the political and work life in both Mexico and the United States.
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Yo Soy Chicano
Title: Yo Soy Chicano
Released: August 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Portrays the Chicano experience, from its roots in pre-Columbian history to the present, by dramatically recreating key events in Mexican history and by presenting interviews with Chicano leaders, Dolores Huerta, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Rodolfo Gonzalez, and Jose Angel Gutierrez, who discuss solutions to the oppression of Chicanos.