The Center for Latin American Studies has a small film library from which we can loan out videos to SDSU students and faculty. The collection contains a mixture of feature films and educational works dealing with Latin America. ITS and the Love Library also have numerous films with Latin American Content. (This section is a work in progress)
Film are listed alphabetically A-C, D-G, H-M, N-S, T-Z
Highland Indians in Peru - Description Not Available
The Hispanic Americans: Latin and African Americans: Friend or Foe - Description Not Available
Historias de Futbol- A look at Chilean society through three stories that involve futbol. Bribery, loyalty, and passion are some of the themes that encompass the social importance of this national sport.
Hungry Angels- Description Not Available
Indian Music of Latin America - Using both indigenous instruments and those brought from Spain, the Mexican group Los Chicahuastles performs a wide range of both pre-Columbian and post-conquest music from Latin America. Covers ancient traditions and new musical styles. Study sheet of questions and educational objectives to facilitate classroom instruction.
Indian Villagers in Mexico- Description Not Available
Inside the School of the Assassins - "Inside the School of the Assassins" is a feature documentary that includes riveting new information about training at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) in Ft. Benning, Ga. The video highlights interviews with three people from Latin American countries who never met one another. All link torture training to the U.S. funded school. Two of these individuals were SOA trainees; the third, a victim of the training who found a torture training manual used by SOA after his wife was killed by a former SOA student
Introducing South America - From the jungles of Columbia and Brazil to the cold, mountain ranges at the southernmost tip of Chile and Argentina, South America is a continent almost unparalleled in its geographic diversity. This video is a brief but informative survey of these fascinating lands. With depictions of the Amazon river basin, the Andes mountain range, the Argentine pampas and other natural wonders, students are able to see the majesty of South America beyond the names and dates of the average history course.
In Whose Honor: American Indian Mascots - Description Not Available
Jornales del Tiempo. Instituto Nacional Indigenista Archivo Etnografico Audiovisual- Description Not Available
Journey to Chinale - Description Not Available
Juarez: Crimes Against Women (2 copies) - Description Not Available
Julio Comienza en Junio- Set in Chile in 1917, a well off Chilean landowner celebrates his sons 15th birthday with a group of prostitutes to initiate his manhood. This is the story of a teenager in high class Chilean society and his journey through social rites.
LARC: Alternative Language Teaching Techniques Project - Description Not Available
La Ley de Herodes (Herod's Law) - It's the 1940s and Juan Vargas is just a minor member of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), who finds himself elected the mayor of a small village. But soon, Vargas has grown power-hungry and with the help of corrupt politician Lopez, Vargas tightens his grip and expands his sphere of influence, through a policy of fear, extortion and criminality.
Los Ultimos Zapatistas: Heroes Olvidados / The Last Zapatistas: Forgotten Heroes
A documentary by Francesco Taboada Tabone & Sarah Perrig
http://www.lastzapatistas.com/
The Liberations - Description Not Available
Life and Debt - Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.
Machu Picchu - Description Not Available
Machuca- Set in Chile shortly before the military coup of 1973, this movie tells the story of a lower class child who is integrated into an elite school. It explores the relationship between two students whose families come from opposite ends of Chile’s political spectrum.
Las Madres de la Plaza - This Academy award-nominated documentary about the Argentinian mothers' movement to demand to know the fate of 30,000 "disappeared" sons and daughters remains as extraordinarily powerful as when it was first released. As well as giving an understanding of Argentinian history in the '70s and '80s, Las Madres shows the empowerment of women in a society where women are expected to be silent. Las Madres provides a banner of hope in the international struggle for human rights.
Malajunta - Description Not Available
Man of Leather - Description Not Available
Maria's Story - Description Not Available
The Maya of Toledo-Ancient Culture, Modern Lives One of the oldest and greatest civilization of the New World is the Mayan. Though their ancient empires have collapsed and fallen to ruin the Maya have not disappeared. Settling small villages in the rainforest, at the foothills of the Mayan Mountains of southern Belize, the Kekchi and Mopan Maya live without modern conveniences, electricity and running water. Growing their own food, hunting and gathering from the jungle they retain a purity and balance the modern, industrialized world has lost. This insightful documentary shows how the Maya continue to survive, bringing together their ancient culture and modern lives.
Me Queda La Palabra
Una Realizacion de Bernardo Kononovich (2004)
La Shoá (el Holocausto) y la masacre de los años setenta en Argentina son acontecimientos históricos diferentes. Sin embargo, muchos consideran que ambas tragedias se entrelazan y esta película reflexiona al respecto. Kononovich, también psicoanalista además de premiado realizador de varios cortos y mediometrajes, indaga acerca de cómo han hecho sobrevivientes de campos de concentración nazi y de secuestros y desapariciones en la Argentina, para recrear una vida cotidiana en condiciones razonablemente normales: formar una familia, desarrollar una profesión, sostener lazos sociales. Explorando sobre los límites del contar y la capacidad de los otros para escuchar, arriba a preguntas tales como ¿a quién le hablan los sobrevivientes? ¿Qué esperan de nosotros? ¿Queremos escucharlos? / La nieta le pregunta a la abuela qué significan esos números tatuados en su brazo. La respuesta dará lugar a un equívoco que se resuelve inesperadamente. Brillante cortometraje de un joven realizador mexicano.
Mexican Busride - Description Not Available
Mexico: Ciudad Encantador - Description Not Available
Mexico: The Frozen Revolution - Description Not Available
Mexico: The Grandeur of New Spain - This historical account of events in Mesoamerica after the arrival of the Spaniards describes the complex nature of the conquest and the evangelization. The religious and civil art of the viceregal period expresses the new dawn of Mexican culture as a product of the fusion of indigenous and Spanish traditions. A sample is offered of the applied arts of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as the architectural, sculptural and pictorial styles known as tequitqui, Plateresque, Baroque, Churrigueresque and Neo-classical.
Mi Mejor Enemigo- Explores the world of friendship and the absurdity that can exist between human beings that supposedly should be enemies. During hostilities between Chile and Argentina in the 1970’s a lost Chilean military patrol comes upon a patrol from Argentina in the same situation.
Miners in Bolivia - Description Not Available
Mixed Feelings - Description Not Available
Modern Mexico: The Artistic Identity - This view of the development of the art of painting in Mexico in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries shows how the country responded to artistic movements of the time. The works shown enable us to recreate the cultural history of a country that experienced two decisive conflicts, the War of Independence and the revolution. These events gave birth to an overwhelming spirit of nationalism which was powerfully expressed in the provinces and which culminated in the Muralist movement of the twenties and in contemporary Mexican sculpture.
Music of Latin America - The blending of indigenous and European influences creates the unique sound of Latin American music. Instruments used by the Indians as well as the Spaniards are examined. It is geared for elementary and middle school students.
Last Update: 04-Dec-2008
