Labor Studies
TWENTY YEARS LATERLabor Studies Sociology Latin-American Studies Political Science
In the early Sixties, the Brazilian peasant leader,
João Pedro Teixeira, was assasinated by two gunmen hired by local landowners.
Teixeira's story was being filmed as a docu-drama when the 1964 military coup
prevented the completion of the film. The entire crew was imprisoned and their equipment confiscated.
Twenty years later, in a more democratic Brazil,
director Eduardo Coutinho recovered his confiscated film and located the murdered peasant's widow and children. Coutinho's interviews with her and other families are interwoven with sequences from the original docu-drama
to produce an unusually provocative historical film.
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STRONG ROOTSLatin-American Studies Labor Studies Political Science Sociology Spanish Language Directed by Women
This video documents the struggles of peasants in the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil, which is engaged in a national political campaign to occupy and cultivate unused land.
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GRASS WAR!: PEASANT STRUGGLE IN BRAZILLabor Studies Latin-American Studies Political Science Sociology Directed by Women
In 1959, some 800 families resisted efforts to remove them from their remote farms. One peasant leader, Jofre Correa Netto, became known as the “Fidel Castro of Brazil,” and became the target of an assassination attempt.
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WHO BUILT AMERICA? (series)American Studies American History Labor Studies Education Women's Studies World History Sociology
This ten-part series on nineteenth and twentieth-century American history uses period graphics and innovative computer animation to make history accessible and exciting for high school, college and adult education students.
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SEEN BUT NOT HEARDAmerican Studies Chicano Studies Criminal & Law Labor Studies Latino Studies New York City Sociology Terrorism Studies Women's Studies Immigration
This video follows the lives of four Mexican women and their families whose undocumented husbands and partners, as workers at the World Trade Center, lost their lives in the tragic events of 9/11.
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LA RAZA UNIDAChicano Studies Labor Studies Latino Studies Political Science Sociology
Documents the first national convention in El Paso, Texas in September 1972 of the La Raza Unida Party, a third political party whose membership consisted primarily of Mexican-American citizens.
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IN CANE FOR LIFESpanish Language Sociology Latin-American Studies Labor Studies Environmental Studies Economics
Shot during the seven months of the Brazilian sugar cane harvest, this video portrays what may be the last generation of the nation's 800,000 sugar cane cutters (an environmental law approved by the National Congress has ruled that by 2015 practically all cane harvesting must be mechanized).
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HARD EARTHSociology Labor Studies African Studies
Against the current political backdrop of attacks on white-owned farms in Zimbabwe, this documentary investigates what life is like on one of these occupied farm estates.
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NEIGHBORS: THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICOSpanish Language Sociology Latino Studies Labor Studies Economics Chicano Studies Immigration
An in-depth look at economic relations between the U.S. and Mexico, including banking,
trade and illegal immigration, and the impact of maquiladoras—labor-intensive factories
owned by U.S. firms but located in Mexico—and how these "offshore" operations affect
American consumers and workers.
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BITTER CANESpanish Language Sociology Political Science Latin-American Studies Labor Studies Economics
Examines the history of Haiti, from the 1804 revolution to the occupation (1915-34) by
U.S. Marines, and the repressive Duvalier regimes of `Papa Doc' and `Baby Doc.'
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GUATEMALA: ROADS OF SILENCESociology Spanish Language Political Science Labor Studies Latin-American Studies
Examines the plight of Guatemalan Indian peasants victimized by the government's
counterinsurgency program which has led many Guatemalans to go into exile or to become
internal refugees inside the country.
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PRODUCING MIRACLES EVERYDAYEconomics Labor Studies Latin-American Studies Spanish Language
Over half of the Latin American labor force works in the "informal economy," creating their own forms of income and employment through hard work and ingenuity. This documentary celebrates the resourcefulness of impoverished people throughout the developing world for whom economic necessity is truly the mother of invention.
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