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The Latin American Studies Collection

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The Latin American Studies Collection collection includes the following titles:

La Boda - imageLa Boda

Hannah Weyer’s La Boda offers an intimate look at migrant life along the U.S.-Mexican border through 22-year-old Elizabeth Luis’s journey to marriage.

Women Make Movies | 2000 | 53 minutes | 7-9, College, Adults
M20 Matamoros - imageM20 Matamoros

A group of men from the slums of Matamoros, Mexico create a dance that beats the ground, that contradicts and breaks the stereotypes of their lives and what is expected of them.

EPF Media | 2023 | 87 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Through the Earth - imageThrough the Earth

Blanca and Patzi, Bolivian women who migrate to Buenos Aires, carry with them ancient stories, Aymara dreams, adobe homes, moonlit memories, and harvests.

EPF Media | 2024 | 70 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Relentless Memory - imageRelentless Memory

A Mapuche researcher embarks on the same journey her ancestors made when they were expelled from their lands during the military invasions that founded Argentina and Chile.

EPF Media | 2024 | 93 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Under the Flags, the Sun - imageUnder the Flags, the Sun

Through rare and long-forgotten footage, this documentary uncovers the hidden machinery of Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay—one of history's longest-running regimes.

Icarus Films | 2025 | 92 minutes
The Age of Water - imageThe Age of Water

When three children die of leukemia in a rural Mexican community, two mothers partner with a scientist to investigate their water supply.

Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 76 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
A Question of Conscience: The Murder of the Jesuit Priests in El Salvador - imageA Question of Conscience: The Murder of the Jesuit Priests in El Salvador

Examines the November 16, 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador by uniformed soldiers. The film offers a chilling warning of how easily ordinary men can be turned into mass murderers.

Icarus Films | 1990 | 47 minutes
100 Children Waiting for a Train - image100 Children Waiting for a Train

Filmmaker Ignacio Aguero poetically tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality - and a different world - through the cinema.

Icarus Films | 1988 | 55 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
108 (Cuchillo de Palo) - image108 (Cuchillo de Palo)

An investigation into the shadowy circumstances of  the death of Rodolfo Costa's, a persecuted gay man; and Paraguay's terrifying "108" homosexual blacklists that ruined lives, careers, and families.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 91 minutes
10th Parallel - image10th Parallel

A voyage deep into the Amazon to explore the implications of Brazil's policy on uncontacted indigenous tribes.

Icarus Films | 2011 | 87 minutes | 9-12, COLLEGE, ADULT

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