USA Struggle to Stop All Leftists in Latin & South America

On a bicycle trip through South America Martin finds exploitation, destruction and abject subjugation due to the USA

A self-centered gambler falls in love with a revolutionary in Havana, Cuba

Love story of a sort set in Havana at the time of the takeover by Castro

Love story set in Havana at the time of the takeover by Castro

Rise to power of Fidel Castro

Ode to Castro revolution

Che's political education on a motorcycle

With Benicio del Torro as Che

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, co-rebel with Fidel Castro in Cuba & rebel leader elsewhere (with Benicio del Torro as Che)

Che Guevara

A young supporter of Castro becomes disillusioned

Three transitional periods in Cuban history from the perspectives of three women named Lucia

Simple country man leaves his village to join the rebels, in Havana he falls in love, but he also falls apart, changed by the revolution

Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis docudrama

Traces CIA activities over a 40-year period, from the beginning of the Cold War through the demise of the Soviet Union; has a depiction of the Bay of Pigs fiasco

Homosexual Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas is terribly abused by the totalitarian Cuban system

Wealthy man caught in the transitions during the Cuban revolution of 1959

An 11 year old boy is able to live a somewhat normal life against the background of the Cuban Revolution, 1958

Errol Flynn, playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Batista

Dominican dictator, Ulises Heureaux, presidency 1882 to his assassination in 1899

About the Mirabal sisters and their fight against dictator Trujillo (who reigned from 1930 to 1961)

Three Mirabal sisters risk their very lives by opposing Dictator Leónidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic

Trujillo

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo and the memories of the times of tyrant Leónidas Trujillo

Manolo Tavárez Justo (1931-1963) lawyer and political activist with the 14th of June Movement and husband of Minerva Argentina Mirabal

About Jesús de Galíndez Suárez, activist of the PNV party and Basque diplomat who disappeared in 1956 because of his opposition to Trujillo

A young boy grows up against the background of the US-backed takeover of the Guatemalan Government in 1954

Ed Harris as Walker who took over Nicaragua in 1855

1978, CIA war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua

Trouble in Nicaragua

Radicalization of a young man in response to US atrocities in his country

Marine makes illegal deal of arms for hostages & becomes right-wing hero

Leftist bishop in El Salvador assassinated, 1980

US journalist investigates assassination of Romero in El Salvador

Innocent people caught in the El Salvador civil war in the 1980s

Manuel Noriega and 1989 Invasion of Panama

Based on 5 soldiers in the Panama invasion murdering a Panamanian woman in a drunken spree

A love story set in civil war in Colombia following the assassination of liberal leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948

A man running a cheese business turns professional killer in the troubles plaguing Columbia in 1948

Drug-fueled conflict in Colombia leaves a young woman without her parents and with a destroyed village

Venezuela told by an international court to compensate the victims of the riots in the events of El Carcazo, Feb. 27, 1989

'92 coup in Venezuela with Hugo Chávez

3-DVD box set of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization (raided OPEC headquarters in 1975)

In an isolated village, Peruvian soldiers surrounded by terrorists

Ex-Peruvian war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder can't get his life together

Troubles under Japanese-Peruvian President Fujimoro of Peru

Times of the war against terrorism leads to violation of human rights, which has a profound impact on a young Peruvian woman

Effect of civil war between Shining Path and Peruvian villagers

Terrorist assault in Lima, Peru, 1996

Set in days of collapse under President Fujimoro of Peru

Set in the Chacos War (1932-1935) between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco region falsely thought to be rich in oil (Paraquay got 3/4s of the area)

Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia, pursued by a determined CIA agent

A reenactment of the 1967 government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners in Bolivia

Social struggle in Bolivia in the 1960s

17th century Chile

Military overthrow of Chile's leftist government

Search for a young American who disappeared during the aftermath of the 1973 US overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile

A determined communist filled with rage becomes an idealistic journalist, but also fights for Croatia against the Serbs

Fighting against the military dictatorship that followed the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile

Following two couples and their reactions to the 1973 overthrow of the Allende government in Chile

A 1907 massacre of miners in Chile is an allegory for the military coup of 1973

Autopsy recorder falls in love with an older show girl but soon finds himself in a love triangle during the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile

After the military coupe in Chile, the Swedish ambassador to Chile saves more than 1,300 lives by moving them to Sweden

The 1978 Beagle Conflict between Argentina and Chile over three islands south of Tierra del Fuego

Overthrow of Allende government leads to a split in friendship among school chums

In 1998 British authorities arrest the ex-dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet

Ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum

A love story set amidst civil war on Easter Island, Chile

Dictatorship

Becoming aware of just how bleak and hard life is under the Argentine military dictatorship, 1976-1983

Argentine ex-patriots in Paris

Argentine family pushed apart by politics reunites but they are still divided by politics

Continued political problems (the ones who disappeared) in modern Argentina

Increasing power of the police state, 1976-1983

A police inspector uncovers murders by a Latin American government using torture

A grandfather tries to get back his granddaughter whose parents just "disappeared"

A young woman's search for her true identity brings her to a knowledge of terrible things that happened in Argentina under the military dictatorship backed the the United States

12 students, arrested in La Plata for advocating changes in bus fares, just disappear

Missing persons in Argentina

One result of the Argentine military dictatorship was a group of youth with murdered relatives

Terrible effects of the military dictatorship’s murderous policies as seen by a small boy

Four men narrowly escape death at the hands of a military death squad during the Argentina military dictatorship

A family hiding from the government in rural Argentina

The Argentine government hires foreign mercenaries to eliminate leftists

A young boy has to lives a secret life for reasons not totally clear to him due to the Argentina military dictatorship

The 1978 Beagle Conflict between Argentina and Chile over three islands south of Tierra del Fuego

Poor Indian joins the Argentine navy and sees action in the Falklands War

Four young soldiers in the 1982 Falklands War

Argentine anti-war film about the Falklands War

British Royal Marines defend the Governor of the Falkland Islands

Bolivian immigrant in Argentina finds big challenges

Argentine middle-class hurt by the economic crisis as seen in the lives of average Argentines, including a Jewish family

In Uruguay assassination of an American who was sent to teach torture to the local police

Carlotta (1775-1830) was in 1785 officially married to the future John VI, King of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (reign 1816-1826)

War of Canudos in the late 1890's that was Brazil’s bloodiest civil war

During the 1930's Getúlio Vargas dictatorship (1930-1945) in Brazil, a left-wing writer finds himself in prison

German-born Jewish communist female pretends to be wife of Brazilian communist leader; both arrested during Vargas dictatorship and she is sent to Nazi Germany

The story of Olga Benario, a communist, Jewish-German who worked for a better life for people in Germany and in Brazil and the consequences she faced

Life amidst the minorities in Brazil and their deep involvement in Carnival

The life of a poor boy in Brazil

Modern day consequences of slavery and racism in Brazil

Young Brazilian goes to West Africa to round up slaves, starring Klaus Kinski

Chico Mendez attempts to protect the Brazilian forests and the rubber workers

To oppose the military dictatorship in 1969 young Brazilian leftists kidnap the American ambassador to Brazil

Set against the military dictatorship in Brazil, 1964-1985

A comedy set against the turmoil of the Brazilian military coup

During the military dictatorship in Brazil, a captain deserts the Brazilian Army and becomes one of the most prominent leaders of left-wing guerilla groups

Racism in Brazil

Hunger in the sertâo (backcountry) accompanied by violence between soldiers and peasants

Set in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the destitute local Indians stage an uprising against the wealthy fazenderos (owners of farming plantations)

A caravan act starts to go down hill as the old Brazil starts vanishing and the caravan comes to be replaced with movie theaters and television

Political corruption in Mexico

Set in 1930s when powerful oil companies appropriate vast amounts of Mexican land; farmer resists and tragedy ensues (banned until 1972)

A general sets himself up as a dictator in the state of Puebla; under leadership of his brother President Camacho (1940-1946)

A dedicated school teacher works in a poverty-stricken community, set during presidency of Miguel Alemán Valdés (1946-1952)

A group of university employees get into real trouble when they are mistaken for Communists

Family's physical security threatened by their sons' commitment to the 1968 student revolt

Post-1968 militant students have hard time adjusting in face of government repression and society's indifference (Carl J. Mora "Mexican Cinema")

Criticism of Mexican lower middle class values; clearly no new Mexican revolution can come from these shallow, sybaritic young people (Carl J. Mora "Mexican Cinema")

A kind of Mexican "Easy Rider"

Attempts to form labor union for the employees of maquiladoras (the mostly American-owned assembly plants along the Mexico border with USA)

Set against the background of the 1985 earthquake, story of a woman overwhelmed by urban existence; awarded two Best First Feature prizes in Latin American film festivals

Grandfather tries to retrieve ammunition for the guerilla movement behind government army lines

Three main stories interwoven dealing with emigration from Mexico (focus is on Tijuana)

To the Other Side; stories of Cuban boy, Moroccan girl and Mexican boy and the effects of emigration on their lives

Wet Backs; film made to discourage Mexicans from emigrating to the USA; Mexican illegals at mercy of exploiters and fearful of being discovered

Story of Dr. François Duvalier ("Papa Doc") President for Life of Haiti 1957-1971 responsible for 30,000 dead