Daniel Valdez

Film Ritchie Valens’in gerçek hikayesi olup Ritchie’yi Paicoma’daki çocukluk yıllarından 17 yaşında bir rock yıldızı olarak uçakta ölümüne dek odak noktasında tutar.

Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda ve Michael Douglas, nükleer enerji kullanımının tehlikelerine ve televizyon haberlerinin gücüne dikkat çeken bu gerilim filminin başrollerinde. Alternatif enerji kaynakları hakkında raporlar hazırlayan gazeteci Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda), nükleer santralde bir kazaya tanık oluyor. Kazayı halka bildirmek isteyen Wells, kendini komploların içinde bulunca, kazayı istemeyerek de olsa gizli tutmak zorunda kalıyor. 1979 yılının en çok tartışılan filmlerinden biri olan The China Syndrome, ününü bir ölçüde filmin gösterime girmesinden tam on iki gün sonra gerçekleşen Three Mile Island nükleer felaketine borçlu.

Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!

Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads for Los Angeles, where he falls for union organizer Vanetta. Annie Mae seeks solace from local preacher Lenox Thomas, who eventually impregnates her. When Leroy catches wind, he heads home for a showdown with Lenox.

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.

Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty about the harsh realities of bigotry and the power of family in America of the 1950s. The coming-of-age Chicano drama is based on Tomas Rivera's semiautobiographical 1971 novella.

Corridos! Tales of Passion and Revolution is a one-hour celebration of Mexican-American music and culture. Long before television and radio, ‘Los Corridos’ were the singing voice of the people along, above and below the two thousand-mile U.S. Mexican border.

A young man is scammed by an engineer and an ex-hippie who promise to sell a glue that binds any surface he had invented and goes on a journey to the planet of the hippies

This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people--construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries, and cleaning women, Working is both an exploration of the individuals' occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams.

After being fired from his job, Guillermo and his wife Silvana decide to move to the countryside with their daughter Romina. Along the way, they stop at a farm where they are welcomed by Bjorn, an eccentric Swede. The host's lifestyle awakens a certain "flower power" nostalgia in the couple, evoking fond memories of their youth. What they don't know is that they are being "captured" by a cult.

27 yaşındaki Silvia Prieto kendi adını taşıyan başka kadınların da olduğunu keşfettiğinde kendi kimlik bilmecesini çözmeyi içeren tuhaf saplantısını diğer Silvia’larla daha da büyütür.

The film stars Felix Alvarez as Jesus Pelado Rasquachi, a young Mexican man who travels to the United States in search of work, suffering various unfortunate and comical events along the way.

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.