Explore compelling documentaries that illuminate the richness and complexity of Latino experiences. From urgent social issues to intimate personal journeys, our films spotlight voices that challenge perspectives, preserve culture, and inspire change.
Explore our curated selection of powerful documentaries that spotlight Latino voices, histories, and lived experiences.
500 YEARS tells the epic story that led Guatemala to a tipping point in their history from the genocide trial of former dictator General Rios Montt to the popular movement that toppled sitting President Otto Perez Molina. Focusing on universal themes of justice, racism, power and corruption, 500 YEARS tells the story from the perspective of the majority indigenous Mayan population, and their struggles in their country’s growing fight against impunity .
306 Hollywood is a magical realist documentary of two siblings who undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother’s house. They embark on a journey from her home in New Jersey to ancient Rome, from fashion to physics, in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind.
2501 MIGRANTS: A JOURNEY chronicles the personal experience of Oaxacan artist Alejandro Santiago, who learned the truth of the old saying that you can never go home again. After more than a decade living abroad, Santiago returned to the Zapotec Sierra seeking the village of his childhood. Instead, he found abandoned houses, empty streets, and deserted farm fields.
This portrait of the beloved Cuban singer Omara Portuondo explores her extraordinary life, from the stages of Havana’s famed nightclubs to her worldwide fame as part of the legendary Buena Vista Social Club. Following her as she performs for passionate fans from Cuba to New York to Tokyo, the film is a heartfelt celebration of an indomitable woman who has been a driving force in Afro-Cuban music for over half a century and, now in her nineties, shows no signs of slowing down.
In Mexico’s heartland, a community is mourning the deaths of three girls from leukemia, all in the span of a year.
Filmmaker Gonzalez profiles his father and stepmother who have contracted COVID-19.
Astrid finds a job cleaning subway cars at the peak of the pandemic in New York City.
Anel Medina is a nurse and one of 200,000 DACA recipients classified as essential workers.
Dulce Bueno is an EMT who works long nights during the difficult days of the pandemic.
Journalist Maria Hinojosa discusses her work reporting on the pandemic’s effect on Latino communities and her own bout with the virus.
Meet a councilwoman and a sanitation worker who are keeping the city of Chelsea running.