DACC Library: Hispanic and Latino Heritage: Streaming Videos

Streaming Videos

The streaming videos below are among those available in the DACC Library's streaming video databases:

Kanopy
Content: Video streaming service offering instructional videos like The Great Courses and over 30,000 films, including award-winning documentaries, rare titles, film festival favorites, indie and classic films, and world cinema.
Purpose: Supports education, entertainment, and cultural enrichment by providing access to a diverse and high-quality collection of instructional and cinematic content.
Academic Video Online
Content: Provides 68,000 video titles covering a wide range of subjects, including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, and music. It includes content from major producers like CBS, Universal Pictures, BBC Worldwide, PBS, Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, A&E Television Networks, and Sony Pictures Classics.
Purpose: Serves as a comprehensive resource for academic video content, offering diverse video materials across multiple subjects to enhance learning and support research in various fields.

Columbia

Gabo & Cinema - An Acclaimed Colombian Author and his Relationship to the Cinema
It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude to be produced. However, the prolific Colombian writer had strong ties to the movies. This film is a well documented contribution to the general study of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the voice of his friends and accomplices, the documentary takes us beyond his literary figure and immerses us in his cinematic one. Official Selection at the Havana Film Festival.
Ciro and Me - Ciro y yo
Ciro Galindo was born on August 29, 1952, in Colombia. Wherever he went, war always found him. His children were recruited by the armies of war; his family was repeatedly displaced; and his wife Anita, an indigenous woman, died of sadness. Foreign to the system, but a victim of the system, Ciro has led a heroic anonymous struggle to live life on his own terms.
Dario
Dario, a 17-year-old boy from Barranquilla, Colombia has a passion for dance. He loves his Carnival group but has to keep it a secret from his mother, who is afraid that he won't grow up to be a "real man". Instead, she forces him to spend the day working in his uncle's shop. Will he be able to dance in the Carnival parade? From Interfilm Berlin.

El Salvador

The Metal Stork - Salvadorian Civil War Victims Reconcile with Their Past
During El Salvador's civil war, rural kids Ana Lilian, Ricardo, and Blanca witnessed the murder of their families and grieved as a military helicopter determined their fate. Now, they try to reconnect with their long-lost families, hoping to reconcile their pasts and bring peace to the present.
Maria's Story - A Portrait Of Love And Survival In El Salvador's Civil War
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and helps plan a major nationwide offensive that led the FMLN into the historic peace pact of 1992.
The Offended - The Legacy of the Internal Armed Conflict in El Salvador
Features the director's charismatic father, Ruben Zamora, a key political leader and current Salvadorian Ambassador before the UN, who was captured and tortured by the National Police during the country's civil war. Illustrated with shocking archival footage, Zamora's testimony, as well as that of others who suffered a similar fate, the film provides insight into the scope of this horrific war during which tens of thousands of people were murdered. Winner of a Jury Mention at the Havana Film Festival and an Audience Award at the Costa Rica Film Festival.

Guatemala

Finding Oscar: Guatemala's Legacy of Violence and Justice
From Executive Producer Steven Spielberg comes an inspiring documentary that sheds light on a forgotten massacre during Guatemala's civil war. Nearly 30 years later, a forensic scientist and prosecutor help bring justice to those responsible... by finding the missing boy named Oscar, a boy who survived the massacre's horror - only to be raised by one of the soldiers who killed his family. Winner of the Viva El Cine - Audience Award at the Mill Valley Film Festival. Winner of Best Documentary, Best Director, and Best Editing at the Boston Film Festival.
When the Mountains Tremble: War and Revolution in Guatemala
A classic documentary on war and social revolution in Guatemala, which vigorously and persuasively describes the struggle of the largely indigenous peasantry against a legacy of state and foreign oppression. Centered on the experiences of Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu, a Maya K'iche indigenous leader, the film interweaves interviews, re-enactments, and stunning footage shot at great hazard into a wide-ranging yet cohesive epic canvas of the Guatemalan struggle. Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
I Will Be Murdered: Murder in Guatemala
A murder story, a love story and a thriller. In May 2009, Rodrigo Rosenberg, a wealthy, charismatic lawyer went cycling near his home in Guatemala City and was murdered. Nothing unusual there: Guatemala has a murder rate four times higher than Mexico's, worse in fact than Iraq's for civilians during the war. What was extraordinary is that Rosenberg knew, for certain, he was about to be killed. Winner of multiple film awards.

Mexico

The Tree of Knowledge - Contrasting Two Systems of Education in Mexico
Set in Huehuetla, Puebla, a Totonac Indian community in East Central Mexico, this documentary contrasts two systems of education. The public school system uses patriotic symbols to "integrate" Indian pupils into the national culture while teaching them to reject their own identity.
The Suffragists - Political Struggles for Women in Mexico
The story of Eufrosina Cruz, an indigenous woman from the Zapotec community of Santa Maria Quiegolani in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Las Sufragistas details her political struggle, as well as Mexican women's long fight for political power, beginning with the Revolutionary period. The film also considers challenges that women in power face.
Discover Latino History & The History of Mexico
Part of the Series: Discover Latino History. The fascinating and ancient land of Mexico is detailed in this dynamic program. Explore the rich history of Mexico from ancient civilizations through to modern day. Discover how the Aztec and Maya evolved, gain a better understanding of ancient Mexico and discover why America and Mexico were once at "war".

Venezuela

Beauty Factory - Competing for Miss Venezuela
Venezuela has won more international beauty pageants (18)* than any other country. What is it that makes Venezuelan beauty queens so special?
Five Factories - Economic Transformation in Venezuela
A penetrating look at the Bolivarian socio-economic project designed to challenge the dominant neo-liberal development model. Since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998, the Venezuelan government has implemented reforms to transform the nation into what Chavez and his supporters refer to as a form of democratic socialism.
Growing Change - A Journey Inside Venezuela's Food Revolution
After hearing about efforts in Venezuela to develop a more equitable as well as sustainable food and agriculture system, filmmaker Simon Cunich heads to Venezuela to investigate what we might learn about food sovereignty from the country's various initiatives to reduce the price of food by opening up urban land to community farming. So they may become urban gardeners, the nation is providing citizens with free seeds, tools, and other materials needed to organically grow food. From Green Planet Films.
The Broken Country (El País Roto) : Examining the Socioeconomic Crisis in Venezuela (2018)
This documentary plunges right into the epicenter of the current crisis in Venezuela through the voices of its true protagonists. The Broken Country tells five intertwined stories showing how the citizens are making their way through the remains of a run-down government.

Hispanic and Latino Heritage

Streaming Videos

Columbia

El Salvador

Guatemala

Mexico

Venezuela

Brazil