Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab.
The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.
Tre fettere vokser opp i tøffe East Los Angeles. Men etter en bloding bandekrig splittes de og går ulike skjebner i møte. Paco blir politimann. Miklo havner i fengsel. Og Cruz blir narkotikamisbruker. Til tross for dette holder blondsbåndene dem sammen.
In a segregated Texas, five Mexican-American teenage caddies were prohibited from playing at the country club where they worked. Against all odds, they formed their own team, built a one-hole course in the fields, and won the 1957 Texas State championship. Based on a true story.
Den unge og lovende politimannen Jake Hoyt har ambisjoner om en plass i elitestyrken i LAs narkotikapoliti. Lederen for teamet, den erfarne og hardbarka offiseren Alonzo Harris, gir Jake en sjanse, en dag ute i feltet. Jake blir imidlertid snart tvunget til å stille spørsmål ved Harris' metoder, og politiets integritet.
Den inspirerende historien om Richard Montañez, en vaktmester hos Frito Lay som brukte den meksikanske kulturarven og oppveksten sin til å gjøre ikoniske Flamin' Hot Cheetos til en snacks som satte hele matbransjen på hodet og endte opp som et globalt fenomen.
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Tre gutter, oppvokst i slummen, danner i 1959 en gjeng. Det er Santana, JD og Mundo som mener at deres eneste mulighet til å slå seg fram her i verden er gjennom kriminalitet og vold. Men gjengen ender snart opp i en konflikt med en annen bande, noe som får et tragisk utfall. Og etter å ha gått ut og inn av forbedringsanstalter havner de tre i Folsom State Prison i en alder av 18. Men også innefor fengselsmurene lever gjengen og setter seg snart i respekt hos sine medfanger. Og langsomt vokser antallet. Opptagelsesprøven er gjerne en voldshandling eller mord. Etter 18 år innenfor murene har de tre små muligheter til å kunne fungere som normale individer i et normalt samfunn. Forsøk på å bryte ut av den kriminelle løpebane er forbundet med mange farer...
Two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso explore a new, unusual friendship and the difficult road to self-discovery.
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.
Bennie's daughter is on her way home for the holidays. However she surprises him by arriving with her brand new boyfriend - an uninvited gringo.
Years of working in the food industry have made Juana, a working-class Latina, a chef of speed and skill. Searching for financial stability, she stumbles into a high-energy, male-dominated Japanese cuisine kitchen. The new atmosphere re-ignites her passions for food and life and makes her hungry to get mixed up in the flavors of this new world.
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts in 2016.
Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon smuggler Frank Tanner is greedy and impulsive. When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do justice and avenge his honor, no matter what it takes.
Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah assembles a diverse group of eight American men to talk about their experience of race relations in the United States. The exchange is sometimes dramatic as they lay bare the pain that racism in the US has caused them.
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.
A young Mexican woman crosses the border in search of the American dream, only to instead find her worst nightmare lying within.