AMERICAS

total length: 1 hour per video, 10 videos in series
language: English
subtitles: no, CC available
genre: documentary
© 1993

The people of South and Central America reflect on their lives, their history and societies in AMERICAS. This intimate look at contemporary Latin America examines issues confronting the entire region by focusing on individual communities.  Campesinos, city dwellers, artists, government officials, revolutionaries and others bring forth the multi-layered diversity of the region. 

Individual Videos in 10-part series:

1. The Garden of Forking Paths: Dilemmas of National Development (Argentina)
2. Capital Sins: Authoritarianism and Democratization (Brazil)
3. Continent on the Move: Migration and Urbanization (Mexico)
4. Mirrors of the Heart: Race and Identity (Bolivia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic)
5. In Women's Hands: The Changing Roles of Women (Chile)
6. Miracles Are Not Enough:  Continuity and Change in Religion (Brazil, Nicaragua)
7. Builders of Images: Latin American Cultural Identity: Latin American Cultural Identity (Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
8. Get Up, Stand Up: Problems of Sovereignty (Colombia, Jamaica, Panama)
9. Fire in the Mind: Revolutions and Revolutionaries (El Salvador, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua)
10. The Latin American and Caribbean Presence in the U.S. (Southern California, Miami, New York City)

Produced by WGBH/Boston, and Central Television Enterprises for Channel 4, UK.  ISBN: 1-55946-744-4 to order video series and related materials, call  1-800-LEARNER.