Culture

Latino Americans

LATINO AMERICANS is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape North America over the last 500-plus years and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S.

Episode 6: Peril and Promise Trailer

3m 23s

From Cuba a second wave of refugees to United States – the Mariel exodus – floods Miami . The same decade sees the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans (Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans)

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  • Episode 6: Peril and Promise Trailer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Episode 6: Peril and Promise Trailer

    S1 E6 - 3m 23s

    From Cuba a second wave of refugees to United States – the Mariel exodus – floods Miami . The same decade sees the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans (Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans)

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    Episode 4: The New Latinos Trailer

    S1 E4 - 3m 5s

    Until World War II, Latino immigration to the United States was overwhelmingly Mexican-American. Now three new waves bring large-scale immigration from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.

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    Episode 3: War and Peace Trailer

    S1 E3 - 3m 46s

    Service during the war allows Latinos to make unprecedented gains in civil rights but the journey is far from over.

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    Episode 5: Prejudice and Pride Trailer

    S1 E5 - 3m 23s

    In the 1960s and 1970s a generation of Mexican Americans, frustrated by persistent discrimination and poverty, find a new way forward, through social action and the building of a new “Chicano” identity.

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    Episode 2: Empire of Dreams Trailer

    S1 E2 - 2m 37s

    Widespread immigration to the U.S. from Latin countries begins – first with a small group from Cuba, then a larger one from Mexico. The U.S. helps liberate Cuba, and seizes Puerto Rico, in the brief Spanish American War; With the onset of the Great Depression, Immigrants encouraged in the 20s are deported en masse in the 30s.

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    Episode 1: Foreigners in Their Own Land Trailer

    S1 E1 - 2m 11s

    Manifest Destiny pushes the U.S west into the Mexican territories of the South West. Mariano Vallejo personifies the era of the Californio rancheros. Juan Seguín is a man caught between two worlds;Through the Mexican American War, the U.S. takes a full half of Mexico’s territory by 1848.

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