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Rick Tejada-Flores

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Known For

Fighting for Our Lives
6.5

Fighting for Our Lives is a 1975 documentary film produced and directed by Glen Pearcy. The film documents the striking of California grape workers from Coachella to Fresno as they negotiate for a United Farm Workers (UFW) contract in 1973. The film also depicts their non-violent struggle against police brutality on the picket lines. It was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Fighting for Our Lives

1975
Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint
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In the late 1950's, Jasper Johns emerged as force in the American art scene. His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete

Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint

1989
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up
5.0

This documentary chronicles half a century of hostile U.S.-Cuba relations. The film highlights decades of assassinations and sabotage at first backed by Washington, then ignored by the very government that launched a "war against terrorism."

Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up

2010
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
7.5

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It

2002
The Fight In The Fields
9.0

This documentary traces the history of the United Farmworkers Union and the life of its founder, Cesar Chavez, from his birth in Arizona, his education into organizing and non-violence, his formation of the union, to his death in 1993. It includes newsreel footage of the Delano grape boycott, Senate hearings conducted by Robert F. Kennedy, Chavez's fasts, encounters with growers and rival Teamsters. Recent interviews with Chavez family members, Ethyl Kennedy, Roger Cardinal Mahony, Governor Jerry Brown, and current and past UFW leaders round out the history and assessment of Chavez and the Union.

The Fight In The Fields

1997
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A documentary filmmaker travels to Bolivia to learn more about his father and his family's history.

My Bolivia: Remembering What I Never Knew

2016
Water for Life
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It explores the collision of water rights, Indigenous beliefs and resource extraction through the lives of three community leaders in Chile, Honduras and El Salvador.

Water for Life

2023