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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Season three opens seven months after the 2nd Mass arrived in Charleston. Tom has been elected as a political official of Charleston, but he has his hands full as the resistance continues to battle the alien invaders. The newly formed alliance Tom formed with a new alien race gains them their first real advantage in the war against the invading Espheni.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that leaves most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, survivors band together to begin the difficult task of fighting back against the aggressive aliens. Outside of Boston, history professor Tom Mason helps lead a small army named 2nd Massachusetts in the battle of their lives to preserve their families and what's left of mankind.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
9-year-old Teo never knew his father until he came to his house one day and took him away. They cross the Mexico-US border illegally with the help of some unscrupulous 'coyotes'. During the night they are attacked by bandits and Teo is separated from his father. He finds himself lost and alone until he befriends Chuy who lives in the poorest side of a nearby town. Along with his help they set out on the daunting task of reuniting Teo with his father....
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
A look at the lives of undocumented immigrants living in Brooklyn. Bicycle delivery guys, construction workers, dishwashers and deli workers, they work long hours six days a week and then savor their day of rest on the soccer fields of Sunset Park. Hardworking and responsible Jose is a bicycle delivery worker and the team's captain. When they make the finals, Jose and his teammates are thrilled. But his boss puts a damper on the celebration when his...
7) Clemente
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Un hombre cruza el Rio Grande con la esperanza de empezar una nueva vida en América. Cuando una inesperada redada lo separa de su familia, Clemente es forzado a abrirse camino de regreso. Su traumático viaje ilustra les motivaciones y peligros de muchas personas que enfrentan valerosamente esta desafiante odisea.
A man crosses the Rio Grande in hopes of starting a new life in America. When an unexpected raid separates him from his family, Clemente...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
For close to two decades, thousands of Central American migrants have lost their dreams, limbs and even their lives trying to illegally cross Mexico. Crossing Mexico is the insurmountable challenge that faces all those whose only goal is to reach the United States. The nightmare begins the moment they step onto Mexican soil. Here they must jump on to a cargo train known simply as "La Bestia" or "The Beast", an agonizing journey from which there is...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
La Tumba relata varios días de la vida de un muchacho sumido en las encrucijadas de la vida: qué puede satisfacer su vida?, el amor o el sexo?, el arte?, qué hacer para ser uno mismo?, preguntas todas ellas que ninguna generación puede eludir y que siempre siguen sin responder. En Ciudades desiertas, ambientada en el fantasmal pero no menos atractivo Estados Unidos, los protagonistas se encuentran para perderse y, más allá de la visión satírica...
10) Cage fight
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
Guerrero, an illegal immigrant, crosses the border into the United States from Mexico, looking for his family. After arriving in San Diego, Gino Santoro organize crime boss, offers him a job and help to find his family. There is one condition, fight in the Cage Fight Tournament, were only the strong will survive.
11) Mi vida dentro
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
A heartbreaking film that takes the case of an innocent woman whose only crime was living in the United States without any papers. It's a daring approach to exposing the imperfections of the American justice system, and a powerful story about the immigration situation. A moving theme on an experience that is sadly close to many.
Sumario en español: Rosa es una mexicana que en 1999, a los 17 años, migró ilegalmente a Austin, Texas. En enero de...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while Rosario's mother cares for Carlitos in Mexico. Mother and son face daunting challenges and obstacles to reunite, but are sustained by their constant hope of finally being together again.
13) Avatar
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
Description
Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...
14) Shantaram
Author
Series
Shantaram volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
Ivan, a 14-year old boy, lives with his uncle Jaime, a mediocre dealer of used car parts. Both of them dream of a better life and are stashing away their money in order to emigrate illegally to Chicago. When Jaime realizes that he needs much more money than he expected in order to pay the 'Coyote' that will help them cross the border, he decides to introduce his nephew into the world of car-part theft.
17) Which way home
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
A feature documentary that follows unaccompanied child migrants on their journey through Mexico as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like Olga and Freddy, 9-year old Hondurans, who are trying to reach their parents in the US. Children like Jose, a 10-year old El Salvadoran, who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center, and Kevin, a streetwise 14-year- old Honduran, whose mother hopes that...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Para Francisco Cantú, la frontera está en la sangre: su madre, una guardaparques e hija de un inmigrante mexicano, lo crió en los matorrales del suroeste. Atormentado por el paisaje de su juventud, Cantú se une a la Patrulla Fronteriza. Él y sus compañeros son enviados a regiones remotas atravesadas por rutas de drogas y corredores de contrabando, donde aprenden a rastrear a otros humanos bajo un sol abrasador y noches frías. Arrastran a los...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Como tantas millones de personas, Nelson A. Castillo llé a los Estados Unidos de la mano de su familia, en busca de una mejor vida. Su experiencia y luego su formación como abogado de inmigración se han combinado en La Tarjeta Verde para brindar una fuente de información clara y accesible para los inmigrantes que quieren llegar a conseguir la residencia permanente en este pás.
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