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Dolores is a 2017 American documentary directed by Peter Bratt, on the life of Chicana labor union activist Dolores Huerta. It was produced by Brian Benson for PBS, with Benjamin Bratt and Alpita Patel serving as consulting producers and Carlos Santana as executive producer.
1 Σεπ 2017 · One of the film’s more provocative aspects is the way it links U.S. opposition to labor organizations with the legacy of slavery, linking the treatment of predominantly Mexican-American farm workers in California to the plight of African-Americans from Reconstruction to the present.
Directed by Peter Bratt. A deft and compelling documentary about one of America's premier Latino labor leaders and civil rights activists. 2017 S&P Award Winner. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. "We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for."
Peter Bratt's documentary Dolores is a portrait of activist icon Dolores Huerta, who tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice.
Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice, soon becomes a fight for gender equality within the same union she is eventually forced to leave.
Through beautifully woven archival footage and interviews from contemporaries and from Dolores herself, now an octogenarian, the film sets the record straight on one of the most effective and undervalued civil and labor rights leaders in modern U.S. history. Watch trailer.
Raising 11 children while wrestling with gender bias, union defeat and victory, and nearly dying after a San Francisco Police beating, Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions to co-found...
