Arcadia Public Library

A Mexican-American teenage farmworker dreams of graduating high school. When ICE raids her community, it threatens to separate her family and forces her to become her family's breadwinner. FRUITS OF LABOR is a lyrical, coming-of-age documentary feature about adolescence, nature and how ancestors paved the way. Director Emily Cohen Ibáñez documents life guided by the spirit world through her hardships and joys in modern America.

Fall, 2004–Spring, 2005: Congressmen Kolbe and Flake's reward for their innovative 2003 guestworker bill: tough primary challenges in 2004, facing determined opponents who capitalize on Arizona anger over "amnesty for illegals." The two very different campaigns, both hot and colorful, leave the winners vowing to do something about immigration. Next winter, their staffers team up with staff for Kennedy, McCain, and Democrat Luis Gutierrez. Can they...

For years pupils and students have been protesting in Chile against the privatization of the educational system. Thousands demonstrated for their right to free education. By 2012 the protests began to decrease. Today only one school in Santiago is still occupied. The violent raiding of the school by the police could happen at any time, so who are these pupils and what are they demanding?

In Hong Kong today, everyone knows someone who’s leaving. After years of political upheaval and heavy-handed intervention from Beijing, the exodus is hardly a surprise. With exclusive access, we follow the one-way journey of several families as they uproot from HK and venture into the unknown. We witness how they struggle physically and emotionally with the decision. We travel with them and discover what lies on the other side. And we bear witness...

THE RIGHT GIRLS is a documentary film which follows three young transgender women who trek across Mexico as part of the high-profile migrant caravan of 2018. Teaming up in southern Mexico with the goal of reaching the U.S. border, the girls find themselves hitching rides and jumping trucks, anything to complete the long journey north. Their LGBTQ status continues to make them targets. Adding to their struggle to find food is the constant challenge...

How lies about election fraud have made their way to the center of American politics. With ProPublica, FRONLINE examines the hidden origins of disinformation about the 2020 election and the handful of people behind some of the core narratives of fraud.

From the producing team that won an Academy Award for Born Into Brothels comes Who Does She Think She Is?, a film that examines some of the most pressing issues of our time: parenting and work, partnering and independence, economics and art. This gorgeously photographed film follows five women artists as they navigate the economic, psychological, and spiritual challenges of making work outside the elite art world. From Hawaii's Big Island to the suburbs...

The compelling story of Harry Markopolos and his ten year struggle to expose the harrowing truth behind the infamous Madoff scandal. Throughout the decade long investigation, Markopolos pieced together a chain of white-collar predators consisting of bankers, lieutenants, and henchmen, all linked to the devastating Ponzi scheme. With danger apparent, Markopolos and his loyal team relentlessly continued to pursue the frightening truth. Finding himself...

A documentary re-introducing the radical student activists from the late 60s, ex-leaders of The Weather Underground movement Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. For decades the government and press have tried their best to silence them. WAR / PEACE serves as an historical reminder of what happened the last time a group of young minds planned to take over an unpopular government in Washington. WAR / PEACE asks how can we make a change if peaceful demonstration...

January, 2006: The House just passed the toughest anti-amnesty, enforcement-only immigration bill in history. Immigrants feel targeted, and 'Sensenbrenner' (the bill's sponsor) becomes a nasty household word for Latinos. Finally the Senate tackles immigration reform. Millions of people take to the streets all over the US, marching until a bipartisan compromise modeled on last year's Kennedy-McCain bill goes to the Senate floor. But leaders in both...