Immigrant Border Films 101+
All genres; in no particular order...
Most relate to Mexico-US border, but some Canada-US border related as well.
Not available here for this list is "The Border Film Project" [please do an internet search]; provides dynamic pictorial perspectives...
Also consider searching for "Animas Perdidas", or "Lost Souls", depicting two brothers, both U.S. military veterans, raised in the U.S. since childhood, whom are deported from the only country they knew, and subsequently abandoned by their country, and their former brothers-in-arms, only to suffer tragic consequences...
Also missing:
'La Ciudad' [1998, David Riker] [UPDATE:no longer missing]
'The 800 Mile Wall' [2009]
'Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness' [2009?]
'One Border, One Body' [?]
'Strangers No Longer' [?]
'The Invisible Chapel' [?]
'Frontier Youth' [?]
Most relate to Mexico-US border, but some Canada-US border related as well.
Not available here for this list is "The Border Film Project" [please do an internet search]; provides dynamic pictorial perspectives...
Also consider searching for "Animas Perdidas", or "Lost Souls", depicting two brothers, both U.S. military veterans, raised in the U.S. since childhood, whom are deported from the only country they knew, and subsequently abandoned by their country, and their former brothers-in-arms, only to suffer tragic consequences...
Also missing:
'La Ciudad' [1998, David Riker] [UPDATE:no longer missing]
'The 800 Mile Wall' [2009]
'Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness' [2009?]
'One Border, One Body' [?]
'Strangers No Longer' [?]
'The Invisible Chapel' [?]
'Frontier Youth' [?]
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- DirectorTommy Lee JonesStarsTommy Lee JonesBarry PepperDwight YoakamRanch foreman Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsChris CooperElizabeth PeñaStephen MendilloWhen the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
- DirectorAndrew JamesStarsBrenda AcostaGuy AdamsMerced ArceiWelcome to America. The U.S. government has mandated the construction of a 2,000-mile long wall along the U.S./Mexico border and many Americans sport bumper stickers on their vehicles with slogans like, "Stop the Invasion." Una Vida Mejor (A Better Life) follows three families, each participating in the American experience, and each searching for their own version of the American dream. Two of the families have crossed the Mexican border illegally, and entered the United States in the midst of this social and political unrest. The film beautifully weaves the lives of these families together, forming a uniquely American tapestry of love, loss, and hardship. As the drama unfolds, the individual humanity behind the stark statistics and political rhetoric of the immigration issue is revealed and we find that the border between "right" and "wrong" is hopelessly blurred.
- DirectorPatricia RiggenStarsEugenio DerbezKate del CastilloAdrian AlonsoAfter his grandmother passes away, a young Mexican boy illegally travels across the border to search for his undocumented mother living and working in the U.S.
- DirectorAlejandro SpringallStarsDolores HerediaDemián BichirAlberto EstrellaWhen St. Jude appears to her to tell her that her daughter is still alive, Esperanza goes on a search to find her daughter.
- DirectorDavid RikerStarsAnthony RiveraJoseph RiganoMiguel MaldonadoThe stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
- DirectorGustavo LozaStarsCarmen MauraHéctor SuárezVanessa BaucheThree separate stories of children from different places seeking to find their missing fathers.
- DirectorChristopher ZallaStarsJesús OchoaArmando HernándezJorge Adrián EspíndolaA Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.
- DirectorGregory NavaStarsZaide Silvia GutiérrezDavid VillalpandoErnesto Gómez CruzAfter their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.
- DirectorCarlos CarreraStarsAna de la RegueraAsur ZagadaMarco PérezThe true story of the border town of Juarez, Mexico where since the mid-1990s thousands of women have gone missing or turned up as sun-burnt corpses in the desert. Can new police captain Blanca Bravo stop the savagery?
- DirectorEmma BailinSarah BailinImagine, three thousand boats, filled with 125,000 people, sailing over a small 90-mile patch of sea that might as well have spanned thousands of miles. On this sea, refugees sailed between two worlds. The outcome of those crossings not only had repercussions for the lives of the refugees, but for Arkansans as well. This is their story. This documentary is about the Cubans interned at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, in 1980, as a result of the Cuban Mariel Boat Lift. It describes life at the camp but its focus is how the political landscape of Arkansas and the nation affected, and were affected by, the Cubans' internment.
- DirectorLane Shefter BishopStarsShawn BernalMarc BossleyJames C. BurnsLos Jornaleros presents the interwoven stories of three young Hispanic men who come to this country to pursue te American dream and instead end up struggling as day-laborers.
- DirectorGustavo Hernández PérezStarsJesus PerezMartin MoralesJeff LeBeauThe Mexican Dream, is a Tragic comedy about the longings and delusions that lure so many illegal immigrants to this country. It's a fractured story about a naive, impulsive, but above all else passionate man, one who will do anything for his family, who will stop at nothing to live his dream. It is a look into one of the major social issues of the 21st century, immigration. Ajileo journeys from his home in Zapotitlan de Salinas, a village in southern Mexico, makes a perilous border crossing through the desert, and comes to Hollywood, where everything and nothing is as he dreamed it would be.
- DirectorLuis Antonio RodriguezStarsMoses ArcherGonzalo DiazCintia FloresAn ironic story that takes a Border Patrol Agent, Angela Rubio through many obstacles and challenges to avoid Immigration. Angela gets hit on the head by a couple of drug smugglers and and is left unconscious. She is helped by an illegal immigrant Don Pablo, who is headed back to Mexico because of lack of work in the U.S. Angela not knowing who she or remembering anything from her past is convinced by Pablo to go back to Mexico. In mist of confusion she thinks she is an Illegal alien. It only gets more confusing when she and Don Pablo cross back to the U.S. in search of a better life and start running from the U.S. Border Patrol.
- DirectorRic DupontStarsShirley RumierkLuis BordonadaOmar LeyvaTells the stories of a group of people in Ciudad de Juarez with one thing in common: they are all looking for a better life for them and their families. For many, that better life waits just a short walk away in the United States.
- DirectorBrian PetersenStarsBrian PetersenBrett Hernandez SpackmanCarley AdamsAfter their Mexican friend gets deported, two young Americans decide to begin smuggling illegal immigrants into Arizona for profit.
- DirectorWayne KramerStarsRobert DonavanMonte GrixMichèle Lawrence
- DirectorAnna BodenRyan FleckStarsAlgenis Perez SotoJose RijoWalki CuevasDominican baseball star Miguel "Sugar" Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.Latino athlete in Iowa...
- DirectorRené Cardona IIIStarsFabiola CampomanesJosé Luis FrancoPatricio CastilloAs a young reporter, Valentina (Fabiola Campomanes) finds out that one of her childhood friends has been killed, her investigation leads to the unsolved murders of more than 300 women in the city of Juarez, Mexico.
- DirectorHerbert J. BibermanStarsJuan ChacónRosaura RevueltasWill GeerMexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph."The Only Blacklisted American Film"...
- DirectorCary Joji FukunagaStarsPaulina GaitanMarco Antonio AguirreLeonardo AlonsoA young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.
- DirectorMark A. RussellStarsMiguel CastroRichard AzurdiaChristine CarloTwo Mexican brothers get smuggled over the border to try and find their "America Dream".Recommended!
- DirectorRigoberto PérezcanoStarsHarold TorresAlicia LagunaSonia CouohAndres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with those he meets.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsPilar PadillaAdrien BrodyElpidia CarrilloTwo Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.
- DirectorJeremy S. LevineLandon Van SoestWalking the Line offers a harrowing view of the chaos along the U.S.-Mexico border through private citizens who are taking the law into their own hands. Following a growing movement of anti-immigrant vigilantes, some clad in fatigues and armed with semi-automatic weapons, the documentary provides a scathing critique of our failed border policy.
- DirectorCarlos HagermanJuan Carlos RulfoStarsJulio Cesar CastilloLuis CastilloMaricela DzulAn intimate and discerning depiction of the impact of migration on families and villages left behind by loved ones who have traveled North for work.
- DirectorCheech MarinStarsCheech MarinDaniel SternPaul RodriguezWhen an L.A. born American citizen is mistaken for a Mexican illegal alien and deported to Mexico, he has to do everything he can to get across the border.
- DirectorSergio ArauStarsCaroline AaronTony AbatemarcoMelinda AllenWhen a mysterious fog surrounds the boundaries of California, there is a communication breakdown and all the Mexicans disappear, affecting the economy and the state stops working missing the Mexican workers and dwellers.
- DirectorLance HoolStarsTom BerengerJoaquim de AlmeidaDaniela RomoJohn Riley, an Irish immigrant soldier recruited in the American army during the Mexican-American War faces anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic bigotry from his fellow servicemen and defects to the Mexican army.Unique historical look at border immigration and the "San Patricios" during the The War of 1847...highly recommended!
- DirectorJaime SalvadorStarsSara GarcíaDomingo SolerÁngel GarasaFictional story about the Escuadron 201 de Caza (201st Mexican Fighter Squadron), which participated in military campaigns in the Phillipines during WWII. It focuses primarily on two brothers, one who has a promising future as a doctor, who volunteer for this unit after Mexico declares war on Germany after the sinking of Mexican merchants by U-boats. The story also follows another young man, the son of a Spanish immigrant baker. He volunteers to pay what he feels is an unpaid debt to their new adopted country.WWII film depicting lives of Mexican Air Force mustering, training in Texas, serving and and fighting in the Pacific theatre of war; potential remake has been rumored... Highly recommended!
- DirectorArturo Pérez Torres
- DirectorLuis EstradaStarsDamián AlcázarJoaquín CosioErnesto Gómez CruzAfter being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
- DirectorSebastián HiriartStarsGabino RodríguezRogelio MedinaAlejandra EspañaA shepherd leaves behind his life in Mexico after coming across a mysterious key chain. Will the key chain lead him to his own paradise or will the journey be all for nothing?
- DirectorRaja MenonStarsAkshay KumarNimrat KaurKumud MishraWhen Iraq invades Kuwait in August 1990, a callous Indian businessman becomes the spokesperson for more than 170,000 stranded countrymen.
- DirectorJavier ChapaSteve GarciaStarsAdam JacoboRafael AmayaKaryme LozanoPepe travels to America with Santo (The Patron Saint of Immigrants) in search of his grandmother's dying wish..."The Mexican Dream."
- CreatorMark HentemannStarsHank AzariaNicholas GonzalezJudah FriedlanderFollow two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States-Mexico border and how these two families inevitably cross and are bound by friendship and conflict.
- DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsAdam SandlerTéa LeoniPaz VegaA woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family whose patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
- DirectorIrvin WillatStarsTom KeeneLuana WaltersBudd BusterIn 1914 Mexico, the revolution, led by Pancho Villa, is preventing many Americans from getting their mined-in-Mexico silver across the American border. Tom Kenyon, American manager of the deVargas mine, La Paloma, and his assistant, Tequila, try yo send a shipment through the barricaded lines of both Villa and renegade-army General Barranca. The latter's men get into a skirmish with Villa's forces, and, while they fight it out, Tom hides the silver. Denny deVargas, unknown to his family and to Tom, has joined forces with the outlaw Barrance and has promised to get the silver shipment for him. Denny is captured and imprisoned by Villa. Tom, in his effort to rescue the worthless Denney, is caught by Captain Morales, a Villa aide, who is conspiring against his leader. Morales frees Denny to continue his services for Barranca, and Tom is put in Denny's cell. Sentenced to a firing-squad death by Villa, Tom is released following an appeal by his mother. He is then captured by Barranca's men but is rescued through Tequila's efforts. Tom, who can't seem to avoid anybody, is then embroiled anew with attackers sent by Morales. Somehow, Tom saves the silver and rides to the waiting arms of Dolores de Vargas, his sweetheart.
- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsMarco LeonardiLumi CavazosRegina TornéWhen tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
- DirectorDavid RikerStarsAbbie CornishGeoffrey RivasAustin WestA young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.
- DirectorDaniel SekulichStarsDaniel SekulichBorderLine explores the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks as experienced by ordinary people living and working along the Canada-U.S. border. The film follows award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist Daniel Sekulich as he treks across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific on both sides of the international line. Sekulich and his intrepid crew seek out an assortment of characters along their journey and describe how their lives have been altered by 9/11. They encounter fishermen, shop owners, truckers, Native leaders, immigrants, border officials, former RCMP officers, and anyone else with a story to tell. BorderLine takes viewers on a scenic and thought-provoking, cross-country journey that reveals the ever changing relationship between Canada and the United States in the post 9/11 era. The film explores the significant changes that have occurred and considers how recent initiatives like the Beyond The Border agreement threaten our privacy, civil liberties, and perhaps even Canadian sovereignty during the next decade.
- DirectorJim SheridanStarsPaddy ConsidineSamantha MortonDjimon HounsouA family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
- DirectorJames CottenStarsRay LiottaAndy GarciaEsai MoralesThe unstable new kingpin of a Tijuana drug cartel is targeted by an assassin for elimination.
- DirectorRyan NobleStarsDustin ChittumAndrew Wade CulpChristina Jo'LeighA marine just back from the Middle East, reunites with two high school buddies to form a de facto militia and travel to the U.S./Mexico border in Arizona to attempt to "guard" the country from the "invaders" from the south.
- DirectorHumberto CastroStarsJon Erik CastroLorraine SanchezHumberto CastroThree filmmakers working on a mental health awareness documentary project during the COVID-19 pandemic find themselves trapped in a deadly situation after arriving at a former police detective's secluded house.
- DirectorBrett TolleyDying to Get In provides an intimate perspective of border crossing and the people who cross. The U.S./Mexican border, dubbed a "gauntlet of death" by documentarian Brett Tolley, is infiltrated first-hand in this gritty examination. In his effort to further understand the relationships between developed and developing countries, the viewer is pulled deep into the Arizona desert where so many have already perished.
- DirectorRichard GlatzerWash WestmorelandStarsEmily RiosJesse GarciaChalo GonzálezAs Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
- DirectorRobert RedfordStarsRubén BladesRichard BradfordSonia BragaThe accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsWilliam BoydAndy ClydeJay KirbyWhen three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.
- DirectorDan DeVivoJoseph MathewA collection of personal accounts stemming from Arizona's illegal immigration crisis.
- DirectorAri PalosStarsCurtis AcostaJose GonzalezMellanie HubertDisenfranchised high school seniors become academic warriors and community leaders in Tucson, Arizona's embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to eliminate the program.
- DirectorTom McCarthyStarsRichard JenkinsHaaz SleimanDanai GuriraA college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
- DirectorLuis ArguetaIt is at once an epic story of survival, hope, and humble aspirations, of triumph, defeat, and rebirth. The face of immigration is revealed through the gripping personal stories of the individuals, the families, and the town that survived the most brutal, most expensive, and the largest immigration raid in the history of the United States.
- DirectorBrian GingStarsNoam ChomskyJim GilchrestBeyond Borders moves past the headlines and takes an in-depth look at the hot-button issues of legal and illegal immigration.
- DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsCatalina Sandino MorenoGuilied LopezOrlando TobónA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.
- DirectorAri PalosStarsGonzalo AyalaHoracio AyalaJuan AyalaFollows Marcelo Ayala and his family, recently arrived from Mexico, as they find their way culturally and economically in the US.
- DirectorMarco KreuzpaintnerStarsKevin KlineKathleen GatiPaulina GaitanAdriana, 13, is kidnapped in Mexico City by Russian sex traffickers. Her criminal 17 y.o. brother starts looking for her. Across the border in Texas, he gets help from a cop.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsMoritz BleibtreuChristiane PaulMehmet KurtulusA young, insecure teacher embarks on a journey through Europe to Turkey, where he wants to see a woman again whom he believes to be his fate.
- DirectorWilliam GroodyStarsVictor CarmonaFred Licon
- DirectorWayne KramerStarsHarrison FordAshley JuddRay LiottaCrossing Over is about illegal aliens of many nationalities in the Los Angeles area and the authorities and individuals dealing with them.
- DirectorEmilio AragónStarsRobert DuvallJeremy IrvineAngie CepedaAfter being forced to sell his family ranch to developers, a financially strapped, but proud senior citizen, and his estranged grandson, find themselves targeted by drug dealers in search of a missing money bag.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsJosé SanchoLuis TosarLissete MejíaIn the small town of Santa Eulalia, singles organize a party attended by a coach of women marriages. Damián, Alfonso and Carmelo will seek to establish a relationship with Patricia, a Dominican girl, Marirrosi, a nurse from Bilbao and Milady, a young Cuban.
- DirectorLourdes PortilloThis gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border
- DirectorBilly Bob ThorntonStarsMatt DamonPenélope CruzHenry ThomasTwo Texas cowboys head to Mexico in search of work, but soon find themselves in trouble with the law after one of them falls in love with a wealthy rancher's daughter.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettGael García BernalTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.
- DirectorSaul LandauStarsFidel CastroDanny GloverSaul LandauAward-winning director Saul Landau embarks on an in-depth exploration of Miami-Havana politics through the story of the Cuban 5, a group of spies sent by the Castro government to infiltrate right-wing terrorist organizations in Miami. When the spies turned over evidence of US-based terrorism to the FBI, they themselves were arrested, tried, and convicted in Florida courts while the confessed anti-Castro terrorists live freely in Florida.
- DirectorLucy WalkerKaren HarleyJoão JardimStarsVik MunizOn the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
- DirectorUxval GochezStarsLeon KrauzeGaspar OrozcoIs the story of the quiet drama that unfolds in a typical Mexican town; one that is indigenous, bilingual, and has the stoicism to survive the gradual disintegration of families caused by men migrating to the United States. Life stories showed tell us about the collateral damage caused by poorly conducted government programs and chronic unemployment. Although speakers aren't economic experts, those interviewed irrefutably present the terrible consequences that the North American Free Trade Agreement has had on their lives.
- DirectorBruno de AlmeidaStarsJohn SaylesMarcia Gay HardenRita MorenoShot in Acapulco in the summer of 2002, this documentary explores the making of John Sayles' "Casa de los Babys" as well as the theme of adoption in foreign countries and the social-economic reality in Latin America.
- DirectorNatalia Almada
- DirectorHank McCuneStarsLloyd BridgesNancy GatesBarton MacLaneHard on his luck, a fishing charter boat captain unwisely gets involved with a crime ring smuggling illegal Mexicans into California.
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsAitana Sánchez-GijónTiaré ScandaJesús OchoaA woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
- DirectorKevin KnoblockThe volatile issue of illegal immigration and the continued conflict taking place at the U.S.-Mexico border are brought to life in the documentary BORDER WAR. Border War takes viewers into the smuggling tunnels of Nogales, Arizona, to the migrant halfway houses for deportees in Tijuana, Mexico as well as the Congressional corridors of power in the nation's capitol.
- DirectorGareth EdwardsStarsScoot McNairyWhitney AbleMario Zuniga BenavidesSix years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
- DirectorCourtney HuntStarsMelissa LeoMisty UphamCharlie McDermottA mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?
- DirectorAllison AndersDean LentKurt VossStarsChris D.Chris ShearerDave AlvinTwo musicians and a roadie take money that is owed to them from a job. One flees to Mexico, and everyone has questions.
- DirectorCarlos GaviriaStarsPaola BaldionAna María ArangoHéctor DurangoAfter their grandfather dies, cousins Jairo and Marina go to Colombia to discover their ancestral land and learn more about their heritage in an attempt to reclaim their grandpa's legacy.
- DirectorCaleb CollierDan RogeLeaving La Floresta is a documentary that chronicles the forced displacement of one Colombian family. Abelardo and Olga were farmers in the Colombian countryside, growing crops like yucca, plantains, and cacao (chocolate) to support their family. In 2010, their crops were destroyed by U.S. spray planes that were targeting coca (cocaine) crops. After their crops were destroyed, they took their five children, packed up everything they owned, and journeyed to the city slums in search of work and shelter. This film tells the story of this family and challenges the viewer to think through this U.S. drug policy known as Plan Colombia. This is the story of one family who lost everything and is now searching for a place to call home.
- DirectorEthan ManiquisRobert RodriguezStarsDanny TrejoMichelle RodriguezRobert De NiroAfter being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
- DirectorGloria La MortePaola MendozaStarsPaola MendozaSebastian VilladaLaura MontanaNewly-arrived to New York City and deserted by her husband Gabriel, Mariana must find a way, to financially and emotionally provide for her family in a strange city where she barely speaks the language.
- DirectorJamie MeltzerLa Caminata recreates the experience of Mexicans crossing the border with the US. Participants don't actually cross, but learn how hard it is for those who do, in the hope of dissuading them from attempting it.
- DirectorNash BhattStarsTony BlackNash BhattOmar AlcarazViolence consumed their destiny.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsPeter UstinovPamela TiffinJonathan WintersIn the 1960s, a screwy Mexican General and his troops cross into Texas to re-capture the Alamo from the Gringos but they face opposition from the local police, the National Guard and the U.S. State Department.
- DirectorCharlie MinnStarsDaniel BorundaCharles BowdenHoward CampbellThe greatest human rights disaster in the world is happening 10 feet from the U.S.A. An investigation of the political, social, and economic forces that have left tens of thousands of innocent Mexicans dead.
- StarsRichard WebbRico AlanizJohn IndrisanoDon Jagger is a Border Patrol deputy chief who is a troubleshooter from to various locations. His assignments take him from the Florida Everglades to Washington logging camps in this syndicated series.
- DirectorAlmudena CarracedoMade in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a mega-trendy clothing retailer. In intimate verité style, Made in L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman's life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice.
- DirectorRoy GermanoBased on over 700 interviews in Mexican towns where about half the population has left to work in the United States, The Other Side of Immigration asks why so many Mexicans come to the U.S. and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind. Through an approach that is both subtle and thought-provoking, filmmaker Roy Germano provides a perspective on undocumented immigration rarely witnessed by American eyes, challenging audiences to imagine more creative and effective solutions to the problem. "There are inevitably real people behind the strident slogans and ideological labels in today's immigration debate. Roy Germano's The Other Side of Immigration does more than any other work to give people otherwise disparaged as 'threatening' and 'illegal' a human face and to reveal the devastating personal effects of U.S. immigration and economic policies on our closest neighbors." - Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
- DirectorCharlie MinnStarsCharles BowdenHoward CampbellJulián Leyzaola PérezA perception shattering view of the violence in Mexico which has killed over 100,000 of the nation's citizens over the course of six years.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsCharles BoyerOlivia de HavillandPaulette GoddardStopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
- DirectorMax KlevenStarsDarlanne FluegelMichael J. MooreJohn VernonAn undercover cop infiltrates an illegal labor racket on a remote, Texas/Mexican border farm. After falling for the farm owner's mistress, the two discover the tables have been turned and they are the hunted.
- DirectorVictor A. MartinezRyan SchaferStarsCoyoteRobert CremoHenry CuellarPepe Serna, our host, and familiar veteran actor takes us through the issues involved in the debate of undocumented immigration. Laredo, Texas has the largest inland (import & export) trade route in the USA, and is located right across the Rio Grande from Nuevo Laredo in Mexico. The combined population of the two Laredos is approximately 750,000. Most residents have family ties between the two cities. Laredoans express their views on undocumented immigration through their unique perspective: directly from the front line. Currently we have over twelve million undocumented immigrants living and working here in the United States; many of them crossed at this border region. Among the topics discussed are the border fence/wall debate, immigration laws, and racism. This documentary strives to make one reexamine their views on the topic of undocumented immigration.
- DirectorPatricia CardosoStarsAmerica FerreraLupe OntiverosIngrid OliuIn East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
- DirectorAndrés Tapia-Urzua
- DirectorCary Joji FukunagaStarsNicolas CalzadaDomingo Jose Cruz DelgadoOliver CruzdazaIn May 2003 a refrigerated truck carrying more than 80 illegal immigrants from the Mexican border drove into the heartland of Texas. A deadly combination of heat and overcrowding lead to tragedy. This is a story of that journey.
- DirectorMark BeckerStarsArturo AriasCarmelo Muñiz SanchezA troubadour returns home to scratch out a living in Mexico after years of trying to get ahead in San Francisco.
- DirectorChristopher LeitchStarsTelly SavalasDanny De La PazEddie AlbertUS Border Patrol agent Frank Cooper is keeping a fine balance between doing his duty and empathizing with illegal Mexican border jumpers in 1970s California.