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Showing 1 - 10 of 10 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Guatemala


Americas in Transition

A concise and fast-paced history of the volatile forces at work in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in the 1980s.

Icarus Films | 1982 | 29 minutes

A Better Life

Returning to Todos Santos after 30 years, a look at the profound economic and social changes that have transformed this Guatemalan Mayan village.

Icarus Films | 2011 | 52 minutes

Brother Towns / Pueblos Hermanos

An uplifting story about Jupiter, Florida's humane response to an influx of day laborers from Jacaltenango, Guatemala.

Bullfrog Films | 2010 | 58 minutes

Devils Don't Dream!

Analysis of the CIA-sponsored 1954 coup in Guatemala.

Icarus Films | 1995 | 90 minutes

Footprints of Sorrow

Guatemalan war widows fighting for human rights.

Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 10 minutes

Mayan Voices: American Lives

Contrasts the experiences of Mayan families who came to Indiantown, Florida as refugees fleeing the violence in Guatemala in the early 1980s, with the struggles of those continuing to arrive in search of better lives.

Icarus Films | 1994 | 56 minutes

The Return of Elder Pingree

A lapsed Mormon retraces the steps he took 25 years ago in Guatemala as a devout missionary to search for the people who once trusted him with their religious faith

GOOD DOCS | 2020 | 84 minutes

Sacred Soil

The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes up to 1,000 bodies a year to identify them, and return the remains to their families.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 22 minutes

Todos Santos Cuchumatan: Report from a Guatemalan Village

This film provides an intimate look at everyday life in Todos Santos, a village in Guatemala's highlands, before the violence of the 1980s.

Icarus Films | 1982 | 41 minutes

Todos Santos: The Survivors

Demonstrates how the political turmoil of the 1980s affected this once quiet Guatemalan village.

Icarus Films | 1989 | 58 minutes