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90 Miles

by Juan Carlos Zaldívar

Premiere: July 29, 2003

Cuban American filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldívar, once a 13-year-old loyalist of the Cuban Revolution, recounts the strange twist of fate that took him across one of the world's most treacherous stretches of water in 90 Miles.

The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez

by Catherine Ryan, Gary Weimberg

Premiere: July 27, 1999

A son of Puerto Rican revolutionaries learns of his parents' past. A chronicle of his turbulent journey of self-discovery, offering a striking account of the costs of fiercely held convictions and the binding force of a son's love.

Maria's Story

by Pamela Cohen, Monona Wali and Catherine M. Ryan

Premiere: August 13, 1991

Filmmakers Pamela Cohen, Catherine Ryan and Monona Wali profile a female guerrilla leader in El Salvador's rebel army.

People Power

by Ilan Ziv

Premiere: September 11, 1990

After years of witnessing first hand the horrors of guerrilla wars, Israeli-born producer Ilan Ziv traveled to Chile, the Philippines and the West Bank to explore the development of "People Power" and to reexamine his own long-held belief in the necessary evil of violence to overthrow repressive governments.