Rubén Blades Movies

A testimony about Afro-Cuban popular music from its origins to the present day.

Set over Halloween weekend 2020, this political thriller follows six friends as they head into "red" country to canvas white women to vote. They are...

When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish...

An upper middle class white young girl leaves her suburban family in shock when she moves in with her lover, an Afro-Latino trumpeter.

A made for TV documentary about the creation of Paul Simon and Derek Walcott's controversial and ultimately flop of a music, "The Capeman". Explores...

Celebrated actor, political activist, songwriter, and multiple Grammy Award winning performer Rubén Blades returned to the stage with the live...

Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.

A San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to...

Presents a bit of the history of the migration of our people, people who came out opening new horizons and looking for new destinations. During that...

The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of Predator 2 is a 2005 documentary that details the production of the 1990 film Predator 2. Created for the...

Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project. The shadow government of...

The social vision of the lives of three Hispanic singer-songwriters who enjoy the favor of Puerto Rican public and Latin America is presented:...

Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel...

Musical documentary film about the similarities between two types of music genres known as Salsa and Reggaeton. The clave is the five-note two-bar...

Documentary Chronicling the making of Artists United Against Apartheid “Sun City”

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta...

The music of the Puerto Rican composer Pedro Flores which was televised on Dec. 8, 1996.

Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman.

Homage to Puerto Rican composer Catalino Curet Alonso, or as his friends and fans call him, "Tite", representing how widely influential the composer...

The film includes highlights of the Banco Popular's music specials, whose production started in 1993.