"Sometimes living a dream means surviving a nightmare."
Two young undocumented immigrants are orphaned when their parents are murdered while crossing the U.S./Mexico border. As their lives progress, they fight to overcome extreme adversity, while clinging to the hope that the DREAM Act legislation will soon pass; offering them a legitimate path to citizenship.
Two young undocumented immigrants are orphaned when their parents are murdered while crossing the U.S./Mexico border. As their lives progress, they fight to overcome extreme adversity, while clinging to the hope that the DREAM Act legislation will soon pass; offering them a legitimate path to citizenship.
An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.
A young and fiercely independent woman, Carmen, is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother. She survives an illegal border crossing into the US, only to be confronted by a lawless volunteer border guard. When the border guard and his patrol partner Aidan become embroiled in a deadly standoff, the pair is forced to escape together.
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential... and perhaps even their genius.
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Lucía lives with an incurable disease, and Bruno was deported to Mexico with no place to sleep. An unexpected phone call brings them together in an emotional story of overcoming, reconstruction and hope.