Las Marthas

Las Marthas (2014)

January 19th, 20141h 6min

Documentary, History
70%

Overview

Marthas is a PBS documentary about an extraordinary rite of passage in Laredo, Texas where teenage Mexican-American girls debut in a grand Colonial Ball dressed as American revolutionaries - a tradition that goes back 114 years.


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