Las Marthas (2014)
• January 19th, 2014 • 1h 6min
Documentary, History
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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