Around the film hang fascinating questions about border politics, which I’ll touch on in an introduction before the screening. One of Eugene Buck’s motivations for making the film may have been his rough cross-examination during his kidnappers’ first trials, in October 1913, when defense attorneys cast him as a confused and unreliable witness against idealistic freedom fighters. On film he could reproduce the pursuit, the shootouts, his kidnapping, and his friend’s murder just as he had testified. Reenacting the crime on film may have been the best revenge—and a way to honor the sacrifice of Deputy Ortiz, a twenty-year police veteran and, for the era, a rare Mexican American lawman.

A short documentary film about the director's relationship with his deceased grandfather.

Documentary showing the efforts to bring cinema to marginalized communities in Mexico.

English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.

Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by ...

A man tries to find a moment of silence amidst the chaos of a busy city and his own troubled mind.

As unrestricted development threatens water sources in Baja California Sur, Mexico, local peoples ar...

The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters ...

An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigran...

Three brothers smuggle arms and drugs from Mexico into the US.

Narrowly escaping death, outlaw Johnny Madrid goes on the run with the hangman's sensuous daughter E...

A hacker who is spying on a pretty neighbour messes up his assignment to break into Swiss bank accou...

When Quintero, a Mexican revolutionary leader, is left to rot in jail by the forces of President Dia...

Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The S...

A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.

Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming...

Cowboy T-man, Rex Allen, and his partner, Homer Oglethorpe (Buddy Ebsen), go undercover to track dow...

This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bri...

On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a friv...

Curley Smith, a lieutenant of the Texas Rangers, gets chased by a band of smugglers after getting ca...

When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of...