Danger, toil, and superstition pervade life in a mining town high up in the Bolivian mountains. Tin is the heartbeat of the community providing jobs and livelihoods - but at considerable cost. With deaths commonplace, people make offerings to El Tio, the devil under the earth, for protection and good fortune. But when the mountain's flow of tin ebbs, further measures must be taken...
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Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of ...
A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's (wh...
In 1879, Bolivia lost its access to the sea in a war. When I was a child I did not understand how we...
'The Devil's Miner' tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection whi...
Critical investigation of The World Bank and IMF. Too hot for PBS, but prime time TV everywhere else...
In the rich hill of Potosí in Bolivia there is a silver mine that was the largest in the world. It h...
A Bolivian by birth, who grew up with adoptive parents in the Swabian town of Mössingen, is looking ...
His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers eve...
General Alfredo Ovando Candia was a decisive figure in 20 th century Bolivian history. Through old h...
The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her...
Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a c...
This is the history of a young farmer of the Bolivian plateau that becomes the first indigenous pres...
2006: Evo Morales, first indigenous President is elected in Bolivia after the 2003 dramatic events f...
Bolivia's Climbing Cholitas - a group of indigenous women scaling the Andes Mountains, some of the h...
A day in the life of Esperanza, a Quechua girl who lives in the remote mountains of southwestern Bol...