Chavez Ravine
0 stars-- Lazy-! Could the filmmaker do any less research ?
Jordan Mechner
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Chavez Ravine
CHAVEZ RAVINE tells the bittersweet story of how an American community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy and good intentions gone astray. In 1949, photographer Don Normark stumbled on Chávez Ravine, a closely-knit Mexican-American village on a hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles....Watch Movie
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Chavez Ravine
I read the picture book on which the film is based. No one cared about a bunch of campesinos. Frank Wilkinson was a great fighter for civil liberties.
Chavez Ravine
A documentary about LA-power-structure duplicity in dealings with a small Latino community. But it's also a documentary made real by the extraordinary, accidental photographs of everyday life in the community,...
Chavez Ravine
Very good. I had often heard Mexican Americans in Los Angeles mention this event, but I never had a full understanding of all that was lost.