25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln
Ellen Brodsky
United States, 2019, 33 min.
In English.
This film is family friendly.
Join the quest of 25 history students, mostly Mexican American, who drive 2,000 miles from the Alamo in Texas to a Springfield, Illinois museum asking to repatriate General Santa Anna's prosthetic leg and honoring Abraham Lincoln with a Day of the Dead altar. With humor, humility, and animated history lessons, these students raise questions of identity, borders, museum ethics, and collective memory. Learn about this unusual trophy from the US Mexican War – the war Mexicans never forget, and Americans hardly remember.
Category: Documentary.
Themes: Historical, Humanities, Mexican Culture, Youth.
Tuesday, April 16
The Screening Room
6:00pm
Filmmaker in Attendance
More in Documentary
-
Children of Bal Ashram
Len Morris
United States, 2018, 64 min.What happens after the raid, when terrified child slaves are rescued from criminal employers? At Bal Ashram, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi and his... more ›
-
RocKabul
Travis Beard
Australia, 2018, 90 min.RocKabul is a coming of age documentary about youth, freedom of expression, and the strength of the human spirit. As Afghanistan's first and only... more ›
-
Into The Arctic: Awakening
Cory Trépanier
Canada, 2019, 77 min.Untamed beauty has drawn Cory Trépanier to paint the Canadian Arctic for over a decade. Preparing for a touring exhibition in Washington DC, he heads... more ›