Edward James Olmos Movies

A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types.

Along the eastern edge of the Peruvian Andes runs a river called the Manu, the heart of one of the world's largest and most pristine rain forest...

The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects...

The Egyptian executioner's wife tries to seduce Hebrew slave Joseph to fulfill a dream they are experiencing simultaneously.

A special regarding the possibility that the world was on the verge of extinction. Many predictions are examined, including some eerie ones regarding...

Gallo Morales is the proud patriach returning home after a seven-year stint for manslaughter. Seeking to re-establish his legendary status as a...

The dramatic and touching story of thousands of adults, children, and generations of families who have been living and working in the largest and...

Crockett and Tubbs, figuring they're on their way out, are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country - with...

Built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, the film interweaves the stories of its central characters with a broader story of the...

After the death of their brilliant but emotionally distant mother, two estranged siblings inherit her final invention: an AI built from her...

It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader...

"Zapatista" is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticks and their word against...

Roz Abrams hosts a special report on youth violence.

An exploration of the faces and spaces of Lieutenant Martin Castillo, as portrayed by Edward James Olmos, on the television series Miami Vice.

The September 11th attacks began a decade-long period of anti-immigrant policies in the United States. As a consequence, the US began the...

The journey of the thousands of people from Central America and Mexico who leave their homes and families and suffer extraordinary brutality -or loss...

After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man, slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family...

AGAVE IS LIFE is an exploration of the history of the agave plant in the cultures of Mexico and the American Southwest. Starting thousands of years...

Lives in Hazard is a tough, uncompromising look at kids in gangs and the men they become in prison. Filmed in the barrios of east LA and in the...

Exploration of prejudice and culture clash that a group of Laotian Buddhist refugees must endure in Rockford, Illinois.