Enjoy the first part of this documentary directed by English director and musician Duncan Bridgeman. In this segment, we will see a special introduction with traditional Mexican sounds and the voice of Rubén Albarrán, vocalist of the group Café Tacvba.

Parte 1, Parte 2

El ámbar mexicano, Rompecabezas y libretas artesanales

The 51-year-old Alejandro Fernández has released twenty-three albums over the years. The son of another popular Mexican singer (Vicente Fernández), Alejandro has come into his own as a passionate man, unafraid to show his feelings. This documentary brings us inside the recording of Viento a Favor, an album that quickly went platinum.

¡Tierra, Sí! [Land, Yes!] examines controversial 2006 events during the Mexican presidency of Vicente Fox whereby peasants in the municipality of San Salvador Atenco vehemently protested the construction of an airport that would displace thousands of families from their land.

Let's continue to examine the context in which Pablo Escobar began to rise to unparalleled power and the way in which Colombian society initially condoned this provincial man who was beginning to amass a drug trafficking fortune.

75 minutos takes us inside an avocado mill where we meet the workers and learn how avocados are classified and sold.

Spanish mushroom pickers explain about a few of the many different types of mushrooms. While some are edible, sought-after delicacies and others have the medicinal qualities of vasodilators and aphrodisiacs, still others are poisonous when eaten and can even cause death.

Joan Planas’ documentary, Con ánimo de lucro (With Intent to Profit), launches with a list of the UN’s objectives for development in the new millennium. While the UN plan calls for cutting poverty in half by 2015, it’s off to a terrible start. So we’re off to explore what’s gone wrong in Nicaragua, one of the countries with the most NGOs and the highest levels of poverty in Latin America.