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Feb 23, 2009 · In 1951 in the town of Edna, Texas, a field hand named Pedro Hernández murdered his employer after exchanging words at a gritty cantina. From this seemingly unremarkable small-town murder emerged a...
A Class Apart: Directed by Peter Miller, Carlos Sandoval. With Gloria Villa Cadena, Norma Cantú, Ramiro Casso, James DeAnda. From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case.
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- Documentary
- Peter Miller, Carlos Sandoval
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A Class Apart: With Edvin Endre, Valter Skarsgård, Aliette Opheim, Kevin Vaz. When a student at the famous boarding school Tuna Kvarn is found dead, investigators are met with a wall of silence.
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- 2021-08-22
- Crime, Drama
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A Class Apart, by Carlos Sandoval and Peter Miller, is built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, in which an underdog band of Mexican Americans from Texas bring a case all the...
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A Class Apart is a new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Carlos Sandoval (Farmingville) and Peter Miller (Sacco and Vanzetti, Passin' It On). The first major film to bring to life the heroic post-World War II struggles of Mexican Americans against the Jim Crow-style discrimination targeted against them, A Class Apart is built around the ...
A Class Apart tells the little known story of how a band of underdog Mexican-American lawyers take their case, Hernandez v. Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court and win the first decision to...
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- Latino Public Broadcasting
A Class Apart. 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 civil rights movement. It also brings to life the heroic post-World War II struggle of Mexican Americans fighting to dismantle the discrimination targeted against them.
