The fight in the fields [videorecording] : Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers' struggle / a production of Paradigm Productions Inc. in association with Independent Television Service ; produced and directed by Ray Telles, Rick Tejada-Flores.

0781512395
9780781512398

New York : Distributed by Cinema Guild, 2007.

English

1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

HD6509.C48 F47 2007

1361 Cinema Guild

The story of Cesar Chavez, founder of the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Examines the grape and lettuce boycotts and the non-violent movements of the 1960s and 1970s; these confronted conservative politicians and the Teamsters Union and inspired Chicano activism. Uses archival footage, newsreels, and contemporary interviews with activists, politicians, and Chavez family members.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996.
Narrator, Henry Darrow ; Interviewees, Ethel Kennedy, Jerry Brown, Dolores Huerta, Chavez' brother, sister, son and daughter.

Camera, Vicente Franco ; editor, Herb Ferrette ; music, Pete Sears.

DVD-R; NTSC; all regions.

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