Kanopy Streaming Videos
Practice your Spanish by watching high-quality films. Kanopy is a video streaming service provided by the Penn State Libraries, offering hundreds of award-winning films and documentaries in Spanish. A "netlflix" for college students and professors!
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Learning Spanish: How to Understand and Speak a New LanguageA 30-episode video course for learning Spanish! Created by a Spanish professor at the University of Alabama. Find a free workbook under the "Supplemental Materials" tab.
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Spain: Facing UncertaintyGood overview of the problems facing modern democratic Spain.
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Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights MovementA four-episode series about Mexican-Americans.
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Cubamerican: A Million Refugees' Quest for Freedom"The story of how the Cuban Revolution shattered the Cuban family...the stories of Cuban exiles that have achieved acclaim in diverse fields in the U.S.A. and beyond, rendering a mosaic of a bittersweet exile experience."
Featured Film for Spring 2019: El Norte
"Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It's a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava's groundbreaking EL NORTE (The North), the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism."