Movies: Óscar Menéndez

Chapter 9 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico from 1940 to 1944. The presidency of Manuel Avila Camacho (1940-1946) in the context of the World War II....

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A short film that takes us on a small auditory and visually remarkable journey through parts of Mexico City....

Paul Leduc, Rafael Castanedo, Óscar Menéndez and other students filmed the CNH assemblies and took to the streets to record the rallies, demonstrations and confrontations that the various student groups held against the police and the army throughout...

This documentary begins searching for the whereabouts of the films that Servando Gonzalez did about the events of October 2nd 1968 in Tlatelolco, research that later will deal with the fire of March 24th 1982 at the National Film Archives, which des...

Chronological account of the events that culminated in the massacre of students in Tlatelolco in 1968....

Rubén Jaramillo was the first cavalry captain of the South Liberation Army that Zapata commanded. For more than 40 years, he had an unequal struggle with the governments that followed after the armed struggle. In this film, the last stage of his life...

Documentary on the historical legacy of the popular movements of Mexico in 1968...

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Testimony of the popular struggle of 1968 from the perspective of the political prisoners locked up in Lecumberri....

This documentary delves into the life and work of director Óscar Menéndez and his journey to study film at a time when there were no film schools or resources for this profession in Mexico. Menéndez is a prominent figure in Mexican independent docume...

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Documentary on the legacy of the Mexican 1968 social movements...

Documentary about the Mexican writer José Revueltas, imprisoned in the Lecumberri prison after the end of the 1968 student-popular movement....

This short film is part of the many documentary materials through which the National Strike Council (CNH), the heart of the 1968 student-popular movement, disseminated its activities and proposals in university film clubs....