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Season 13 Episode 2: La Boda

32 SeasonsJun 27, 2000NR1h8

“La Boda” (The Wedding) follows a Mexican-American migrant farmworker during the six days prior to her nuptials. Bride-to-be Elizabeth Luis, an American citizen, lives with her parents and seven siblings (six of them sisters) in Texas's Rio Grande Valley, but the family travels frequently to California fields and to their home town, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, where her wedding to Artemio Guerrero is to take place. “Destiny will take us,” he tells director Hannah Weyer, “and that's where we...

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Season 13 Episodes:

Episode 1 Butterfly

Aired: Jun 20, 2000

Chronicling the two-year “tree-sit” by environmental activist Julia Hill, exa...

Episode 2 La Boda

Aired: Jun 27, 2000

“La Boda” (The Wedding) follows a Mexican-American migrant farmworker during ...

Episode 3 Stranger With A Camera

3. Stranger With A Camera

Aired: Jul 11, 2000

Stranger With A Camera is a 2000 documentary film by director Elizabeth Barre...

Episode 4 Blink

Aired: Jul 18, 2000

Ex-white supremacist Ron Withrow, who founded the White Students Union at a C...

Episode 5 Our House in Havana

5. Our House in Havana

Aired: Jul 25, 2000

Following Cuban expatriate Silvia Moroni Heath, the daughter of a sugar plant...

Episode 6 Dreamland

Aired: Aug 22, 2000

Gambling hits home in filmmaker Lisanne Skyler's perceptive profile of Las Ve...

Episode 7 American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land

7. American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land

Aired: Aug 29, 2000

Exploring the secretive and largely unassimilated Romani culture as it follow...

Episode 8 KPFA on the Air

8. KPFA on the Air

Aired: Sep 20, 2000

A heartfelt history of KFPA, the nation's oldest alternative radio station, t...

Episode 9 Live Free or Die

9. Live Free or Die

Aired: Sep 27, 2000

Following abortion politics as they played out during the 1990s in one U.S. t...

Episode 10 First Person Plural

10. First Person Plural

Aired: Dec 18, 2000

A Korean-American adoptee tries to forge relationships with her biological fa...

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Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary