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Dolores

Directed by: Peter Bratt
Runtime: 1hr 35min Year: 2017
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Directed by: Peter Bratt
Runtime: 1hr 35min Year: 2017
Country: United States
Last Screened: Thu 14th Dec 2017

Dolores Huerta is an indomitable civil rights activist largely forgotten by history. Director Peter Bratt sets the record straight with this intimate and energising documentary on her life and achievements.

Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in recent history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labour justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century—and she continues the fight to this day, at 87.

With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother to eleven, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change.