Boyle Heights, historically known as Paredón Blanco, is a

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, located east of the

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. It is one of the city's most notable and historic

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communities and is known as a bastion of

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, hosting cultural landmarks like

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and events like the annual

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celebrations.

History

Boyle Heights was called ("White Bluff") during the Spanish, Mexican, and early American periods. During Mexican rule, what would become Boyle Heights became home to a small settlement of relocated

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refugees from the village of

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in 1845. The villagers were relocated to this new site known as Pueblito after being forcibly evicted from their previous location on the corner

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and Commercial Street by

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immigrant Juan Domingo (John Groningen), who paid Governor

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$200 for the land. On August 13, 1846, Los Angeles was seized by invading American forces during the

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elimination became a core principal of governance and the Pueblito site was razed to the ground in 1847: "the Indians were required to live in dispersed settlements or with their employers in the city." The destruction of Pueblito was reportedly approved by the

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and largely displaced the final generation of the villagers, known as Yaangavit, into the ''

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'' ("place of the dark ones") district. The area became named after

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, an

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born in

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, who purchased on the bluffs overlooking the

after fighting in the Mexican–American War for $4,000. Boyle established his home on the land in 1858. In the 1860s, he began growing grapes and sold the wine under the “Paredon Blanc” name. His son-in-law William Workman served as early mayor and city councilman and also built early infrastructure for the area. From 1889 through 1909 the city was divided into nine wards. In 1899 a motion was introduced at the Ninth Ward Development Association to use the name Boyle Heights to apply to all the highlands of the Ninth Ward, including Brooklyn Heights and Euclid Heights.

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had a factory making tamales here early in their history. The company started in 1894, when tamales were the most popular ethnic food in Los Angeles. The company is the oldest continuously operating Mexican food brand in the United States, and one of the oldest companies in Southern California. HollenbeckBH (cropped)

In the early 1910s, Boyle Heights was one of the only communities that did not have restricted housing covenants that discriminated against Japanese and other people of color. The Japanese community of Little Tokyo continued to grow and extended to the First Street Corridor into Boyle Heights in the early 1910s. Boyle Heights became Los Angeles’s largest residential communities of Japanese immigrants and Americans, apart from Little Tokyo. In the 1920s and 1930s, Boyle Heights became the center of significant churches, temples, and schools for the Japanese community. These include the Tenrikyo Junior Church of America, the Konko Church, and the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple; all designed by Yos Hirose. The Japanese Baptist Church was built by the Los Angeles City Baptist Missionary Society. A hospital, also designed by Hirose, opened in 1929 to serve the Japanese American community. Kiosk (14087559131) (cropped)

Malabar Branch Library, Los Angeles, California

By the 1920s through the 1960s, Boyle Heights was racially and ethnically diverse as a center of

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and

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immigrant life in the early 20th century, and also hosted significant Yugoslav,

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, African-American and

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populations. Bruce Phillips, a sociologist who tracked Jewish communities across the United States, said that Jewish families left Boyle Heights not because of racism, but instead because of banks

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the neighborhood (denying home loans) and the construction of several freeways through the community. In 1961, the construction of the East LA Interchange began. At 135 acres in size, the interchange is three times larger than the average highway system, even expanding at some points to 27 lanes in width. The interchange handles around 1.7 million vehicles daily and has produced one of the most traffic congested regions in the world as well as one of the most concentrated pockets of air pollution in America. Since the 1920s, both elite and working-class communities throughout Southern California have witnessed the enforcement of highly effective racial covenants and other exclusionary measures that aim to distinguish separate white and non-white neighborhoods. This resulted in the development of Boyle Heights, a multicultural, interethnic neighborhood in East Los Angeles whose celebration of cultural difference has made it a role model for democracy. In 2017, some residents were protesting

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of their neighborhood by the influx of new businesses, a theme found in the TV series ''

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'' and ''

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'', both set in the neighborhood.

Demographics

As of the 2000 census, there were 92,785 people in the neighborhood, which was considered "not especially diverse" ethnically, with the racial composition of the neighborhood at 94.0%

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, 2.3%

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, 2.0%

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(non-Hispanic), 0.9%

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, and 0.8% other races. The median household income was $33,235, low in comparison to the rest of the city. The neighborhood's population was also one of the youngest in the city, with a median age of just 25. As of 2011, 95% of the community was Hispanic and Latino. The community had

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, Mexican immigrants, and Central American ethnic residents. Hector Tobar of the ''

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Latino political influence

The emergence of Latino politics in Boyle Heights influenced the diversity in the community. Boyle Heights was a predominantly Jewish community with "a vibrant, pre-World War II,

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-speaking community, replete with small shops along Brooklyn Avenue,

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halls, synagogues and hyperactive politics ... shaped by the enduring influence of the

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and

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parties" before Boyle Heights became predominantly associated with Mexicans/Mexican Americans. The rise of the socialist and communist parties increased the people's involvement in politics in the community because the "liberal-left exercised great influence in the immigrant community". Even with an ever-growing diversity in Boyle Heights, "Jews remained culturally and politically dominant after World War II". Nevertheless, as the Jewish community was moving westward into new homes, the largest growing group, Latinos, was moving into Boyle Heights because to them this neighborhood was represented as upward mobility. With Jews and Latinos both in Boyle Heights, these men, part of the

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(JCRC) — Louis Levy, Ben Solnit, Pinkhas Karl, Harry Sheer, and Julius Levitt — helped to empower the Latinos who either lived among the Jewish people or who worked together in the factories. The combination of Jewish people and Latinos in Boyle Heights symbolized a tight unity between the two communities. The two groups helped to elect

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to the City Council over Councilman Christensen; with the help from the

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(CSO). In order for Roybal to win a landslide victory over Christensen, "the JCRC, with representation from business and labor leaders, associated with both Jewish left traditions, had become the prime financial benefactor to CSO .. labor historically backed incumbents ... ndthe Cold War struggle for the hearts and minds of minority workers also influenced the larger political dynamic". MunozJaime (cropped)

In the 1947 election, Edward Roybal lost, but Jewish community activist

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and the

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(IAF) garnered support from Mexican Americans to bring Roybal to victory two years later 1949.The Community Service Organization (CSO) helped Roybal win the election and to increase the multi-racial involvement in Boyle Heights.(Bernstein, 243) When Roybal took office as city councilman in 1949, he experienced racism when trying to buy a home for his family. The real-estate agent told him that he could not sell to Mexicans, and Roybal's first act as councilman was to protest racial discrimination and to create a community that represented inter-racial politics in Boyle Heights.(Bernstein, 224). This Latino-Jewish relationship shaped politics in that when

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became mayor of Los Angeles in 2005, "not only did he have ties to Boyle Heights, but he was elected by replicating the labor-based, multicultural coalition that Congressman Edward Roybal assembled in 1949 to become Los Angeles's first city council member of Latino heritage". Further, the Vladeck Center (named after Borukh Charney Vladeck) contributed to the community of Boyle Heights in a big way because it was not just a building, it was "a venue for a wide range of activities that promoted Jewish culture and politics".

Government and infrastructure

Evergreen Cemetery Boyle Heights (8505344341) (cropped)

The

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operates the Central Health Center in

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, serving Boyle Heights. The

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's Boyle Heights Post Office is located at 2016 East 1st Street. The Social Security Administration is located at 215 North Soto Street Los Angeles, CA 90033 1-800-772-1213

Transportation

Boyle Heights is home to four stations of the

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: *

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Soto station Soto station is an underground light rail station on the L Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located underneath 1st Street at its intersection with Soto Street in the heart of the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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* Indiana Station

Education

Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School

Just 5% of Boyle Heights residents aged 25 and older had earned a

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by 2000, a low percentage for the city and the county. The percentage of residents in that age range who had not earned a

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was high for the county.

Public

SIATech Boyle Heights Independent Study
Charter High School, 501 South Boyle Avenue
Extera Public School
Charter Elementary, 1942 E. 2nd Street and 2226 E. 3rd Street
Extera Public School #2
Charter Elementary, 1015 S. Lorena Street *

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, alternative, 1200 North Cornwell Street * Theodore Roosevelt High School, 456 South Mathews Street * Mendez High School 1200 Playa Del Sol * Animo

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Charter High School, 1114 South Lorena Street * Boyle Heights

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, 544 South Mathews Street*

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, 1605 Eastlake Avenue * Hollenbeck Middle School, 2510 East Sixth Street * Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School, 725 South Indiana Street * KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory, charter middle, 2810 Whittier Boulevard * Murchison Street Elementary School, 1501 Murchison Street * Evergreen Avenue Elementary School, 2730 Ganahl Street * Sheridan Street Elementary School, 416 North Cornwell Street * Malabar Street Elementary School, 3200 East Malabar Street * Breed Street Elementary School, 2226 East Third Street * First Street Elementary School, 2820 East First Street * Second Street Elementary School, 1942 East Second Street * Soto Street Elementary School, 1020 South Soto Street * Euclid Avenue Elementary School, 806 Euclid Avenue * Sunrise Elementary School, 2821 East Seventh Street * Utah Street Elementary School, 255 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Street * Bridge Street Elementary School, 605 North Boyle Avenue * Garza (Carmen Lomas) Primary Center, elementary, 2750 East Hostetter Street * Christopher Dena Elementary School, 1314 Dacotah Street * Learning Works Charter School, 1916 East First Street * Lorena Street Elementary School, 1015 South Lorena Street * PUENTE Learning Center, 501 South Boyle Avenue * East Los Angeles Occupational Center (Adult Education), 2100 Marengo Street * Endeavor College Preparatory Charter School, 1263 S Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90023

Private

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, 960 South Soto Street * Santa Teresita Elementary School, 2646 Zonal Avenue * Assumption Elementary School, 3016 Winter Street * Saint Mary Catholic Elementary School, 416 South Saint Louis Street * Our Lady of Talpa, elementary, 411 South Evergreen Avenue * East Los Angeles Light and Life Christian School, 207 South Dacotah Street * Santa Isabel Elementary School, 2424 Whittier Boulevard * Dolores Mission School, elementary, 170 South Gless Street * Cristo Viene Christian School, 3607 Whittier Boulevard * Resurrection, elementary, 3360 East Opal Street * White Memorial Adventist School, 1605 New Jersey Street * PUENTE Learning Center, 501 South Boyle Avenue

Landmarks

Front_Entrance,_LA_County_USC_Medical_Center

Existing

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, which was declared a historic-cultural monument in 1988 * Self-Help Graphics and Art, the first community-based organization in the country to create a free public celebration of

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* Los Angeles County Department of Coroner * Estrada Courts Murals * Evergreen Cemetery *

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Linda Vista Community Hospital Linda Vista Community Hospital is a former hospital located at 610-30 South St. Louis Street in Los Angeles, California, United States, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood. The hospital was originally constructed for employees of the Santa Fe Railr ...

(Now Hollenbeck Terrace Apartments, former Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital) * Sears Building, Olympic Boulevard and Soto St. * Malabar Public Library * Lucha Underground Temple, where the television program ''

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'' is taped. * St. Mary's Catholic Church (4th and Chicago Streets)

Demolished

Soto-Michigan Jewish Community Center Soto-Michigan Jewish Community Center (active from 1934–2006) was a community center located at the corner of Soto Street and Michigan Avenue in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California. The building was notable for its architecture a ...

Aliso Village Aliso Village was a housing project in Los Angeles, California. It was built in 1942 and demolished 1999. The parcel was replaced by Pueblo del Sol. The complex was owned and managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. Histo ...

* Sisters Orphan Home, operated by

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, 917 S. Boyle Ave. demolished due to earthquake damage and construction of freeway

Notable people

Politics

* Sheldon Andelson, first openly gay person to be appointed to the

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or any high position in state government *

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, Los Angeles City Council member, 1979–2003 * Martin V. Biscailuz, attorney and Common Council member, 1884–85 *

Howard E. Dorsey Howard Edward Dorsey (July 10, 1904 – August 7, 1937) was a hydraulic engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council in 1937. He was the only council member since at least 1925 to die in office from accidental death — in his case, a ...

, City Council member, 1937Los Angeles Public Library reference file
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worker Clare Wallace from an interview with Dorsey on June 23 of that year and from newspaper articles. *

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, county sheriff and member of the Board of Supervisors *

, Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 30th District and later for the 25th District of California; member of the Los Angeles City Council * Winfred J. Sanborn, City Council member, 1925–29Devin Carroll, Brian Carroll and Wayne Raymond, ''Winfred and Mamie Sanborn'' (privately printed) *

, Mayor of Los Angeles *

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, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, 3rd District

Sports

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(1904–1964), Olympic discus champion; set world records in discus, javelin, and shot put *

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, jockey *

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(born 1938), Football Hall of Famer *

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, Former Los Angeles Clippers owner

Crime

Mickey Cohen Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen (September 4, 1913 – July 29, 1976) was an American gangster, boxer and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles during the mid-20th century. Early life Mickey Cohen was born on September 4, 1913, in New York City to Je ...

, gangster

Arts and culture

Oscar Zeta Acosta Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro (; April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was a Mexican-American attorney, politician, novelist and activist in the Chicano Movement. He was most well known for his novels ''Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo'' (1972) and ...

, attorney, writer, community activist *

Lou Adler Lester Louis Adler (born December 13, 1933) is an American record and film producer and the co-owner of the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California. Adler has produced and developed a number of iconic musical artists, including The Grass Ro ...

, record producer, manager *

Herb Alpert Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have landed on the ...

Greg Boyle Gregory Joseph Boyle, S.J. (born May 19, 1954) is an American Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit order. He is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries, the world's largest gang-intervention and rehabilitation program, and former pastor o ...

Catholic priest The priesthood is the office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned ("ordained") with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church. Technically, bishops are a priestly order as well; however, in layman's terms ''priest'' refers only ...

, community activist *

Norman Granz Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter. He founded the record labels Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo. Granz was acknowledged as "the most successful impresar ...

Josefina López Josefina López (born 1969, San Luis Potosí, Mexico) is a Chicana playwright, perhaps best known as the author of the play (and co-author of the screenplay) ''Real Women Have Curves (play), Real Women Have Curves''. López is also the Founding ...

, writer *

Anthony Quinn Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), known professionally as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor. He was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental v ...

, actor * Andy Russell, international singing star *

Julius Shulman Julius Shulman (October 10, 1910 – July 15, 2009) was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph " Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as the Stahl House. Shulman ...

, photographer *

Taboo A taboo or tabu is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, sacred, or allowed only for certain persons.''Encyclopædia Britannica ...

, rapper *

will.i.am William James Adams Jr. (born March 15, 1975), known professionally as will.i.am (pronounced "Will-I-am"), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is the founding and lead member of the musical group Black Eyed Peas. ...

, recording artist and music producer

Publishing

Jack T. Chick Jack Thomas Chick (April 13, 1924 – October 23, 2016) was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Christian "Chick tracts". He expressed his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morali ...

, publisher of Chick tracts

In popular culture

* 1917: ''

Nuts in May ''Nuts in May'' is a television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, filmed in March 1975, and originally broadcast as part of the BBC's ''Play for Today'' series on 13 January 1976. It is the comical story of a nature-loving and rather sel ...

'' * 1957: ''

The Pajama Game ''The Pajama Game'' is a musical based on the 1953 novel '' 7½ Cents'' by Richard Bissell. The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. and dances were staged by Bob Fosse in his c ...

'' * 1979: ''

Boulevard Nights ''Boulevard Nights'' is a 1979 American neo noir crime film directed by Michael Pressman. It is about life in East Los Angeles and its street gangs. It concerns two brothers, Raymond (Richard Yniguez) and Chuco (Danny De La Paz). Raymond is 'str ...

'' * 1980: ''

The Other Side of the Bridge ''The Other Side of the Bridge'' is the second novel by Canadian novelist Mary Lawson. It became a bestseller in Canada, and was longlisted for The Booker Prize. Plot summary As with her first novel, '' Crow Lake'', the setting is Northern Onta ...

'' ( es, Del Otro Lado del Puente) * 1987: '' Born in East L.A.'' * 1992: ''

American Me ''American Me'' is a 1992 American crime drama film produced and directed by Edward James Olmos, his first film as a director, and written by Floyd Mutrux and Desmond Nakano. Olmos also stars as the film's protagonist, Montoya Santana, loosely ...

'' * 1993: ''

Blood In Blood Out ''Blood In Blood Out'' (also known as ''Bound by Honor'' and ''Blood In Blood Out: Bound By Honor'') is a 1993 American epic crime drama film directed by Taylor Hackford that has become a cult-classic film with a cult following among the Mexic ...

'' * 1995: ''

Dangerous Minds ''Dangerous Minds'' is a 1995 American drama film directed by John N. Smith and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It is based on the autobiography ''My Posse Don't Do Homework'' by retired U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, who in 1989 too ...

'' * 1998–2009 '' Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed'' * 2007: ''

Under the Same Moon ''Under the Same Moon'' ( es, La misma luna) is a 2007 Mexican-American drama film in Spanish and English directed by Patricia Riggen (in her feature film directorial debut) and starring Kate del Castillo, Adrián Alonso, and Eugenio Derbez. Pl ...

'' * 2008: '' The Take'' * 2011: ''

A Better Life ''A Better Life'' is a 2011 American drama film directed by Chris Weitz and written by Eric Eason. It is based on Roger L. Simon's story and follows an undocumented immigrant gardener and his son finding their rent-to-own truck. For his performa ...

'' * 2014–present: ''

'' * 2015: '' East LA Interchange'' (documentary) * 2015/2016: ''

No más bebés ''No Más Bebés'' () is an American documentary film that tells the story of immigrant women who were sterilized upon going into labor. Having been sterilized without knowing at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the mothers sued county d ...

'' * 2018–2020: ''

'' * 2020–2021: ''

'' * 2021: ''

Night Teeth ''Night Teeth'' is a 2021 American vampire thriller film directed by Adam Randall from a screenplay by Brent Dillon. The film stars Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Debby Ryan, Lucy Fry, Raul Castillo, Sydney Sweeney, Megan Fox, and Alfie Allen. ''Night Teet ...