Rubén Blades Movies

The life of Puerto Rican revolutionary José Maldonado Román, known as Águila Blanca, on the island in the late 19th century....

The film includes highlights of the Banco Popular's music specials, whose production started in 1993.

A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to...

Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.

The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of Predator 2 is a 2005 documentary that details the production of the 1990 film Predator 2. Created for the...

Singer-turned-boxer Andy 'Kid' Clave signs a contract with a shady promoter Joaquin Vargas. But Clave turns against Vargas when the promoter's thugs...

A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior...

12-year-old Dante Delgado and his fictional soccer team take an adventurous roller coaster ride to the World Cup of Youth Soccer in Rio de Janeiro.

La Salsa Vive is a vibrant cinematic exploration of Afro-Cuban music's history, tracing its roots from New York's lively streets to Cali, Colombia,...

When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish...

A San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to...

Filmed just months after the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, the film offers a critical perspective on the events and documents the subsequent actions...

The salsa singer Rubén Blades attends the Super-8 Film Festival in Caracas and Margarita Island, Venezuela.

Documents the life and musical production of Puerto Rican music composer, Tite Curet Alonso. Includes Tite Curet's last interview before his death.

Set over Halloween weekend 2020, this political thriller follows six friends as they head into "red" country to canvas white women to vote. They are...

Explores the legacy of Fania Records and the Fania All‑Stars who pioneered salsa in the United States. The record label is credited with...

A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.

The stories of a Panamanian officer who feels betrayed by his superiors, of a young man from the neighborhood trying to prevent his friends from...

An unhappily married cleaning woman in the slums of Rio entices all the money and gifts she can out of an elderly widower.

Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project. The shadow government of...