Dolores

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Dolores

2017

1h 36m

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Raising 11 children while wrestling with gender bias, union defeat and victory, and nearly dying after a San Francisco Police beating, Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions to co-found the country's first farmworkers union.

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Compelling and corrective, Dolores unearths overlooked history to spotlight one of activism's most powerful -- and often forgotten -- voices, Dolores Huerta.

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Peter Keough

Boston Globe

12/28/2017

3.5/4

[Peter Bratt] deftly edits together archival footage and interviews with Huerta's children, co-workers, collaborators, and Huerta herself. He backs it with a jazz and salsa soundtrack and tells the story with zest and clarity.

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David Hughes

Empire Magazine

12/28/2017

4/5

It's a powerful, provocative filmmaking that could potentially inspire a new generation of Dolores Huertas.

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Simran Hans

Observer (UK)

12/03/2017

4/5

[An] essential documentary.

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Colin Stacy

Vague Visages

12/06/2023

n a time such as ours, Dolores delivers a vision of community organization and social flourishment that can usher in a new reality for America’s masses.

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Dan Scully

Cinema76

03/24/2020

Using a mix of talking heads and an unprecedented amount of on-the-front-lines footage, Bratt has created a compelling, joyous documentary that takes pains to avoid the hagiographic leanings of similar films.

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Leslie Combemale

Cinema Siren

10/18/2019

5/5

Watch it to celebrate and be inspired.

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Raising 11 children while wrestling with gender bias, union defeat and victory, and nearly dying after a San Francisco Police beating, Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions to co-found the country's first farmworkers union.

Director: Peter Bratt
Producer: Peter Bratt, Brian Benson
Screenwriter: Peter Bratt, Jessica Congdon
Distributor: PBS Distribution
Production Co: 5 Stick Films, Artemis Rising Foundation
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 1, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 28, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $486.2K
Runtime: 1h 36m