Latino Americans

Episode 2: Empire of Dreams
S1 Ep2 | 55m 46s
Documents how the American population begins to be reshaped by the influx of immigrants

Episode 3: War and Peace
S1 Ep3 | 55m 16s
Latino Americans serve their country during WWII but still face discrimination at home.

Episode 4: The New Latinos
S1 Ep4 | 55m 44s
Highlights the swelling immigration from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic

Episode 6: Peril and Promise
S1 Ep6 | 55m 6s
Takes viewers through the past 30 years of immigration and transformation

Episode 2: Empire of Dreams Trailer
S1 Ep2 | 2m 37s
Widespread immigration to the U.S. from Latin countries begins.

Episode 3: War and Peace Trailer
S1 Ep3 | 3m 46s
Service during the war allows Latinos to make unprecedented gains in civil rights

Episode 4: The New Latinos Trailer
S1 Ep4 | 3m 5s
New waves of immigration bring people from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic

Episode 5: Prejudice and Pride Trailer
S1 Ep5 | 3m 23s
In the 1960s and 1970s a generation of Mexican Americans build a new "Chicano" identity

Episode 6: Peril and Promise Trailer
S1 Ep6 | 3m 23s
From Cuba a second wave of refugees to United States – the Mariel exodus – floods Miami
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