Latin American & Caribbean Area Studies: Film & Other Media
Links to Film Resources, Digitized Film, & Digitized Sound
Locating Africana, Latin American, & Caribbean Videos
Provides information on sources for purchasing or renting DVDs and videos for the study of the African diaspora, Latin America and the Caribbean. (Binghamton University Libraries)
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
A digital archive of sound recordings of indigenous languages of Latin America. Most of the site is freely accessible after registering. (University of Texas, Austin)
Audiovideoteca de escritores de Buenos Aires
An audiovisual library of clips from taped interviews with noted Argentine authors. Site is accessible in English and Spanish, however most of the videos are in Spanish. (Government of the City of Buenos Aires)
BBC Documentary Archive
Here you can download and stream audio and video files related to BBC stories dealing with Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora. In English. (BBC)
Musica de la frontera: Archive of Mexican-American Music
A collection of digitized music from Mexico, the US, and the borderlands. Includes some of the earliest recordings of corridos, canciones, boleros, rancheras, sones, norteños, and conjunto music. Users can listen to 50-second clips online. (University of California, Los Angeles)
SALALM Video Resources
A searchable bibliography (via RefShare) of resources dealing with Latin American and Caribbean film and video. Also possible to browse by country for information on film periodicals, local producers and distributors, websites, and selected readings. (SALALM)
Sealing our Border – Why it Won’t Work
A four-part series of video clips and multimedia presentations about life at the US-Mexico border. (Arizona Daily Star)
Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
This war between the United States and Spain over Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines represents some of the earliest uses of film in a US war. Some of the collection is digitized and available through Quicktime. (Library of Congress)