Americanos: Latino Life in the United States (2000)

Americans of Latino and Hispanic descent are transforming the face of America. Latinos have made enormous contributions to our national heritage in the arts, politics, business, education, science and religion. Americanos celebrates this remarkable legacy, through the stories of some of the most compelling Latino-Americans alive today. The film explores the diversity of Latinos a Mexican-American Elvis impersonator, to the first Hispanic woman in the President's cabinet, and along the way, explodes the stereotypes. Infused with the music of Carlos Santana, Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, Lhasa and others.