'Latino Americans': PBS Chronicles How Latinos Helped Shape the US Griselda Nevarez - VOXXI
go to original September 15, 2013

Actor Benjamin Bratt narrates this landmark six-hour series, the first major television documentary series to chronicle the rich and varied history of Latinos, who have for the past 500-plus years helped shape what is today the United States and have become the country's largest minority group. (PBS)

Adriana Bosch said she feels that in the last few years — because of how the immigration reform debate has been framed — many Americans see Latinos as a population that “just got here the day before yesterday.”

She is out to prove that narrative wrong.

The Cuban-born filmmaker has spent the last five years working on a landmark three-part, six-hour series that chronicles the 500-plus years of Latino contributions to the United States. The series, dubbed Latino Americans, is set to air nationally on PBS during Hispanic Heritage Month. It will premier on Tuesday and run through Oct. 1.

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