Keyword Chicano Movement

Mixing archival footage with interviews, this film celebrates one of Los Angeles's most influential painters and Chicano art activists from the 1970s.

This film tells the story of Jesus Duran, who immigrated from Mexico at a young age and served with the military in Vietnam. There, through a heroic act, he saved his platoon and was awarded a posthumous medal of honor in 2014.

When a failing high school student is asked to go to his professor's office hours, he ends up traveling back in time to experience all the hardships Chicanos endured.