El Norte (Blu-ray Disc, 2009, Criterion Collection)

This is one great movie it is sub-titled however it is easy to understand. Although the story is fictional and with all the violance and correption in Mexico, central and south America you can see why these people want to and try again and again to get to America. Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It's a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava's groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the personal travels of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism. A work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery, El Norte is a lovingly rendered, heartbreaking story of hope and survival, which critic Roger Ebert called a Grapes of Wrath for our time.