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2007

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1940

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2023

The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.

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2008

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2005

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Horse Sense

1999

After treating his rancher cousin shoddily in L.A. Michael Woods is sentenced by his parents to spending a month on the ranch with his cousin and aunt.

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2014

A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

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