Filmmaker Gregory Nava crafts a multi-generational epic in My Family, Mi Familia, a film that follows nearly 60 years in the life of a Latino family whose roots in the United States date back to the 1920s. Released in 1995, Nava's film addresses...

My Family (1995) is a American drama film directed by Gregory Nava and written by Nava and Anna Thomas. The film is also known as My Family/Mi Familia. The motion picture stars Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales and others. It also features...

As a Jewish child living in Germany in 1939, Sylva Oppenheimer was sent by her parents to safety in England. She never saw them again. Her daughter, Deborah, has made a film and written a book about the Kindertransport scheme, which was unique to...

Watching her parents in action after the earthquake in Pakistan, she relearned the most important lessons of organizing. On October 8th, a 7.6 earthquake radiated through Kashmir and the North West Frontier Province. A total of 3.5 million people lost their homes and...

So it’s a double issue week at Observer world headquarters, which for just about everyone means a vacation week. (Except, I’m told, for the prolific Azi, to whom the term “vacation week” means “time in which I only file 800 stories, instead of my usual...

Some day someone should make a Schindler's List-like movie of the guy who helped bring us out. It was Jacob Henry Schiff (1847-1920). Schiff was a great Jewish hero, there should be statues to this guy. He was the head of Kuhn, Loeb, and rivaled...

A Mexican family tries to stay together in the film "My Family." Character descriptions of the family as well as a plot summary.