Walkout

Year: 2006

Actors: Alexa PenaVega, Michael Peña, Laura Harring, Edward James Olmos

Duration: 110 min

Tired of unequal treatment, Mexican-American student activist Paula Crisostomo (Vega) decides to take action and stage a walkout at five East Los Angeles high schools in 1968 to protest educational conditions and to complain of anti-Mexican educational bias along with some 10,000 students. Based on a true story .—Norma Schaffer

Genre: Drama