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Compelling and corrective, Dolores unearths overlooked history to spotlight one of activism's most powerful -- and often forgotten -- voices, Dolores Huerta. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Raising 11 children while wrestling with gender bias, union defeat and victory, and nearly dying after a San Francisco Police beating, Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions to co-found the country's first farmworkers union.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Peter Bratt
Producer:

Peter Bratt, Brian Benson
Writer:

Peter Bratt, Jessica Congdon
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 1, 2017 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 30, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA):

$486.2K
Runtime:

1h 36m

Cast & Crew

Dolores Huerta
Self

Peter Bratt
Director

Peter Bratt
Writer

Jessica Congdon
Writer

Peter Bratt
Producer

Brian Benson
Producer

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Critic Reviews for Dolores

All Critics (44) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (1)

[Peter Bratt] deftly edits together archival footage and interviews with Huerta's children, co-workers, collaborators, and Huerta herself. He backs it with a jazz and salsa soundtrack and tells the story with zest and clarity.

December 28, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Peter Keough
Boston Globe
It's a powerful, provocative filmmaking that could potentially inspire a new generation of Dolores Huertas.

December 28, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

David Hughes
Empire Magazine
[An] essential documentary.

December 3, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Simran Hans
Observer (UK)
Using powerful archive material, the film chronicles Huerta's life and triumphs.

December 1, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Cath Clarke
Guardian
Modern US history gets a bracing rewrite with Dolores...

December 1, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
With Dolores, we're getting the lesson we deserve.

October 6, 2017 | Full Review…

April Wolfe
Village Voice
Using a mix of talking heads and an unprecedented amount of on-the-front-lines footage, Bratt has created a compelling, joyous documentary that takes pains to avoid the hagiographic leanings of similar films.

March 24, 2020 | Full Review…

Dan Scully
Cinema76
Watch it to celebrate and be inspired.

October 18, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Leslie Combemale
Cinema Siren
This well-made documentary goes a way towards righting that wrong in the case of Huerta.

April 26, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Cate Marquis
We Are Movie Geeks
This documentary's not exactly perfect, but it's thorough, sincere and real and a great primer if you're one of the many to whom her name is unfamiliar.

March 28, 2018 | Rating: 8.5/10 | Full Review…

Amy Glynn
Paste Magazine
This film is a must for you and your family. [Full review in Spanish]

March 14, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Laura Hiros
Diario La Estrella (Fort Worth, TX)
First a pioneer and now an icon, Dolores Huerta is above all a woman committed, as ever, to the many causes she has championed throughout her life.

January 25, 2018 | Full Review…

Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Hammer to Nail