HERITAGE FILM PROJECT

Heritage Film Project, led by filmmaker Eduardo Montes-Bradley, produces documentary films that explore art, culture, history, and the humanities with an emphasis on thoughtful research and storytelling. Developed for educational audiences, these films are made available to public and academic libraries around the world with the support of the Documentary Film Fund, whose backing allows the work to remain independent, accessible, and focused on long-term cultural impact. Today, Heritage Film Project titles are available through more than 40,000 public and academic libraries worldwide.

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EXPLORE THE HISTORY OF SAMBA & CARNIVAL IN RIO

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Over the years, we have had the privilege of working with extraordinary individuals. This gallery in-progress, features some
of my favorite portraits of those who helped us realize what once seemed an impossible dream: building a unique library of documentary films now available to audiences everywhere.

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Titlepage of libretto of Zumaya's opera 'Partenope', 1714

Opera Before Nation: The New World Answers in Italian

Writing today from Charlottesville, I cannot help but feel the tension of that contrast. In the United States, miscegenation was criminalized until 1967, when Loving v. Virginia struck down anti-miscegenation laws.[3] The fear of racial mixing shaped law, culture, and violence. In Brazil — imperfect, contradictory, deeply unequal Brazil — racial mixture had long been acknowledged as structural, as constitutive.

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Beyond New York: Rethinking American Musical Beginnings

When we speak of the birth of an American musical identity, the conversation inevitably narrows itself to Boston and New York, only occasionally to include Philadelphia and perhaps New Orleans. Names like George Bristow and William Henry Fry are invoked as pioneers of symphonic ambition in the United States. And rightly so — they were courageous figures, advocating for a national voice at a time when European models dominated concert life.

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George Frederick Bristow and the Monroe Horizon:Cultural Sovereignty in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

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