Cesar Chavez

"Cesar Chavez" is a 2014 biographical drama film about the life of American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who cofounded the United Farm Workers. The film follows Chavez's efforts to organize 50,000 farm workers in California, including temporary workers from Mexico permitted to live and work in the United States. Michael Peña stars as Chavez, while Rosario Dawson plays Dolores Huerta, his co-founder of the UFW, alongside John Malkovich as an abusive grape-grower. The film chronicles Chavez's nonviolent campaigns, including the Delano grape strike, the Salad Bowl strike, and the 1975 Modesto march.