Marthas is a PBS documentary about an extraordinary rite of passage in Laredo, Texas where teenage Mexican-American girls debut in a grand Colonial Ball dressed as American revolutionaries - a tradition that goes back 114 years.
Las Marthas is of 1 hour(s) and 6 minute(s). It is Produced By: Undocumented Films. It was released on 2014-01-19. It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
Genres: DocumentaryHistory
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