Desc: Valley of Tears: Directed by Hart Perry. With Mikel Weisser. "Valley of Tears" begins in 1979 with a farm strike in South Texas. When pistols were flourished and strike leaders arrested, migrant worker Juanita Valdez recalls: "We realized for the first time Mexican-Americans had rights, that we were the majority....that we were Americans." It took over 20 years to document this dream come true.