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Immigration
56 film(s) found
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Agent Yellow is a powerful indictment of the U.S. government’s systematic prejudice against Chinese-American scientists. The film focuses on the mistreatment of Chinese scientists who contributed significantly to American military research. more »
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This view of the Amish shows a dynamic people who have modified their rules so that they can prosper in commercial enterprises. Modern conveniences, such as telephones, that they shun at home they use in their businesses. more »
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This charming film shows how the filmmaker, an immigrant from Vietnam, found a new life in America while preserving his cultural tradition through cooking, eating and sharing the rich and varied food of his homeland. First in a trilogy, with Pins and Noodles and A Wok in Progress. more »
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This multi-festival film is a portrayal of the fortitude of an immigrant "war bride" in America. Seventy-six-year-old Young-Ja Wike is one of the 10,000 Korean women who married American G.I.s. after the war. For them marriage was the only escape from the crushing poverty of post-war Korea. more »
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Hmong refugees have been transplanted from mountain villages in Laos to cities in the U.S. The film shows how they practice their ancient shamanic rituals in urban America. more »
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A sensitive study of a community of Laotian refugees in Rockford, Illinois, who are torn between preserving their cultural identity and adapting to their new life. more »
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The first film to reveal the horrific impact of the McCarthy era on the Chinese-American community. more »
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This dazzling Academy Award nominee tells the story of a Lithuanian immigrant, who left the shtetl to escape the virulent anti-Semitism there and became a recognized painter in the New World. The film captures his artwork by using innovative animation techniques. more »
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Muslim-American girls are lively and full of fun -- despite wearing the traditional "hijab". Since 9/11 they must cope with suspicion. more »
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A 15-year-old brought up by a Mexican family while his mother was incarcerated in the U.S. as a Puerto Rican nationalist, finally comes to know his mother. more »
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A sensitive and probing portrayal of Korean immigrant grandparents and their marriage through the brilliant use of home movies, photographs, and interviews. more »
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A portrait of what it’s like to be an "illegal alien." Geronimo came to the U.S. not knowing a word of English, went to school by night, and sent money home to his family in Mexico. When he returns home for a visit, one sees how hopeless life is for those who have remained in his village. more »
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The film chronicles the experiences of Mexican farmworkers and their isolation in a land of plenty. Historical footage and interviews trace the history of the United Farmworkers Union. more »
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When President Bush and some members of Congress proposed guest worker programs as part of new immigration reform legislation, it was as though nothing like this had existed before. Yet since 1986, thousands of Mexican men have legally entered the United States to work here, because of the little known H-2A guestworker program. more »
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A portrait of the International High School in New York City where recent immigrants from 43 countries create the most multicultural classroom imaginable. The film shows how cultural and racial differences can be reconciled within an educational system. more »
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This is the story of the immigration of Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos to America. The film explores history through the personal stories of representative families. more »
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During World War II, a unit of second generation Japanese immigrants was fighting bravely on the European front. Their regiment became the most highly decorated in American history. However, at home, their families were being interned. more »
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This is a poignant portrait of the migrant farm worker from Mexico in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, CA. Undocumented, they have no way to protect themselves from exploitation. more »
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Every year thousands of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala leave their families and homes in Central America in their attempt to make a life for themselves in "El Norte" (the U.S.). Staking everything they own on a one-way trip to the promised land, they encounter police abuse, robbery, extortion, rape and even murder at the hands of Mexicans. more »
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Some people have very big hearts! We meet an Australian couple who have adopted several Ethiopian orphaned children. We see how they help the children overcome the pain of their past as they adjust to a new country. more »
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This film celebrates the long and rich tradition of Latin culture in a multicultural community in Florida which was founded on the cigar industry. more »
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Filmmaker Flora Moon was born in Indiana of parents who had fled Red China. Because of her family's efforts to avoid scrutiny during the Cold War era of the 1950's they tried hard to blend in with their surroundings and little mention was made at home of their Chinese past. Flora was grown when she learned about her family history and her Chinese roots. more »
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In the 40’s, an Asian American couple rose from the Chinatown nightclub circuit to the Ed Sullivan Show, watched by millions of Americans. This family’s story reveals the racism of the era. more »
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Reminiscent of Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club," this real life film focuses on the widening chasm between a Chinese mother, a first generation immigrant, and her daughter, eager to assimilate more »
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This charming documentary depicts the social space of a kosher Middle Eastern grocery store in the traditionally Sephardic section of Brooklyn, with customers speaking Hebrew, English, Syrian and Egyptian Arabic as well as other languages. more »
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With gentle humor, this short fiction film captures the plight of a young man caught between the traditional ways of his immigrant Indian parents and the freer lifestyle of his American peers. more »
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This unique film shows the art, craft, dance and history of the moko jumbie, which means "dancing spirit", as they appear at street festivals in New York City. more »
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Three classically-trained Chinese opera artists keep alive their revered art form in New York by performing operas in their time off from work. more »
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This inspiring film chronicles Capt. Bruce Yamashita¹s fight against racial discrimination in the Marine Corps. A third-generation American of Japanese ancestry, he sought to qualify as an officer in the Marine Corps. After a horrendous nine week training program where he endured racial slurs and humiliations, he was denied the commission. His five-year battle brought national attention to the Marine Corps¹ policy against minorities. more »
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Two films. The first shows descendants of slaves exploring their African ancestry through DNA research. The second, shot two years later, looks at how discoveries about their own history have affected the participants in the earlier ground breaking investigation. more »
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Descendants of slaves are now able to explore their African ancestry through DNA research. We meet several who have made emotional connections. more »
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Two years after filming A Genetic Journey, this film follows where that award-winning film left off. It looks at how discoveries about their own history have affected the participants in the earlier ground breaking investigation. Shot in the UK, USA, Africa and Jamaica, this very moving film continues three soul-searching journeys that raise fundamental questions about who we are. more »
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This is an intimate look at the Yiu Mien, South Asian refugees who originally settled in the Pacific Northwest. They had to leave Laos because of their involvement with the CIA. Their adjustment to modern American life has its problems. more »
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In Texan communities along the Rio Grande, there is a vibrant mixture of Spanish Catholicism and Indian mysticism. Various saints and religious figures appear to the believers in the shape of everyday objects. more »
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A lively portrait of the mixed marriage beween a scholarly Sikh and his Australian-born wife, which unfolds against the complex social, political and religious events which tore the family apart. more »
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This is a funny, sometimes irreverent statement about growing up Asian-American in a white society. Suzanne's mother unwittingly fostered a "Chinese self-hatred" which her daughter had to overcome. more »
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This multi-festival film captures the xenophobia of a number of Americans living in California along the U.S.-Mexican border. more »
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The burning of a Sikh temple in upstate New York is the starting point of this film about arson, forgiveness and healing in the post 9/11 world. more »
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In post 9/11 America, civil liberties have been curtailed in the name of national security, and immigrants have been separated from their families. This film follows four families whose lives were permanently altered. more »
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The second film in the Springroll trilogy, this chronicles the filmmaker’s search through Asia for a cure for devastating allergies, which compromise his primal enjoyment of food. more »
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This film captures Mr. Pink, a unique and creative individual, who moved from Jamaica to Britain in the fifties. Inspired by a mixture of dreams, memories of childhood and his religion, he adorned his Victorian mansion to recreate the vivid colors of the Carribbean. more »
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Operation Babylift in 1975 helped thousands of South Vietnamese children to escape to America where they were adopted . Now in their mid -20's, the adoptees return to their birthplace in search of their roots. more »
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After being tortured and narrowly escaping execution during Liberia's civil war, Rosevelt Henderson makes his way to America to start his life over again in a strange country. After years of struggle and deprivation, Rosevelt and his family are finally able to enjoy the prosperity and freedom that drew them here. more »
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Korean American filmmaker Hak J. Chung, explores his roots by documenting his very engaging family. His father is a black veteran of the Korean War. His mother was a Korean war bride. more »
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When a young Japanese exchange student was shot to death on Halloween by a suburban homeowner, the world was horrified by another tragic event resulting from racism and the U.S. gun culture. more »
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Mira Nair's portrait of a family split between two worlds. The husband has come to America to seek his fortune, while his despairing wife is left ashamed and dependent on her in-laws for support. more »
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In the Mexican American community around the Rio Grande, folk healing is still an established practice. This film follows three healers, or curandera, as they use a variety of spiritual and herbal techniques. more »
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Seen through the eyes of his 14-year-old daughter, a Hmong Shaman, grapples with life in America. more »
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Using archival footage and interviews, the filmmaker creates a multi-layered portrait of growing up in New York’s El Barrio in the ‘30s and ‘40s more »
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Using old photographs and interviews, this film tells the remarkable tale of the courageous Asian women who left their families and all that was familiar to settle in the New World and marry men they had never met. The men had come to build the transcontinental railroad. The film is a testimony to the strength, resourcefulness and dignity of these women. more »
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This charming film contrasts ideas of marriage, courtship and divorce between generations and cultures. It follows Hindu Smita Acharyya and Catholic Remi Boudreau who, in order to escape the complications of a large, family wedding, decided to elope to Las Vegas. But they can't escape, and are married again, in a Bengali style wedding arranged by Smita's mother. more »
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Walking the Line offers a harrowing view of the chaos, absurdity and senseless deaths of Mexican illegals along the U.S. - Mexico border because some American citizens are taking the law into their own hands more »
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Nominated for an Academy Award this documentary makes a powerful statement about racism in working class America. Twenty-seven year old Vincent Chin was brutally murdered in a fight with a Detroit auto worker, who was at first let off with a suspended sentence and a small fine. The Chinese- American community successfully rallied for justice. more »
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This film examines the harrowing experiences of three Muslim-American teenagers effected by Special Registration, a post-9/11 security measure more »
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The third in the Springroll trilogy, this film interweaves a love of food with cultural and psychic survival more »
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The producers of Who Killed Vincent Chin? turn their cameras on their own families to make this inventive documentary on ethnic stereotypes. Clips from Hollywood movies reveal nearly a century of disparaging images. more »
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