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76 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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An exclusive portrait of a rarely-filmed religious community that separates itself from the world. It captures the day-to-day life of a people who have preserved their rural traditions. 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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Between Two Rivers shines a spotlight on Cairo, Illinois, a historic town still dogged by its history of civil rights unrest, located between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, where North meets South in America’s heartland. 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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Carmen Lomas Garza is a Chicana artist who creates images about the lives of Mexican Americans based on her memories and experiences growing up in South Texas. In this charming film, Carmen returns to Texas to revisit the people and places that inspired her work. more »
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This joyous, upbeat film explodes with the color, music, and pride of Carnival in America's largest Caribbean community, in New York. 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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Covered Girls provides a window into the lives of an animated group of Muslim American teenage girls in New York and challenges the stereotypes many Americans may have about this culture. more »
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A sympathetic and lyrical portrait of the Orthodox Jews of New York City, filmed as they observe the most important holidays of the year with prayer, song, ecstatic dancing and celebration, which speak to the history and meaning of their customs. more »
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This is the first full-length documentary about depression to consider the pervasive mood disorder from multi-ethnic viewpoints. 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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This engaging film shows how a dedicated teacher and community organizer in New Mexico brought a colorful, passionate Hispanic dance to America. more »
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Seven-year-old Jackson has light skin and curly hair and a remarkable heritage from both sides of his family. In this inspiring film, his two grandmothers from different racial, cultural and religious backgrounds, look back over lives to pass along to him their acquired wisdom. more »
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This intensely personal film traces the filmmaker’s search for identity within the culture of her Armenian parents and in the context of the larger multicultural society in which she lives. Weaving together archival footage and interviews with elderly survivors of the Genocide, it creates a deeply felt portrayal of a holocaust that the Turks deny. 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 farm workers 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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Good Fortune is a rare and intimate portrait of two vibrant Kenyan communities, one rural, one urban, battling to save their homes and businesses from large-scale development organizations more »
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Since 1986, thousands of Mexican men have legally entered the United States to work as part of the little-known H-2A guestworker program, put in effect during the Reagan administration. Filmed on both sides of the border, The Guestworker chronicles the lives of such farm workers and explores the issues surrounding the program.. more »
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Former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis fathered two sons. One was with a white woman with whom he was in love but felt he couldn't marry in the racial climate of the sixties. The other was with a black woman with whom he had an unhappy marriage. Hubert Davis, the film director, was the mixed-race son who for many years did not know his father. This film movingly explores the pain of sons growing up with an absent father and its effect on their mothers. more »
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This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection beween the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time. 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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Languages Lost and Found is uniquely thought provoking for those who take their language for granted. It will be a resource for courses in anthropology, communication, ethnomusicology, and the humanities in general. 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 1940s, an Asian American couple rose from the Chinatown nightclub circuit to the Ed Sullivan Show, watched by millions of Americans. This film details the couple's story and their struggles in an era of racism. 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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Aggravated by the influx of undocumented immigrants and fed up with the lack of government involvement, the self-appointed Minutemen take up watch along the border between the United States and Mexico. 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 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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This two-film series shows descendants of slaves exploring their African ancestry through DNA research and looks at how discoveries about their own history affects the participants. more »
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Descendants of slaves explore their African ancestry through DNA research and examine the emotional connections and that result. more »
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Two years after filming A Genetic Journey, this film picks up where the first award-winning film left off. It looks at how discoveries about their own genetic history have affected participants. Shot in the UK, USA, Africa, and Jamaica, this moving film continues three soul-searching journeys that raise fundamental questions about defining heritage. 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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How do you find a mate when your religion doesn't permit you to date? Muslims in Love shares the stories of devout American Muslim young people pursuing love and marriage. more »
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"My Father the Luo" is about a young woman with a similar multicultural heritage to President Barack Obama. Roma Ndolo’s mother is European and her father from Kenya. Like Obama, she journeys to Kenya to find her “African side.” Each of their fathers was from the Luo tribe. There is historic footage of Obama’s initial journey in 2006. Roma Ndolo is an example of a person successfully integrating her multicultural identity. 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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This is a documentary about people of mixed racial heritage, based on the filmmaker’s own search for identity and community. We are given an inside view of the emotional reality of being racially unclassifiable in a society obsessed with race. 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. In their mid-twenties, 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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This is the portrait of the life and work of choreographer and dancer Rudy Perez, who left Puerto Rico as a teenager, studied with the legendary New Dance Group in New York, and became a postmodern pioneer in the dance world. more »
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Korean American filmmaker Hak J. Chung explores his roots by documenting his engaging family, including his father, a black veteran of the Korean War and his mother, 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 fourteen-year-old daughter, a Hmong Shaman, grapples with life in America. more »
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This powerful film focuses on issues of race, culture and identity in families in which there have been transracial adoptions. 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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In 1947, Japanese American basketball player Wat Misaka was the first person of color to be drafted into the NBA. This film shares his journey to overcome discrimination during this turbulent period in history. 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. more »
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Walking the Line offers a harrowing view of the chaos, absurdity, and senseless deaths of Mexican illegal immigrants along the US-Mexico border when some American citizens take the law into their own hands. more »
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The filmmaker, an educated African-American journalist, celebrates her 35th birthday and acknowledges to her dismay that she is STILL unmarried. The fact is, there is a shortage of available professional men for women like her. more »
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The experiences of a generation of African-American women during the Great Migration north are described in this engaging portrait of a 77-year old washroom attendant. more »
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A touching portrait of an Iraqi refugee family, resettled in the US, that holds on to hope for a better life while dealing with the challenges of adjustment. more »
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This Academy Award-nominated film makes a powerful statement about racism in working-class America. It details the stark facts of the case of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man who was brutally murdered in a fight with a Detroit auto worker, and the ensuing trial and rally for justice. more »
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In recent years, more than one million Latin Americans in search of a better life have surged into the United States. The US has undergone one of its history’s most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts, with Latinos expected to emerge as an American majority by 2050. This film details how this influx has resulted in acute growing pains along with countless successes. 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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