Immigration at the Movies
I've started keeping a "database" of films related to immigration.
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Asian immigrant experience
Asian Americans is a five-hour film series - PBS - 2013 - (available on PBS Learning and Thirteen Passport)
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (2003)
Coolies, Sailors, Settlers, Voyage to the New World - CET Films - 2001 - 64mins (requested on Kanopy)
American Experience: The Chinese Exclusion Act - PBS - 2018 - 116mins (available on Kanopy)
YouTube playlist on Chinese (Becoming American: The Chinese Experience)
Life and Debt
The Harvest
Maid in America
Latino immigrant experience
LATINO AMERICANS is a landmark six-hour documentary - PBS -
Episode 1: Foreigners in Their Own Land (54mins)
Episode 2: Empire of Dreams
Episode 3: War and Peace
Episode 4: The New Latinos
Episode 5: Prejudice and Peril
Episode 6: Peril and Promise
Galisky, A. (Director). (2014). 14: Dred Scott, Wong Kim Ark and Vanessa Lopez [Video file]. Graham Street Productions. Retrieved May 30, 2023, from Kanopy.
Should citizenship be a birthright? Why some GOP candidates say no
A Class Apart (2009) (Hernandez vs Texas)