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Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Follow chef Marcus Samuelsson as he immerses himself in diverse immigrant communities and cuisines in cities across the US. In each hour, Marcus will travel to a different city and dive into a new food culture. He'll discover the important immigrant histories - and delicious culinary traditions - that shape the way America eats today.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Joseph Armagh is a poor Irish immigrant who is determined to create a better life for his family. He arrives in America in the mid-19th century. Through personal struggle, heartache and perseverance, he becomes one the the wealthest and most powerful men in the country.
63) Yana's friends
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
עברית
Description
Three parallel stories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
In this romantic story, Romanian immigrant George Ivonescu sneaks onto the Paramount studio lot in Hollywood to sell a story idea to director Saxon. Desperate for $500, George convinces Saxon to listen to the true story of George's life for the past year. At the outbreak of World War II, George flees from Europe to Mexico, from where he hopes to gain entry into the USA. Due to the quota system he is told he must wait five to eight years to immigrate....
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
John Rebus is a hard bitten detective who pursues truth on the gritty streets of modern-day Edinburgh. When a beautiful young seamstress goes missing, the search take Rebus and Clarke to the mean, melting streets of Knoxland Estate, the high-rise project that houses Edinburgh's Kosovan immigrant community.
66) Man push cart
Series
Criterion collection volume 1066
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his home country of Pakistan, Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi, elements of whose own life story were woven into the script) was a famous rock star. Now a widower separated from his son and adrift in New York, he works long hours selling coffee and bagels...
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture. Accompanying CD presents "a musical tapestry complementing the emigrant's...
68) Fraulein
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 8
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Fraulein is the story of two Balkan refugees. Reza owns a restaurant and has lived in Switzerland for 25 years. Ana is a Bosnian who breezes into Reza's life and injects both joy and discontent. Happiness describes a Polish American woman who buys a box of happiness in a store and cannot decide what to do with it.
70) In between days
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A teenager recently transplanted from South Korea to a snowbound North American city struggles to find her way in a strange land of new faces.
71) Man push cart
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former rock star in his native Pakistan, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. Every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.
72) Happy cleaners
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When the Choi family loses their dry cleaning business, they learn to love each other to survive the crisis and heartaches that they cause each other.
73) Entre nos
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Mariana brings her two children from Colombia to New York to reunite with her husband, only to be abandoned by him. Desperate and alone, Mariana must find a way to survive and care for her family.
74) Hester Street
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish woman comes to America in the 1890s and discovers that her husband has given up the ways of the old country, gotten a new girlfriend, and started a new life.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
A ferociously funny movie about the existential angst of an expat. Yoav, a disaffected young Israeli, flees Tel Aviv for Paris to start a new life. Desperate to erase his origins, Yoav sees France as his only hope for salvation. He vows not to utter a single word of Hebrew, his French dictionary becoming his constant companion. He is swiftly befriended by a strange young French couple who enmesh him in a very Parisian love triangle. Based on writer-director...
78) Ask the dust
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young Italian would-be writer comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself. While there, he meets Camilla, who is hoping to marry a rich American. Both are trying to escape the stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California.
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Kitchen mayhem, irate customers and potential romance unfolds as Robert, an illegal immigrant working at a Chinese restaurant in New York as a waiter, desperately searches for a way to stay in the United States. He reluctantly agrees to meet an American woman, Claire, with the hopes of marrying to obtain a green card. Will Robert obtain his green card before immigration catches up with him?
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Combining genealogical detective work with cutting-edge DNA science, the programs illuminate the struggles and triumphs of Americans from many ethnic backgrounds. Taken as a whole, they share the history of our country and help define what it means to be American--Container.
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