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No Look Pass: The Story of Basketball Star Emily Tay
Item# 52591
© 2011
87 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-230-6
Balancing Hoop Dreams–style sports drama with a rich exploration of cultural and sexual identity, this film tells the story of Harvard point guard Emily Tay—specifically, her quest to play professiona...
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The American Dream of the Chinese
Item# 44774
© 2010
71 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-130-8
The American Dream has drawn millions of people to the New World with the promise that all can reach their full potential if they work hard enough, regardless of the circumstances of their birth. In t...
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Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Item# 49793
© 2008
86 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-607-9
Katrina Browne was shocked to discover that her distinguished Rhode Island forebears had been part of the largest slave-trading dynasty in American history. Once she started digging, Browne found the...
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The Slanted Screen: Asian Men in Film and Television
Item# 41296
© 2006
55 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-824-7
This award-winning documentary explores portrayals of Asian men in American cinema, chronicling the experience of actors who have struggled against Hollywood’s ethnic stereotyping and discriminatory p...
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Time of Fear
Item# 44165
© 2005
60 Min.
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During World War II, 110,000 Japanese-Americans were interned in relocation camps across the United States. This documentary details the lives of 16,000 of these men, women, and children who were forc...
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
Item# 36510
© 2003
254 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-5800-0
What does it mean to become American? What is lost and what is gained in the process? In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, this set of powerful Bill Moyers documentaries...
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
Item# 31779
© 2003
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-2352-7
What does it mean to become American? What is lost and what is gained in the process? In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, this powerful eight-part Bill Moyers series exp...
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Between Two Worlds
Item# 31327
© 2003
89 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-6122-2
In the early 1880s, abetted by the Chinese Exclusion Act, a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment swept across America. This program examines the exclusion years through the stories of Chinese Americans and...
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Gold Mountain Dreams
Item# 31326
© 2003
89 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-6121-5
In the 1840s, civil war and famine in southern China drove thousands of young men to seek their fortune in the California Gold Rush. This program traces the Chinese experience in America, from their w...
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No Turning Back
Item# 31328
© 2003
88 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-6123-9
The new immigration laws of 1965 were a turning point for the Chinese in America and allowed a new wave of immigrants to enter the country. Chinese American life has flourished in the years since. Nar...
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