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1) Hawaii
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a New England farm boy who has decided that the Lord has commanded him to go to Hawaii in order to Christianize its inhabitants.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
9 DVDs (1,637 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The first-ever dramatic miniseries to appear on American television spans decades and generations to trace the epic story of the Jordache family from 1945 to the late 1960s.
Series
Criterion collection volume 527
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Special édition, widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When the patriarch of a French-Arab family, Slimane, acts on his wish to open a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish couscous, the extended clan's passions and problems explode.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Destination America looks at the driving forces that have compelled individuals to immigrate to America and, in particular, the immigration of women who have come to this country in search of opportunity and basic human rights denied them in their homelands.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed the border into the U.S. But when his wife left him, Carlos's only goal became to make sure his son Luis was given the opportunities he never had. A story that follows father and son as they embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover that family is the most important part of the American dream.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. turns again to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 11 renowned celebrities including Meryl Streep and Queen Noor. Looking to the wider immigrant experience, Professor Gates follows the threads of his guests' lives back to their origins. Along the way, the many stories he uncovers illuminate the American experience.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Parvez, a cab driver who left Pakistan in search of a better life, must choose between his friendship with a woman not his wife, and his son, who has adopted increasingly traditional beliefs.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Standard format (1.33:1).
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (194 min.) : black and white and tinted, sound ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
None
Description
Films that address the immigrant experience in the United States in the early twentieth century.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
10) Amreeka
Publisher
National Geographic Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her that her family has been granted a U.S. green card.
11) An American tail
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Russian mouse lands in New York in the 1880s, only to be separated from his family. He must now learn to live on the streets and evade the mean cats.
12) The namesake
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The son of Indian immigrants born in America wants to fit in with fellow New Yorkers, but his family is unwilling to let go of their traditional ways.
Publisher
Sisu Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
A tiny Israeli village in the Negev Desert is home to people from both Morocco and India. They have poverty in common and little else. Two families will be brought together by the unlikely friendship of daughters. There is the sultry Moroccan, Nicole, and the thoughtful Indian, Sara. The women's youth and lust for freedom overcome cultural prejudices. For this community and these two friends, the road to harmony is full of twists and turns.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98, 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
After surviving his perilous journey, Francis vows to be a good man, but he soon realizes how difficult it is to be righteous while undocumented in Germany without papers, without nationality, and without a work permit. When he receives an enticing offer for easy money from the psychopathic gangster Reinhold, Francis initially resists temptation, but eventually, he is sucked into Berlin's underworld and his life spirals out of control.
16) Green card
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience, thinking it's going to be hassle-free. She'll get to live in the apartment of her dreams; he'll get to live in the U.S. But before they know it, the two opposites encounter far more difficulties than most married couples could ever imagine, and worse yet, this mismatched twosome just might be falling in love.
17) Nostalghia
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (125 min.) : sound, black and white with color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Traveling through Italy with an interpreter to research a composer's life, a poet haunted by visions of his home and family in Russia meets a hermit fixated on the spiritual decay of humanity who claims he knows the secret of its salvation.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
Español
Description
Alfredo Gasper, a dissatisfied Buenos Aires newspaperman partners with Paar Liudas, a clever Hungarian refugee, to create a bogus correspondence school exploiting the hopes of would-be journalists. As their scheme succeeds, a mystery woman from Liudas' past sparks Gasper's suspicions: his charming colleague may be playing him for a sucker. Gasper soon finds himself plotting the perfect crime - but fate has many twists in store.
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An autobiographical comedy about a boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his mail-order bride mother, and their escape to Seattle in the '90s. The film is an immigrant's take on the American Dream, proving that life is often stranger than fiction.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Burmese
Description
Two Burmese immigrants flee their country's civil war in search of a new life in Thailand. Finding work, they focus their efforts on acquiring Thai ID cards. However, when one achieves this goal, their relationship is doomed.
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