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Showing 1 - 10 of 62 titles with a criteria of Subject is Asian-American Studies


Above and Below

Artist Tsherin Sherpa's remarkable 19-year journey from Tibetan Buddhist Thangka painter to global art superstar

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 35 minutes

Alice Street

In a rapidly gentrifying Oakland, the construction of a luxury condominium threatens a local mural, forcing the artists and neighborhood to rally to protect its history, voice, and land.

The Video Project | 2020 | 70 minutes

American Muslim

Five Muslim Americans, each once an immigrant and now a naturalized citizen, are forced to contend with a changing world in the Age of Trump

The Video Project | 2019 | 82 minutes

American Revolutionary

The life of Chinese-American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs

GOOD DOCS | 2013 | 82 minutes

And Then They Came For Us

Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the demise of civil liberties

GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 51 minutes

Baseball Behind Barbed Wire

Stripped of their constitutional rights, 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced into desolate camps, surrounded by guard towers and barbed wire. Ironically it was the All-American pastime of baseball that saved their sanity.

GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 34 minutes

Blurring the Color Line (53 min)

Stories of Chinese families in the Black South during Jim Crow disrupt the black and white narrative of America's racial history

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 53 minutes

Blurring the Color Line (77 min)

Stories of Chinese families in the Black South during Jim Crow disrupt the black and white narrative of America's racial history

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 77 minutes

Breaking the Model

Breaking the Model: Stories of Asian American History and Presence brings together four different short documentaries exploring immigration, genealogy, gentrification and resilience within America.

Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 47 minutes

The Celine Archive

In 1932, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community in Northern California. This is an attempt to uncover the real story, revealing Navarro’s feminism and resistance in a time when neither was embraced, as well as the silences that haunt Filipino-American communities to this day.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 69 minutes