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Showing 1 - 10 of 26 titles with a criteria of Subject is Asian-American Studies
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
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
Chinatown
Three senior activists fight for housing rights in DC’s historic Chinatown
GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 26 minutes
Company Town
A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the "sharing economy" to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco's future.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 77 minutes
Curtain Up!
While preparing to stage the musical Frozen, Chinatown kids discover their own cultural identities.
GOOD DOCS | 2020 | 68 minutes
Elder Voices
Japanese Americans, European Jews and peace activists who came of age during the Depression and WWII address the political storm clouds gathering today.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 49 minutes
Golden Gate Girls
In GOLDEN GATE GIRLS author and professor S. Louisa Wei tells the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent woman director in Hong Kong in the 1930’s.
Women Make Movies | 2014 | 90 minutes
Halving the Bones
HALVING THE BONES provides a spirited exploration of the meaning of family, history and memory, cultural identity and what it means to have been named after Babe Ruth!
Women Make Movies | 1995 | 70 minutes
