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Invisible Valley weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snowbirds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California's Coachella Valley. In exploring the Valley's history as well its imperiled future, this riveting documentary uncovers an imminent environmental and social crisis, and the looming consequences for the people who call it home.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 pages)
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Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of Europe, crossed by thousands of migrants in the last...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Durante casi dos décadas, miles de migrantes centroamericanos han perdido sus sueños, miembros e incluso sus vidas al intentar cruzar ilegalmente México. Cruzar México es el desafío insuperable que enfrentan todos aquellos cuyo único objetivo es llegar a Estados Unidos. La pesadilla comienza en el momento en que pisan suelo mexicano. Aquí deben subirse a un tren de carga conocido simplemente como "La Bestia" o "La Bestia", un viaje agonizante...
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chronicles the rise of Jesus "El Matador" Chavez through the professional boxing ranks to number one contender for the World Championship when the U.S. government enacted two tough immigration laws that ordered the immediate deportation of all non-U.S. citizens with a criminal conviction. Despite his clear rehabilitation Jesus, with a prior conviction for armed robbery, was deported to Mexico
El talentoso boxeador Jesús "El Matador" Chávez encuentra...
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. Canadian filmmaker Jeanette Kong weaves together the strands of her Chinese-Jamaican identity as she recounts her father's immigration journey, from China to Jamaica, and then eventually to Toronto, Canada. Drawing on her dad's eloquent journal writing, and connecting with family around the globe, the filmmaker paints a deeply honest portrait of the Hakka migration experience. Why brave the hardships of immigration, not once, but twice in a...
8) Aliyah
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alex, a young Parisian drug dealer, longs to make a new beginning by opening a restaurant in Tel Aviv with his cousin and make "aliyah", the immigration of Diaspora Jews to Israel, but he must face conflicts that include leaving the city he loves, drug dealing, his complicated love life with a new woman, and a troubled older brother whom he is always financially rescuing.
9) The basket
Pub. Date
[2001], c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A picturesque story of the landscapes through the territory of the human heart. A Pacific Northwest logging community in 1918 struggles to come to terms with the pain and prejudice of wartime America. Weaving an unlikely thread of forbidden love, racial tension, German opera lessons and a new game called basketball.
10) Icebox
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Óscar, a twelve-year-old Honduran boy who is forced to flee his home and seek asylum in the United States, only to find himself trapped in the U.S. immigration system.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as "Colonel" Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film,...
12) Saint Judy
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood as she represents and fights for Asefa Ashwari, an Afghan woman who was forced to flee her home country after being persecuted by the Taliban for opening a school for girls. Despite setbacks and losses, their efforts culminate in arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as they seek to save not only Asefa's life, but countless others across the world.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (286 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rory O'Manion is a hot-headed and rebellious farmer, who has become increasingly fed up with his meager existence in British-controlled Ireland during the Great Potato Famine of the 19th century. He ironically meets and falls in love with Rachel Clement, the feisty daughter of a local English landlord, but he decides to set off to establish a new life in America without her.
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This powerful documentary exposes the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. From the territorial expansionist policies that decimated the young economies of Mexico, Puerto Rico and Cuba, to the covert operations that imposed oppressive military regimes in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Harvest of Empire provides an unflinching look at...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A feature-length documentary about the miraculous journey of Salvadoran immigrant Laz Ayala's life or death path to U.S. citizenship, the challenges of present-day immigration, and his mission to humanize immigrants and reform immigration for the benefit of all.
16) Brooklyn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
18) The immigrant
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 20 min.) : si., black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Charlie Chaplin meets Edna Purviance and her mother as steerage passengers on the boat to America. Neither has prospered in the New World when they meet by chance in a restaurant and, after a series of wild misadventures, are rescued just in time to pay for his meal and buy a marriage license.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The film follows a carnival owner, a labor-recruiter, and workers from a small town in Mexico who join the carnival legally on seasonal visas ... an honest on-the-ground portrait of the financial, emotional, and physical challenges they all face"--Container.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodiscc (52 min.) : sound, color, 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Migration is frequently a multi-generational experience for families; not an individual choice or the particular economic decision of a single family, but rather a collective practice, repeated again and again by both individuals and communities. The Time of the Fireflies portrays this interconnected history through the narrative of Miguel and his family, questioning long-held misconceptions about immigration.
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