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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a Mexican who believes the stories of unlimited opportunity in America. Once he arrives in the United States he must face reality. Down but not out he is determined to succeed on the American's terms.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Renato, a successful Mexican aviation executive, is shocked to discover he has an American half-brother he never knew about, the free-spirited Asher. The two very different half-brothers are forced on a road journey together masterminded by their ailing father, tracing the path their father took as an immigrant from Mexico to the US.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
7) Terraferma
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 pages ; 14 x 19 cm)
Description
The story of an uncontaminated Sicilian island inhabited by fisherman. Still barely touched by tourism, the islanders have begun to alter their mentality and behavior as they realize the economic potential of this new industry. At the same time, they deal with illegal aliens flooding the island and a new law requiring them to turn back undocumented people seeking aid.
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "On the Seventh Day, a fiction feature from director Jim McKay, follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn over the course of seven days. Bicycle delivery guys, construction workers, dishwashers, deli workers and cotton candy vendors, they work long hours six days a week and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Sunset Park. José, a bicycle delivery worker, is the team's captain -...
9) Colossus
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Jamil Sunsin, this is a modern-day immigrant tale of one family's desperate struggle after deportation leads to family separation and the elusive search for the American dream. It is an intimate portrait, a rare look into the aftermath of deportation and family separation, amidst the current backlash against America's immigrants.
10) Houdini
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Before David Blaine and David Copperfield, there was one man whose name was synonymous with being the master of illusion and escape - Harry Houdini. It follows the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin. The drama will chronicle the life of a man who can defy death through his stunts, his visions...
11) A certain woman
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A feature documentary about one woman – Shirael Pollack – and her journey as a female entrepreneur in the 21st Century. From humble beginnings as a first-generation immigrant in the melting pot that is the United States, Shirael Pollack lives her life by the motto that a living is what you get, but a life is what you give.
12) Fatima
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fatima lives on her own with two daughters to support: 15-year old Souad, a teenager in revolt, and 18-year old Nesrine, who is starting medical school. Fatima speaks French poorly and is constantly frustrated by her daily interactions with her daughters. Her pride and joy, they are also a source of worry. To ensure the best possible future for them, she works odd hours as a cleaning woman. One day, she takes a fall on the stairs. On leave, Fatima...
13) Bombshell
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The tale of an immigrant and his family trying to live the American Dream in the 1980s and expand their business amidst rampant violence, urban decay, and corrupt city officials during one of the most dangerous years in the city's history.
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm
Description
An American Pickle stars Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling labourer who immigrates to America in 1919 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he learns that his only...
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (166 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After a bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.
17) An American tail
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tilo is an immigrant from India, and a shopkeeper, who is also the "Mistress of Spices." The spices which she gives to her customers help them to satisfy their needs and desires. Her life changes when she falls in love with Doug, an American man.
19) Corner store
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. This documentary introduces Yousef Elhaj, beloved shop owner, Palestinian immigrant, long-distance father --and his struggle to make good on the promise of a better life for his family. Ten years ago during the second Intifada, Yousef left his wife and small children in Bethlehem to start a new life for them in San Francisco. For the past decade he has worked day and night to build a small business, save money, and become part of his adopted...
20) Farewell amor
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and generational divides to build a life together. Told in three...
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