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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Ewa Cybulski and her sister Magda sail to the U.S. in 1920, their hopes of the American dream are dashed when Magda is taken to a tuberculosis facility and Ewa falls prey to a man who forces her into prostitution.
2) Balseros
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The heartrending yet triumphant account of seven Cuban refugees who risked everything in pursuit of the American Dream. Follows a lively group of rafters, many of whom were detained at the Guantanamo naval base before being allowed onto American soil.
Publisher
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life takes some unexpected twists for a jaded New Yorker when the cash he was promised in exchange for marrying a Serbian woman for immigration purposes doesn't arrive.
5) The charmer
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
As the time on his immigrant visa is running out, a young Iranian man is desperately trying to find a woman that could gain him the right to stay in Denmark.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the town of Williston, North Dakota, a pastor begins a controversial "overnighters" program when he opens up the doors of his church to allow local down and out workers a place to sleep.
7) El norte
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Enrique and Rosa, brother and sister, flee persecution in Guatemala and head to the United States to start a new life.
9) Ellis Island
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Immigrants of every ethnic background recall their extraordinary adventures, historians explore the sometimes insensitive national policies, and the Ellis Island Oral History Project reveals what the immigration experience was actually like. Features rare photographs and film.
10) Fatima
Author
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Living in France, Moroccan-born single mother Fatima works cleaning jobs to put her two teenage daughters through school as she slowly assimilates into the culture and learns the language.
11) Fraulein
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Germanic
Description
Ana, a new employee in Reza's cafeteria, has high spirits that thaws Reza's joyless life in Zurich.
12) Farewell amor
Series
Criterion collection volume 1128
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years after they were separated by the civil war in Angola, the wife and teenage daughter of a New York taxi driver join him and struggle to build a life together.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Language
English
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...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The stories of four native-born Chinese women and their American-born daughters, showing the influence each has on the others' lives, and how they are the same and different.
15) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Eilis Lacey moves from Ireland to 1950s Brooklyn, she finds romance and new life, but events in Ireland call her back home and she finds she must choose between the two countries and lives she has made in each.
16) Monsieur Lazhar
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Algerian immigrant Bachir Lazhar is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom, helping the children overcome their grief as he deals with his own painful past.
Publisher
Groberg Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1856, two emigrant handcart companies and two wagon trains were caught in the October snows of Wyoming. They left too late from England in their 6,000 mile journey to the Salt Lake Valley. Nearly one fifth of these 1200 pioneers perished in the worst overland migration disaster in American history. The tragedy could have been catastrophic had a rescue effort not been launched immediately upon learning of their plight. More than a hundred wagon...
18) Queen of glory
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 minutes)
Language
English
Description
Sarah Obeng (Nana Mensah, Netflix’s “The Chair“), a doctoral student at Columbia University, is weeks away from following her very married boyfriend to Ohio when her mother suddenly passes away. Her inheritance? King of Glory, a small Christian bookstore serving a Ghanaian immigrant community in the Bronx. Tasked with arranging her mother's funeral according to her family's traditional expectations, Sarah must simultaneously navigate her plans...
19) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection volume 1212
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Language
Français
Description
"Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving...
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