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1) In America
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Language
English
Description
Told by 11-year-old Christy, a child wise beyond her years. An Irish couple bring their two young daughters to America in search of a better life. Christy and her sister, Ariel find New York's Hell's Kitchen a place of magic where anything is possible. To their parents, it represents a place to begin anew. Carried by the girls' youthful hope and faith, the family finds the heart to live and love again.
2) The basket
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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.
3) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2014, c1991.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the wide-eyed adventures of a courageous little mouse names Fievel.
When Fievel Mouskewitz is lured out west by the entrepreneur Cat R. Waul, he discovers that the true plan is to turn the settlers into mouse burgers. Enlisting the aid of his cat friend Tiger, the two team up with the lawdog Wylie Burp to foil this "dastardly plot".
7) Ellis Island
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2001
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.
8) 7 soles
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
El Negro gets hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. When he claims this will be his last trip because he wants out of the business, his superiors become suspicious and send a younger smuggler to keep an eye on him. The two fight during the troubled crossing, and eventually lose part of their human cargo. El Negro now finds himself on the run from his former associates and the law.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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.
10) Golden Door
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Français
Description
In 1904 Sicily, Salvatore Mancuso (Vincenzo Amato) has recently lost his wife and dreams of a better future for himself, so he boards the next steamship for America where he meets a beautiful Englishwoman, Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg). This couple from vastly different cultures develop a distinctive bond and eventually fall in love. But once they make it to Ellis Island, will they be able to leave their pasts behind and start a bold new life together....
Author
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009, 1935
Language
English
Description
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, his...
14) Crossing over
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
An immigrations agent investigates a missing illegal while trying to maintain justice.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Rosso and his son Paul have been carving out a living in Brazil running a nightclub/brothel, but they both dream about getting out of the business. A suitcase left at their club with the means to bring the dreams alive may change their lives and fates.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The river and the wall follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel 1200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes. They set out to document the borderlands and explore the potential impacts of a border wall on the natural environment, but as the wilderness gives way to the more populated and heavily trafficked Lower Rio Grande Valley, they come...