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Publisher
Lowedown Productions
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Carved in Silence tells the story of Chinese immigrants who were detained at the United States Immigration Station at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay during the little known Chinese Exclusion era. The film examines the genesis of racially discriminatory immigration policies, its reality, and its consequences. Interviews are intercut with historical footage and dramatic re-enactments to powerfully translate the impact of public policies into human...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1124
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Blu-ray edition
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mystery man, a murder, and a wad of missing cash in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the ingredients of classic film noir for the streets of contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. When their business partner disappears with the money they had planned to use for a cab license, driver Jo and his nephew Steve scour the city's back alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese restaurants to track him down. But what begins as a search for a missing...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"To investigate a young woman's claim that her brother has been framed for murder, Chan invites himself to a stately English manor, where guests gathering for a fox hunt unwittingly harbor the real killer!"--Container.
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.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Chan battles an entire conspiracy - filled with multiple murders - wherein the prime suspect appears to have committed crimes in three places at once!"--Container.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Chinese-American police officer Peter Liang kills an innocent, unarmed Black man, Akai Gurley in a darkened stairwell of a New York City housing project, it sets off a firestorm of emotion and calls for accountability. When he becomes the first NYPD officer convicted of an on-duty shooting in over a decade, the fight for justice becomes complicated, igniting one of the largest Asian-American protests in history, disrupting a legacy of solidarity,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 160 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The famous detective grapples with supernatural forces, as well as a murder mystery in this classic, which also features a young Rita Hayworth"--Container.
11) Boogie
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alfred "Boogie" Chin, a basketball phenom living in Queens, N.Y., dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals, and the burden of expectation.
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