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21) 100% Arabica
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a housing project located on the outskirts of Paris renamed "100% Arabica" by its inhabitants, African immigrants live side by side. In a world of exiles, poverty is the common denominator. Against this backdrop, director Zemmouri has brought together two of the biggest and most charismatic stars of the cross-cultural musical form known as Rai, Cheb Mami and Khaled, who play the leaders of a band called Rap Oriental.
23) Black girl
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
Français
Description
A young Senegalese woman moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally, into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Europe's racial make-up is quickly changing. French-Algerian filmmaker Yamina Benguigui is hoping to start a conversation about affirmative action - a policy that does not exist in France today. Benguigui's Le Plafond de Verre (Glass Ceiling) presents a series of sometimes very emotional first-hand accounts of discrimination against mostly black and North African Arab who are trying to find jobs.
25) Houdini
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Extended edition.
Language
English
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...
27) All of me
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Español
Description
Mexico and the United States share the greatest border between the first and third world. Thousands of migrants expose themselves to every danger as they travel north on a train called The Beast. That's where they meet the Patronas, a group of Mexican women who, every day since 1995, make food and toss it to the helpless as the train rushes by.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Bridge Between Two Worlds charts the remarkable journey of three newly arrived refugee children Filimon, Martin and Mujtaba through the last six months of an intensive English course at Highgate Primary School. Their stories, told from the children's own perspective, allow an audience unique access into their emotional world. Bridge Between Two Worlds a beautifully intimate portrait of their struggles and their triumphs marked by laughter, tantrums...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Why is your street address such a good predictor of your health? Latino and Southeast Asian immigrants like Gwai Boonkeut have been moving into long-neglected urban neighborhoods such as those in Richmond, California, a predominantly Black city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Segregation and lack of access to jobs, nutritious foods, and safe, affordable housing have been harmful to the health of long-time African American residents, and now the newcomers'...
Series
Criterion collection volume 527
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Special ed, widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
When the patriarch of a French-Arab family, Slimane, acts on his wish to open a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish couscous, the extended clan's passions and problems explode.
32) Maid in America
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
They clean other people’s homes and raise other families’ children — often leaving their own families behind. Maid in America is an intimate look into the lives of three Latina immigrants working as nannies and housekeepers in Los Angeles, three of the nearly 100,000 domestic workers living in that city today. These women’s stories vividly reveal how immigrants are redefining their roles, and underscores the vital role they play in many American...
33) Desierto
Publisher
Universal PIctures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017, ©2015.
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous US-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hosted by renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson, Season Two takes viewers on another inspiring journey across the U.S. to explore and celebrate the wide-ranging diversity of immigrant traditions and cuisine woven into American food and culture. Each week Marcus visits a new city to learn about the dynamic and creative ways a particular community has made its mark.
Series
Criterion collection volume 796
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Language
Swedish
Description
A monumental mid-nineteenth century epic that charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family's voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Includes bonus disc with special features.
36) School of Babel
Publisher
[Distributed by] Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
French documentary filmed over the course of one academic year in a secondary school in the diverse 10th district of Paris for immigrant chldren, 'La Grange aux Belles', following Brigitte Cervoni, who teaches non-French speaking children between the ages of eleven and 15 to read and write the language fluently, and her class of 24 diverse immigrant teen pupils who are recent émigrés to the French capital.
Publisher
Televisa
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
[Spanish language version].
Language
Español
Description
California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. A peculiar pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries has completely shut down. Oddly, the missing 14 million are all Hispanic.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Francis, an undocumented African immigrant living in Germany, struggles to resist the temptation of easy money in Berlin's underworld, but eventually gives in to an offer to work for psychopathic gangster, Reinhold.
39) Le Havre
Series
Criterion collection volume 619
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Director approved two-DVD special ed; widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
Marcel Marx, an old bohemian living in the French harbor city of Le Havre, stands up for a young African refugee when officials begin to pursue the boy for deportation.
40) Desierto
Publisher
Universal PIctures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous US-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.
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