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Selected Documentaries

Produced by Downtown Community TV Center http://www.dctvny.org:

Chinatown: Immigrants in America [videorecording] :
A portrait of New York City's "Chinatown" showing the widespread poverty, dilapidated housing, poor health conditions, language and other cultural barriers.

Canal Street [videorecording] :
First stop in America. Less than a mile long, Canal street is the dirtest and noisiest, but also the most vibrant and dynamic street in New York City. The producers take us on an insider's perspective of life on this busy street. From the bustling underground world of counterfeit goods, street vendors, shanty towns and sweatshops, witness the struggle of hardworking people subject not only to the difficulties of their labor but to a street with a law of its own.

Snakeheads [videorecording] :
T he Chinese mafia and the new slave trade. The video examines the lives of Chinese who pay smugglers or "snakeheads" to smuggle them to the United States.

Ancestors in the Americas [videorecording] : Produced by Loni Ding.

• Part I: coolies, sailors, settlers. The untold story of how Asians--Filipino, Chinese, Asian Indian--first arrived in the Americas. Film crosses centuries and oceans from the 16th century Manila-Acapulco trade, to the Opium War, to the 19th century plantation coolie labor in South America and the Caribbean.
• Part II: Chinese in the Frontier West.

Chinatown [videorecording] :
A one-hour documentary. Although focused on San Francisco neighborhood, it is in many ways the story of all Chinese in America. For decades, San Francisco's Chinatown was the largest community of Chinese outside Asia, and yet was a neighborhood forced to be independent, even isolated, from the rest of society.

Chinese Gold [videorecording] : The Chinese of the Monterey Bay. Produced by Gold Mountain Productiona ; directed by Mark Schwartz and Geoffrey Dunn ; written by Geoffrey Dunn.
No physical evidence exists today of Santa Cruz's original Chinatown, where thousands of Chinese immigrated. The legacy of their enormous struggle is evident in the historic success of the area's railroad, fishing and agriculture industries. Includes historic footage and photographs, and interviews with Chinese emigrants and Chinese Americans.

*These resources were prepared by Professor Pei-te Lien of the University of Utah's Political Science and Ethnic Studies Departments.