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| No. | Title | Description |
| 208 | 79 Springtimes Handi the 13 | |
| 96 | A Chief in Two Worlds | A documentary that focuses on a Samoan resident of Los Angeles and follows him and his family on a trip to Western Samoa, where he goes through a formal bestowal ceremony and becomes of a member of the traditional Samoan chieftainship of the matai system. Offers the viewer a vivid profile of a man coming to terms with two different cultural traditions and the role of traditional cultural and political structures in new transnational contexts. |
| 42 | A Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance | This film chronicles the history of those Filipino Americans who immigrated to America between 1924 and 1935 to toil on the farmlands of California. These immigrants created close-knit bachelor societies where cockfights, poker games, and dance halls served as their entertainment. Interviews with immigrants and archival footage depict their spirit and vitality. (Note: Also in the Cross Current Media Collection). |
| 157 | A Thousand Pieces of Gold | It is the true story of a Chinese-American pioneer woman who overcomes poverty, footbinding, and slavery to build a life of relative freedom in the American Northwest. From Shanghai to San Francisco, Lalu Nathoy's courageous journey is an important contribution to the history of Asian pioneer women on the American frontier. |
| 181 | Adrenaline Drive | This parody of popular Japanese teenage girls' romances includes slapstick in a comedy of robbers versus robbers. When a gas leak explodes at a yakuza's headquarters, a shy, timid nurse and a meek rental car clerk gain possession of a briefcase of blood-soaked money. The rest is chase and escape, as the nurse is transformed to glamorous heroine and outsmarts the gangsters eager to recover the loot. |
| 105 | AKA Don Bonus | This diaristic documentary follows Sokly Ny, an under-priveledged and under-represented immigrant minority student, through his final year of high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ny, A.K.A. Don Bonus, provides commentary on his life, recounting the difficulty and triumph of his everyday experience. The drama builds to a crescendo as the day of his graduation ceremonies corresponds with the criminal trial of his brother. |
| 90 | All Dressed In White | An informal documentary about the stresses and problems of planning an American-Indian wedding. The bride is torn between wearing a traditional western white wedding dress and a sari. |
| 150 | All Orientals Look the Same and Black Sheep | This video turns this racial myth on its head, provoking the viewer to confront stereotyping and prejudices about Asians and Pacific islanders |
| 499 | American Adobo | The title of this romantic comedy refers to a popular Filipino dish whose ingredients include pork, vinegar, garlic and fish sauce and whose ritual preparation regularly brings together five Filipino-American friends around a dinner table in Queens. The dish becomes an overwrought metaphor for group dynamics and cultural assimilation. And as the film loses its grip on its multiple stories, the title begins to suggest an overheated stew bubbling out of its pot. By the end of the film, the intersecting dramas and histrionic performances have spilled all over the floor, so to speak. |
| 93 | American Chinatown (1981) | American Chinatown discusses Locke, California, founded in 1912 and originally a labor camp that became home to a middle-class Chinese community. Now, politicians and Hong Kong developers are fighting to control its future, but few care about the needs of the remaining elderly. |
| 101 | Ancestors in the Americas: Chinese in the Frontier West: An American Story (Part II) | The second of a three-part series documenting the Chinese experience in the United States, Ancestors in the Americas: Chinese in the Frontier West follows recent immigrants to Gold country. As the first wave of non-white foreigners to arrive on American soil freely, the Chinese fought long and hard for their share of the wealth. From 1850-1882, the Chinese went from a poor and maltreated collection to a strong and viable part of the population. By 1960, they were contributing over 50 percent of California's total revenue. This documentary follows the progress of a courageous people through the turbulent construction of a nation |
| 101 | Ancestors in the Americas: Coolies, Sailors, Settlers (Part I) | This documentary looks at the enormous contributions made by Asian peoples in the development of North and South America, contributions that go beyond the stereotypical notions that the Asians were but laborers, launderers and owners of exotic restaurants. Filmmaker Loni Ding, takes a rather freewheeling approach to showing the extent of Asian diaspora was important in establishing the countries, quickly jumping between past, present and future to create more of a provocative impression rather than and endless stream of historical facts. ~ |
| 165 | Angry Little Asian Girl | The Angry Little Asian Girl gets to say and do all the things her creator, 24-year-old Lela Lee, never could. That's what makes the animated strip so liberating and, in a strange way, endearing. |
| 151 | Animal Appetites | A look at the 1989 Long Beach trial of wo Cambodian immigrants chared wih killing a dog for food. |
| 168 | Anna and the King | English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the 58 children of King Mongkut. Each has preconceived ideas about the other’s world. Amid the danger of political unrest, their respect for each other turns into something more. |
| 120 | APALA: Organizing, Workers Rights and Civil Rights | Informational video highlighting the history, achievement and goals of hte Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. |
| 549 | Apocalypse Now Redux | Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe. |
| 7 | Asian American Film Symposium (AAFS): Panel Discussion on Asian American Film Scene | Asian Americans in the field of visual communications discuss their involvement in the second annual Cornell Asian American Film Symposium. They discuss the origin of Asian American media, public television, and other aspects of their work. |
| 11 | Asian American Film Symposium, Conclusion | See summary of #7 Asian American Film Symposium. Asian Americans in the field of visual communications discuss their involvement in the second annual Cornell Asian American Film Symposium. They discuss the origin of Asian American media, public television, and other aspects of their work. |
| 10 | Asian American Film Symposium: Discussion of "Carved in Silence" | A panel of Vietnamese and Caucasian scholars critique "Carved in Silence", a movie about the sacrifice and endurance of Vietnamese women. Filmmaker Supachal Surongsan discusses his work in producing Forbidden City, U.S.A and facilitates discussion on it. (Note: Sound is missing in the middle). |
Video Listing
Available in the Asian American Resource Center