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| No. | Title | Description |
| 8 | Asian American Film Symposium: Discussion of Carved in Silence and Pak Beung on Fire | 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). |
| 9 | Asian American Film Symposium: Discussion of the Wash | A panel of film critics discuss the film "The Wash", a close look at a Japanese-American family living in California. Topics include interracial marriages, the dynamic relationship between man and woman, and the combining of cultures. |
| 193 | Asian American Identity | N/A |
| 184 | Asian American Playhouse: Sung Rno Plays | N/A |
| 53 | Asian American Scholar’s Conference (1986) | N/A |
| 3 | Asian American Studies | Scholars discuss institutional strategies for developing Asian American Studies programs. Early programs on the west coast are mentioned as well as the importance of considering each campus and its conditions in setting up the programs. |
| 54 | Asian American Writer’s Conference, Parts 1-6 (1990) | N/A |
| 27 | Asian Americans in Higher Education I | Asian American Studies Program symposium on Asian Americans and higher education covering a wide array of topics such as model minority, admission, fields of study, and recent immigrants. |
| 28 | Asian Americans in Higher Education II | Asian American Studies Program symposium on Asian Americans and higher education covering a wide array of topics such as model minority, admission, fields of study, and recent immigrants. |
| 29 | Asian Americans in Higher Education III | Asian American Studies Program symposium on Asian Americans and higher education covering a wide array of topics such as model minority, admission, fields of study, and recent immigrants. |
| 126 | Asian Americans: Education, Culture, Minorities | |
| 206 | Asian Pacific Islanders Press Conference | |
| 191 | Audrey Hepburn Remembered (1993) | Audrey Hepburn was one of movies best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication, and an enduring aura of youthful innocence. As Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she spoke for the world's suffering children and families, earning an affection and admiration that only increased with news of her untimely death. From the star herself we learn of her career, and the family and friendships that were her priority. Directors Billy Wilder, Blake Edwards and Stanley Donen, composer Henry Mancini, actors Gregory Peck, Mel Ferrer, George Peppard and Roger Moore, fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy and others, join Rob Wolders and Sean Ferrer to help complete this loving portrait. With clips from Roman Holiday, Sabrina, War And Peace, Funny Face, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Charade, My Fair Lady, Two For the Road, Robin And Marian and more. |
| 80 | Banana Split (1991) | A first person narrative about growing up with a Caucasian father and Chinese mother. The narrator talks about his experiences with racial stereotypes on both sides, and his own conflicting views on his biracial identity. |
| 67 | Bean Sprouts Series (#101-105) | Loni Ding's critically acclaimed children's series. a)'Try It, You'll Like It" Examines hwo Chinese American grade school children growing up in San Francisco are encouraged to expand their perspectives and attitudes by 'trying' other cultures through contact with children of other ethnic groups. b)'Boys and Girls, Girls and Boys' The differing roles and responsibilities of boys and girls both within and outside of the family are explored. Elementary school boys and girls discuss adn compare their perspectives on gender. Familial interaction between parents and their Chinese American children also illustrate parental expectations of boys and girls. c)'What Can You Show Me?' d)'Moving On, Moving Out' e)'Growing Up From Here' |
| 185 | Becoming American Part I: The Chinese Experience | In every immigrant group, each generation finds a balance between the values and practices of its heritage, and the mores of its adopted country. What is lost and what is gained, both personally and culturally, when one sheds part of one's heritage to make way for a new self-identity? |
| 186 | Becoming American Part II | |
| 187 | Becoming American Part III The Chinese Experience | Chinese United States History 20th century Chinese Americans History 20th century Chinese Americans Legal status, laws, etc Emigration and immigration law United States History 20th century Chinese Americans Cultural assimilation Chinese Americans Social conditions 20th century United States Emigration and immigration Government policy History 20th century United States Race relations United States |
| 198 | Behind the Rising Sun | Cornell-educated Taro Seki returns to Japan just as the war party gains control. He hopes to work for American engineer O'Hara, and falls for his secretary Tama, but he is drafted. War service in China finally hardens Taro to atrocities, and he returns to Japan a changed man. His father, now a cabinet minister, feels remorse at what war has done to his son and country, but too late to save Taro's foreign friends. |
| 492 | Being Cyrus | Orphaned at a very young age Cyrus and his sister live in an orphanage in Jamshedpur. This is how their youth is spent. When they grow up both take to different paths. Cyrus travels to Panchgani to be an apprentice to renowned sculptor, Dinshaw Sethna. Upon arrival there he is met with Dinshaw and his wife Katy. Cyrus finds out that the Sethna family consists of Dinshaw's brother, Farokh, who lives in Bombay, with his much younger wife, Tina, and his semi-senile elderly dad, Fardounji, who owns the building. Katy asks Cyrus to visit her father-in-law with some chocolates. Cyrus is shocked to find out that Fardounji lives in a shabby back-room of the flat where Farokh lives in luxury. Cyrus also finds out that Fardounji is often abused by Farokh and Tina who have placed a number of restrictions on him. It is here that a devious plot will be formed - a plan so deadly that it will result in the dramatic killings of two people. Watch what happens when the two murders take place, and how Police Inspector Maninder Lovely goes about to solve this case. |
Video Listing
Available in the Asian American Resource Center