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| No. | Title | Description |
| 498 | Charlotte Sometimes | Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young roommate. |
| 21 | Chinatown: Immigrants in America | This comprehensive documentary explores the richness, hardships, and sheer complexity of political, economic, and social life in New York City’s Chinatown. |
| 493 | Chu Chin Chow | The well-known merchant Kasim is preparing to give a lavish banquet for the wealthy Chu Chin Chow, who is on his way from China. But the slave girl Zahrat sends a secret message about this to the bandit chief Abu Hasan, and Hasan and his gang of thieves rob and kill Chu Chin Chow while he is still traveling. Meanwhile, Kasim's brother Ali Baba discovers Hasan's secret cave, and helps himself to some of the thieves' treasure. While Hasan impersonates Chu Chin Chow at Kasim's court, Kasim persuades his brother to tell him where his sudden wealth came from. Even as the greedy Kasim slips out to see what he can find at Hasan's cave, Hasan is plotting further violence and thievery. |
| 24 | Color of Honor, The (1998) | A collective portrayal of Japanese American youth in WWII. It covers the voices of those who wrestled with the wrenching contradiction of being incarcerated by their own government, yet called to serve in its military. It focuses on soldiers of the 442nd regimental combat team and the Military Intelligence Service, as well as draft resisters and army protesters. |
| 98 | Coming into Passion: Song for a Sansei/The Love Thang Trilogy | Just a Love Thang, Skydyking and Eating Mango, by New York video artist Mari Keiko Gonzalez, are three sensual four-minute vignettes portraying aspects of Asian Pacific lesbian lifestyles and concerns. Positive, political, educational and uplifting, this pioneering work makes visible a "sisterhood" usually grossly stereotyped if not simply overlooked. |
| 57 | Conquering America: Bharati Mukherjee (1994) | Bharati Mukherjee writes vivid, sensual and troubling stories about America's newest immigrants, Asians like herself. Mukherjee's early novels spoke from India, the old world she left behind to marry an American. Upon arriving in America, she set out to capture the New World experiences of Asian immigrants. In this program with Bill Moyers, Mukherjee discusses America's newest immigrants and the building resentment and tensions between our country's various cultures. “We've come to America,” she says, “in a way, to take over. To help build a new culture.” |
| 50 | Cornell University Conference - Community | N/A |
| 174 | Crimson Kimono (1959) | Classic, hard-to-find Sam Fuller pic is intriguing noir about two detective partners, one caucasian and one Japanese, who try to solve a complicated murder case. Unfortunately, trouble arises when along the way, both of them fall in love with the key witness! |
| 156 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Control Lu Mu Bi, Shu Lien, Jen, and Dark Cloud as you take part in the story of the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This time however, your actions decide the final ending. |
| 78 | Cruisin' J-Town | A documentary about Hiroshima, a group of three Asian American musicians blend rock, jazz, and Latin music with traditional Asian instruments to express multicultural identities. (Note: Also see Video 78) |
| 36 | Crusin' J-town | |
| 49 | Dave Mura Poet AAS 262, 1991 | On April 6, 1991, David Mura was a guest lecturer in Walter Lew's Asian American Literature class. He discussed writing from an Asian American perspective, identity, multiculturalism, and his new book Turning Japanese. |
| 207 | Days of Waiting | Part 4 of a video with 5 other videos on it. The story of Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians interned with Japanese Americans during World War II. The wife of a Japanese American, Ishigo refused to be separated from her husband and was interned along with him. Based on the personal papers of Estelle Ishigo and her novel Lone Heart Mountain. |
| 526 | Desi: South Asians in New York | Desi is a grounbreaking tribute to the diversity and dynamism the 200,000 South Asians living in New York City. The film illustrates the growing sense of shared identity here in America. |
| 201 | DESI: South Asians in New York | This production visits some of the 200,000 South Asians, people from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and other nations, who live in New York City. Filmmakers Skjalg Molvaer and Shebana Coetho show community life, religious activities, and a strike organized by South Asian taxi drivers when nuclear testing brought the shadow of war to their homelands. National Asian American Telecommunications Association. |
| 501 | Dim Sum | unhappiness: she's 62 now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine does have a boyfriend, but she's not sure she's ready for marriage, and, anyway, he lives in Los Angeles and Geraldine doesn't want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan's cheerful brother-in-law tries to help out. Is there any solution that will enable Mrs. Tan to hold onto her culturally-influenced and deep-seated hopes, yet keep those hopes from suffocating Geraldine? |
| 52 | Dim Sum - A Little Bit of Heart (1985) | In San Francisco, an immigrant Chinese widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's 62 now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine does have a boyfriend, but she's not sure she's ready for marriage, and, anyway, he lives in Los Angeles and Geraldine doesn't want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan's cheerful brother-in-law tries to help out. Is there any solution that will enable Mrs. Tan to hold onto her culturally-influenced and deep-seated hopes, yet keep those hopes from suffocating Geraldine? |
| 52 | Dim Sum Take-Out | The relationship between a first-generation Chinese American woman and her mother is disturbed when a fortune teller predicts the mother's death. The mother steps up her efforts to convince her daughter to marry a boyfriend, while the daughter grapples with her filial responsibilities. |
| 117 | Dirty Laundy | A modern-day prodigal son story with a twist. It follows Patrick, a magazine writer, who seems to have the "perfect life," until one day, there is a knock at the door. On the other side stands a secret that brings him face to face with the traditional southern family he hasn't seen in over 10 years. |
| 145 | Disoriented | N/A |
Video Listing
Available in the Asian American Resource Center