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World War II: The Japanese-American Experience
Item# 40104
© 2004
35 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-174-2
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-175-9
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government stripped more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans of their civil rights and forced them into fenced internment camps euphemistically call...
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Institute of Texan Cultures: Behind the Lone Star
Item# 35229
© 2003
28 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-2975-8
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-2976-5
Japanese farmers. Italian cowboys. Black Indians. Jewish oil tycoons. This program on the Institute of Texan Cultures at the University of Texas, San Antonio, explores multiculturalism, Texas-style-a...
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
Item# 31779
© 2003
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-7079-4
What does it mean to become American? What is lost and what is gained in the process? In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, this powerful Bill Moyers series explores these...
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Between Two Worlds
Item# 31327
© 2003
89 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-6942-2
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-6122-2
In the early 1880s, abetted by the Chinese Exclusion Act, a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment swept across America. This program examines the exclusion years through the stories of Chinese Americans and...
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Gold Mountain Dreams
Item# 31326
© 2003
89 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-6941-5
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-6121-5
In the 1840s, civil war and famine in southern China drove thousands of young men to seek their fortune in the California Gold Rush. This program traces the Chinese experience in America, from their w...
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No Turning Back
Item# 31328
© 2003
88 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-6943-9
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-6123-9
The new immigration laws of 1965 were a turning point for the Chinese in America and allowed a new wave of immigrants to enter the country. Chinese American life has flourished in the years since. Nar...
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A Personal Journey with Dr. David Ho, AIDS Researcher
Item# 31774
© 2003
15 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-7064-0
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-7065-7
Since arriving in America from Taiwan at the age of 12, Dr. David Ho has become a world-renowned scientist. His research in the fight against HIV/AIDS earned him honors as Time magazine's Man of the Y...
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A Personal Journey with Gish Jen, Author
Item# 31776
© 2003
15 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-7068-8
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-7069-5
Born and raised in the United States, Gish Jen has become a leading literary voice of the Chinese American experience. In this program, Bill Moyers talks with the critically acclaimed writer, whose no...
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A Personal Journey with Maya Lin, Artist and Architect
Item# 31778
© 2003
30 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-7072-5
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-7073-2
Sculptor, architect, and designer Maya Lin catapulted to prominence when, as a senior at Yale University, she was chosen to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. In this program, Bi...
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A Personal Journey with Samuel Ting, Nobel Laureate Physicist
Item# 31777
© 2003
15 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-7070-1
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-7071-8
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in China and Taiwan, Samuel Ting received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1976 and is now leading a multinational experiment with NASA to search for antimatter, t...
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