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Finding a Place, Maintaining Ties: Greater Hartford's West Indians

Oral history interviews with immigrants from Jamaica and other places from the Caribbean.

The Voyage Home: Hawai'iloa's Northwest Journey

Chronicles the historic journey of the Polynesian voyaging canoe, Hawai'iloa, as it sailed from Seattle, Washington to Juneau, Alaska in the summer of 1995. The voyage was a true homecoming for the Hawai'iloa. Its twin hulls were carved from…

The Girl Who Spelled Freedom

Fleeing from the horrors of war-torn Cambodia, the Yann family settles in Chattanooga, Tennessee with their caring American sponsors. Young Linn Yann is determined to make something of her life and strives to master the difficult language of her…

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In Korean

First Person Plural

A personal and political film about the filmmaker's experiences being adopted from South Korea and raised by an American family. Also explores the reconciling of different identities.

Captive Hearts

Two American airmen meet very different fates when their bomber is shot down over wartime Japan.

After Silence

Frank Kitamoto of Bainbridge Island, Washington was among the first of 110,000 west coast Japanese Americans forced to leave their homes during World War II. As Frank relates his three years of internment, students from Bainbridge High School develop…

Honor Bound: A Personal Journey

The story, as told by Sgt. Howard Hanamura to his daughter, of the 100th/442 Regimental Combat Team, a segregated, Japanese American combat unit which fought in Europe during World War II. The ultimate mission of these soldiers was upholding the…