American Dream Movies

In Texas, construction workers face the deadliest conditions in the country. This documentary follows three immigrant families who are rising up to...

All Denny wants to do is get by like everybody else, but there always seems to be something in the way.

An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polarization and distrust through past the past and...

The House of Suh” tells the story of Andrew and his sister Catherine, and how the values, conflicts, and dysfunctions of their Korean immigrant...

A Native American grandmother who lives very simply alone in the desert actually inhabits a world that her half-Hispanic grandson and a white aging...

Examines how a US value system built on the extreme masculine ideals of money, power and control has glorified individualism, institutionalized...

Iconic imageries and moments of strange magic in California.

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy...

When Ruben, a young Chicano musician, is caught between his mother’s expectations and his own hopes, he is forced to make a decision that will...

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for...

A colorful and provocative survey of anarchism in America, the film attempts to dispel popular misconceptions and trace the historical development of...

Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell pushes...

A coming of age drama set in Texas, about a suburban teen boy, estranged from his family, who enlists the help of his dysfunctional friends to become...

In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three Detroit men must fight...

So Yun Um’s debut feature is a moving portrait of two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconciling their dreams with those of...

On a Summer afternoon, Pedro packs the last few boxes before having to leave his apartment in New York. 12 years ago, Pedro and Ana had arrived in...

A journey into time, landscape and consciousness: The Southwestern United States in the black-and-white moving images and unsettling instrumental...

In order to pass a history class and save his student visa, Caleb Shatar must earn extra credit by starring in his eccentric history...

Wokman shares an immigrant Chinese family’s pursuit of the American Dream from inside of their restaurant, China Wok. Based in 1998...