Asian American Films at Duke

Chinese American Films

Film TitleGenre Call Number Year
Becoming American: The Chinese ExperienceDocumentaryDVD 1901

2003 

Carved in SilenceDocumentaryVC 39521992
Chan is MissingDramaVC 39721982
Chinatown FilesDocumentaryVC 112032001
Dim Sum Take OutDramaVC 38491988
Eat a Bowl of TeaDramaVC 41131989
El Viaje Mas Largo (Chinese-Cuban)DocumentaryVC 119231993
Forbidden City, U.S.A.DocumentaryVC 40881989
Great Wall, ADramaDVD 4459

1986

History of Chinese American Achievement, ADocumentaryDVD 156952009
I Love You MommyDocumentaryDVD 188422009
 Joy Luck ClubDramaVC 40701994
LIRU VC 38571987
Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking StoryDocumentaryVC 38461990
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear VisionDocumentaryVC 80161994
My Mother Thought She Was Audrey HepburnDocumentaryVC 39001990
Pushing Hands (Tui shou) DramaDVD 5860

1991 

 Sewing WomanDocumentaryVC 38331982
 The Year of the DragonDramaVC 8718199?
Thousand Pieces of GoldDramaVC 65691991
Thousand Years of Good Prayers, ADramaDVD 196662009
Toison Trilogy, A: Stories from Chinese AmericaDramaDVD 192022010
Tui Shou (Pushing Hands)DramaDVD 58602005
Two LiesDramaVC 86201989
Under the Willow Tree: Pioneer Chinese Women in CanadaDocumentaryVC 67681997
Vincent Who?DocumentaryDVD 180232009
When East Meets EastDocumentaryVC 89172000
Who Killed Vincent Chin?DocumentaryVC 39521988



Japanese American Films

Film Title  Genre Call Number
Year
37 Stories About Leaving HomeDocumentaryVC 106071996
AokiDocumentaryDVD 186702009
The Color of Honor: The Japanese-American Soldier in World War IIDocumentaryVC 38361989
Days of Waiting: The Life and Art of Estelle IshigoDocumentaryVC 38371990
Doubles: Japanese and America's Intercultural ChildrenDocumentaryVC 55701995
Family GatheringDocumentaryVC 38651990
From a Different Shore: An American IdentityDocumentaryVC 68941996
The Good Wife of TokyoDocumentaryVC 100291992
History and MemoryDocumentaryVC 39631991
Hunting Tigers VC 39201988
Japanese American Women: A Sense of PlaceDocumentaryVC 39581991
Japanese RelocationDocumentary (U.S.Government)VC 49921942
Jazz is My Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko AkiyoshiDocumentaryVC 27341986
Living on Tokyo TimeDramaVC 39861987
ManzanarDocumentaryVC 38521971
Nagasaki JourneyDocumentaryVC 84851990
Picture BrideDramaVC 83181995
Rabbit in the MoonDocumentaryDVD 170712004
RelocationsDocumentaryVC 38451991
The Shot Heard Round the WorldDocumentaryVC 65811997
Song for Ourselves, ADocumentaryDVD 186232009
Survivors: 40 Years After HiroshimaDocumentaryVC 38341989
Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment CasesDocumentaryDVD 50751985
Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway?DocumentaryVC 79701992
Without Due Process: Japanese Americans and World War IIDocumentaryVC 38711991
Yankee Samurai: The Little Iron MenDocumentaryVC 43201985




Korean American Films

Film Title
Genre
Call Number
Year
Another AmericaDocumentaryVC 121061996
Breaking BreadDocumentaryDVD 135742007
First Person PluralDocumentaryVC 115422000
Great GirlDramaVC 83781994
In the Matter of Cha Jung HeeDocumentaryDVD 180002010
Sa-I-Gu (Effects of L.A. Riots)DocumentaryVC 38641993
Silence Broken: Korean Comfort WomenDocumentaryVC 99651999
Take OffDocumentaryDVD 182562010
Western EyesDocumentaryVC 113752000




Filipino American Films

Film Title
Genre
Call Number
Year
Bontoc EulogyDocudramaVC 80801995
The Fall of the I HotelDocumentaryVC 50011983
The LearningDocumentaryDVD 204232011
Left by the ShipDVD 21157
Sin City DiaryDocumentaryVC 3626

1992 



Other Asian American Films

Film TitleGenre
Call Number
Year
A.K.A. Don Bonus (Cambodia)DocumentaryVC 98771995
Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian NationDocumentaryVC 38501993
Ancestors in the Americas: Coolies, Sailors, SettlersDocumentaryVC 109012000
Art to Art: Expressions by Asian American WomenDocumentaryVC 80641993
Banana SplitDocumentaryVC 80591990
Becoming American: The Odyssey of a Refugee Family (Hmong-American)DocumentaryVC 40611983
Better Luck TomorrowDramaDVD 38602002
Between the Lines: Asian American Women's PoetryDocumentaryVC 108592001
Blue Collar and Buddha (Laotian)DocumentaryVC 38481987
Bui Doi: Life Like Dust (Vietnamese)DocumentaryVC 38471994
Four WomenDocumentaryVC 38601982
Frankly SpeakingDocumentaryVC 38541982
Grace Lee Project, TheDocumentary/ ComedyDVD 53132005
I'm On a Mission from BuddhaDocumentaryVC 3851 1991
Maybe Never (But I'm Counting the Days)Short FilmVC 120241996
Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American PoetsDocumentaryVC 39611981
Monterey's Boat PeopleDocumentary/ Short FilmVC 38551985
My America...or Honk if You Love BuddhaDocumentaryVC 72281997
On New Ground (women)DocumentaryVC 38531982
Pak Bueng on Fire (Thai)DocumentaryVC 38621987
Picturing Oriental Girls: A (Re)educational VideotapeDocumentaryVC 80601992
Regret to Inform (Vietnam)DocumentaryVC 87392000
Robot StoriesDramaDVD 41182005
Roots in the Sand (Sikh, Muslim, Hindu)DocumentaryVC 92731998
Slaying the Dragon (women)DocumentaryVC 39441987
Surname Viet Given Name NamDramaVC 50311989
Talking HistoryDocumentaryVC 38621984
Toc Storee (gay Asian-Americans)DocudramaVC 118871992
Troubled Paradise (Hawaiian)DocumentaryVC 38441992
Turbans (Sikh)DocudramaVC 104891999
Wedding BanquetDramaDVD 53991993
When East Meets EastDocumentaryVC 89171997
Yellow-Tale Blues: Two American FamiliesDocumentaryVC 67621990
Yuki Shimoda: Asian American ActorDocumentaryVC 38611985
Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for JusticeDocumentaryVC 106201994