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                  ASIAN-AMERICAN FILMOGRAPHY

  
 American Experience, The
 A series of programs on memorable people and events of the
 past 100 years in American history.  Hosted by David
 McCullough.  See individual titles for descriptions.
      Family Gathering, A
  
 Becoming American
 10952,FF
 30 min  color  Eng  SCA
 Traces the relocation path of a refugee family as they leave
 their native Laos, journey temporarily to Thailand, then
 finally resettle in Seattle, Washington.  Restricted to use by
 institutions of higher education within the state of Michigan.
 WNET/13TV; NEW DAY FILMS; 1983
  
 Chen Ning Yang
 13131,VH
 29 min  color  Eng  SCA
 From World of Ideas with Bill Moyers series.  Presents Yang,
 the first Chinese scientist to win the Nobel Prize.  PUBLIC
 AFFAIRS TELEVISION; P B S VIDEO; 1988
  
 Faces of the Enemy
 10488,VH
 58 min  color  Eng  SCA
 Presents a series of propaganda images and cartoons created
 during times of war to discover what drives nations and
 individuals to kill.  QUEST PRODUCTIONS; CATTICUS CORPORATION,
 THE; 1987
  
 Family Gathering, A
 18122,VH
 57 min  color  Eng  SCA
 From the American Experience series.  Tells the dramatic story
 of the consequences of the U.S.  internment policy of Japanese
 Americans during WWII and one family's long battle to reclaim
 their place as Americans.  WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION; P B S
 VIDEO; 1989
  
 Golden Mountain On Mott Street
 02331,FF
 34 min  color  Eng  JSCA
 The story of the Chinese immigrant who came to America seeking
 his "Golden Mountain".  CAROUSEL FILMS INC; 1967
  
 Great Wall, A
 18315,VH
 103 min  color  Chi  SCA
 Chronicles the return of Leo Fang and his American-born wife
 and son to his native China where they encounter numerous
 comical cultural clashes.  Directed by Peter Wang.  In English
 and Mandarin with English subtitles.  Not cleared for public
 performances.  W & S PRODUCTIONS; PACIFIC ARTS VIDEO; 1985
  
 Guilty by Reason of Race
 06031,FF
 53 min  color  Eng  SCA
 Portrays how the fear and prejudice created by war with Japan
 resulted in the confinement of Japanese-Americans in
 relocation centers.  NATIONAL BROADCASTING SERVICE; FILMS
 INCORPORATED/PMI; 1972
  
 Home Base: A Chinatown Called Heinlenville
 23398,VH
 15 min  color  Eng  SCA
 Shows the efforts of a group of people to preserve a community
 called Heinlenville, a landmark town that is a part of
 Chinese-American culture.  AMERICAN FILM FOUNDATION; CAROUSEL
 FILMS INC; 1991
  
 Inside Chinatown
 07335,FF
 43 min  color  Eng  SCA
 Looks behind the apparent and into the quality of life in San
 Francisco's Chinatown.  CHIN, MICHAEL &DAVID
 GOLDSTEIN; PHOENIX FILMS; 1977
  
 Mississippi Triangle
 10722,VH
 110 min  color  Eng  SCA
 Documents the inter-ethnic relations in the American South,
 specifically the Mississippi Delta region where
 Chinese-Americans, African-Americans and whites live in a
 world of cotton, work, and racial conflict.  THIRD WORLD
 NEWSREEL; 1984
  
 Sam
 06575,FF
 20 min  b&w  Eng  SCA
 The dreams and realities in the life of Sam, an American of
 Japanese ancestry, are described.  UNIV OF CALIF EXTENSION
 MEDIA; 1973
  
 Save Chinatown
 01588,FF
 28 min  color  Eng  JSCA
 A film made by the Chinese community to document and aid in
 the successful citizen effort to halt the construction of a
 freeway ramp that would have cut through and destroyed
 Philadelphia's Chinatown and demolished the Holy Redeemer
 Catholic Church.  LUM, JON WING; WING PRODUCTIONS; 1900
  
 Slaying the Dragon
 11138,VH
 58 min  color  Eng  CA
 Reviews the role of Asian women in film and television and
 reveals how certain images were developed and sustained.  NATL
 ASIAN AMERICAN TELECOMM A; 1987
  
 Stephen Jay Gould: Evolution and Human Equality
 14279,VH
 42 min  color  Eng  CA
 Presents a lecture by Stephen Jay Gould, noted paleontologist
 and expert in evolutionary theory.  Restricted to use by Univ.
 of Michigan groups only.  GOULD, STEPHEN JAY; INSIGHT
 VIDEO; 1987
  
 Stories of Maxine Hong Kingston, The
 18119,VH
 55 min  color  Eng  SCA
 From World of Ideas with Bill Moyers series.  Two-part
 interview with Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman
 Warrior and China Men who discusses new images of America as a
 melting pot where dutiful notions of the Puritan blend with
 the Monkey Spirit of the Orient to produce a new American
 consciousness.  PUBLIC AFFAIRS TELEVISION; P B S VIDEO; 1990
  
 Unfinished Business
 10956,FF
 60 min  color  Eng  SCA
 Documentary about three Japanese-Americans who refused to be
 among the over 110,000 men, women and children sent to
 internment camps during WW II.  Restricted to use by
 University of Michigan groups only.  OKAZAKI,
 STEVEN; MOUCHETTE; 1985
  
 Who Killed Vincent Chin?
 10688,VH
 82 min  color  Eng  SCA
 Relates the facts of the murder of Vincent Chin, a 27-year-old
 Chinese American, who was celebrating in a Detroit bar when an
 agrument broke out, ethnic insults were shouted, and Chin was
 killed by a man with a baseball bat.  FILM NEWS NOW; FILMAKERS
 LIBRARY; 1988
  
 World of Ideas with Bill Moyers Series
 Broadcast journalist Bill Moyers hosts this 42-part series
 which includes interviews with noted writers, politicians,
 economists, philosophers, historians, theologists, etc.  who
 express their opinions concerning where America and the world
 stand now and what direction we may be heading.  Each expert
 shares his or her ideas on a variety of subjects.  See individual
 titles for descriptions.
      Chen Ning Yang
      Stories of Maxine Hong Kingston, The