Chinatown: Strangers in a Strange Land


2h 2000

Brief Synopsis

A look at the Chinese-American immigrant experience through the eyes of the people who lived it. The program reveals how Chinese immigrants journeyed to a new world with little more than hope for new opportunities, how they were excluded from most of these opportunities by prejudice and how they wer

Film Details

Also Known As
Chinatown: A Secret History, Chinatown: A Secret World, Time Machine (07/21/00)
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
2000
Production Company
Perpetual Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Duration
2h

Synopsis

A look at the Chinese-American immigrant experience through the eyes of the people who lived it. The program reveals how Chinese immigrants journeyed to a new world with little more than hope for new opportunities, how they were excluded from most of these opportunities by prejudice and how they were forced to settle in tenements that came to be called Chinatown.

Film Details

Also Known As
Chinatown: A Secret History, Chinatown: A Secret World, Time Machine (07/21/00)
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
2000
Production Company
Perpetual Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Duration
2h

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