American Dream Movies

It’s been widely reported that Detroit is making a comeback, but long-term residents of Detroit’s mostly black neighborhoods aren’t...

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...

We accompanied an 8 months pregnant Yuri, who migrates with her partner Mike and her son Santi with one objective, to give birth in USA

Cuban drummer Elvis García reflects on his journey from Havana to Miami, struggling to make his way in the American city as a professional...

High school girls Emma and Alice face a life-changing event after they leave their Sacramento home to pursue their dreams in Los Angeles.

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

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

When Paul and Sandy Darden (Judge Reinhold and Demi Moore) move into a seemingly quiet upper-middle-class community, their American Dream is all but...

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

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

Disputed with his father, Jay does everything he can to adapt himself to the city life as an immigrant.

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

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...

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

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

This short experimental film follows two energetic college students over a day around various locations in three boroughs of New York City.