Coolies, sailors, settlers [videorecording] : voyage to the new world / a production of Center for Educational Telecommunication, Inc. ; a film by Loni Ding ; producer, director, writer, Loni Ding ; editor, Eric Ladenburg.

Edition: Revised online director's cut.

Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Center for Educational Telecommunications, c2001.

Description: 1 videocassette (61 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.

Series: Asian American history series ; pt. 1

Subject(s): Immigrants America History.
Emigration and immigration America History.
Immigrants United States History.
Immigrants South America History.
Immigrants Caribbean Area History.
Asian Americans History.
Chinese Americans History.
Filipino Americans History.
East Indian Americans History.
Documentaries and factual films and videos. mim

Credits: Music, Zhou Long ; editors, Eric Ladenburg, Sean Thomas ; cinematography, Kyle Kibbe and May Ying Welsh.

Performers: Narrator: Sab Shimono.

Summary: The untold story of how Asians--Filipino, Chinese, Asian Indian--first arrived in the Americas. Film crosses centuries and oceans from the 16th century Manila-Acapulco trade, to the Opium War, to the 19th century plantation coolie labor in South America and the Caribbean.