The new Americans [videorecording] / Kartemquin Films.

Publisher: [United States] : Kartemquin Educational Films, [2009]

ISBN: 1565808207

Description: 2 videodiscs (411 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject: Americanization.
Dominicans (Dominican Republic) Cultural assimilation United States.
Nigerians Cultural assimilation United States.
Palestinian Arabs Cultural assimilation United States.
East Indians Cultural assimilation United States.
Mexicans Cultural assimilation United States.
United States Emigration and immigration.
Documentary films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other titles: Independent lens (Television program).

Credits: Directors (Dominican story), Susana Aikin, Carlos Aparicio ; directors (Palestinian story), Jerry Blumental, Gordon Quinn ; director (Nigerian story), Steve James ; editors, David E. Simpson, Steve James ; series producer, Gita Saedi ; executive producers, Steve James, Gordon Quinn ; presented by Independent Television Service.

Performers: Narrator, Ismail Bashey.

Notes: Originally broadcast as an episode of Independent Lens, Mar. 29, 2004.
In English or Spanish; closed-captioned
Special features: Additional scenes; Where are they now? slideshow.

Summary: Follows four years of the lives of a group of contemporary immigrants as they journey to start new lives in America, including a couple from India in Silicon Valley, a Mexican meatpacker in rural Kansas, two families of Nigerian refugees, two baseball players from the Dominican Republic joining the L.A. Dodgers, and a newly-wed Palestinian woman in Chicago. The detailed portraits of these immigrants not only result in a kaleidoscope of immigrant life but offer 'first impressions' of America