American Sessue Hayakawa's roles in the silent films The Wrath of the Gods (1914) and The Typhoon (1914) transformed Hayakawa into an overnight success. The first Asian-American star of the American screen was born, and during the 1920s he was as famous as actors Charlie Chaplin and ...
This state secret was particularly well-kept for more than fifty years and only revealed in its full magnitude after the disintegration of the USSR, when the archives were revealed. Drawing on previously unpublished material, on many Soviet films and on a number of particular points of view, ...
However, the majority of these videos are on European, Asian, and North American history, and as a consequence this database offers noticeably less coverage of the history of the rest of the world. Nevertheless, new videos are being added on a continual basis, so there is the possibility ...
If you're interested in history, you can find more films like these in the list of recommended documentaries below. If you're interested in Asian history, for example, check the list of documentaries about Asia. You'll find films like Burma VJ and The Act of Killing in which you'll ...
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To document the family road trip, SAADA created the Road Trips Project — a collection of photos and stories of South Asian Americans vrooming across the United States. This project is helping to expand what the quintessential American road trip looks like, and this post shares some of the co...
World Premiere Film Festival Highlights: Cold Weather (Aaron Katz), Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn), MacGruber (Jorma Taccone), The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Michell), Passenger Pigeons (Martha Stephens), Pelada (Luke Boughen, Rebekah Fergusson, Gwendolyn Oxenham, Ryan White), ...
They also joined forces with other Asian American college students to push for the establishment of Asian American studies programs in major universities and colleges across the nation. The politicization of Chinese Americans soon led to the founding of new civil rights and partisan political ...
Michael Joseph Jackson (born in Gary, Indiana-1958) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Called the "King of Pop", his contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his highly-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture ...
The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washington's anticommunist goals during the Cold War How did the U.S. government make use of a "Buddhist policy" in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state...