American Dream Movies

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

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...

Sports agent Bartolo 'Bart' Hernandez and his unlikely partner Julio Estrada embark on a mission to help Cuba’s greatest athletes pursue the...

A kaleidoscopic road trip through modern mystical Americana, revealing the hidden magic that’s happening all around us. A living tribute to the...

Why don't we do something to ease the suffering of the poor, the excluded? Because we live in fear of "the other," the stranger. Filmed a few months...

The internationally acclaimed director and recipient of the Erasmus Award in 2007, Péter Forgács created a documentary exploring the...

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

All Denny wants to do is get by like everybody else, but there always seems to be something in the way.

A dejected Vietnam veteran in early 70s Los Angeles yearns for an obsolete American dream and faces the violence that comes with it.

The Croatian coast, 1914. Europe is in shambles and fear of the brewing military conflict of The Great War is slowly eating away at all facets of...

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

Chasing the American dream, two eager Chinese immigrants journey through the abrasive, isolating landscapes of the US-Mexico border and the streets...

What chance does a young hustler from Anchorage, Alaska have after a long prison sentence that feeds him back to the same violent street life?

Fleeing violence and persecution, refugees start new lives in the rural town of Storm Lake, Iowa, working the meatpacking line by day and reaching...