American Dream Movies

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...

After being captured by a self-proclaimed border guard, a Mexican boy tries to cook his way to freedom.

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

The Apple Pushers, narrated by Edward Norton, follows the inspiring stories of five immigrant pushcart vendors who are rolling fresh fruits and...

When Ruben, a young Chicano musician, is caught between his mother’s expectations and his own hopes, he is forced to make a decision that will...

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

In order to pass a history class and save his student visa, Caleb Shatar must earn extra credit by starring in his eccentric history...

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

Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell pushes...

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