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 musi...

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

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 change...

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 professor’s no-bu...

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

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

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