American Dream Movies

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

It’s 3 AM, the neon is buzzing, and nobody's where they thought they’d be. In the restless late hours of Miami, nine characters stumble...

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

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

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

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...

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

An ambitious Filipina nurse leaves her family behind in the Philippines to chase the American Dream in the 1990s, only to find herself battling...

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

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...

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

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

After preventing a middle school student from carrying out a shooting, Principal McMack meets with the student's parents to discuss what to do next.

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?