COOLIES, SAILORS, SETTLERS: Voyage to the New World (1996)
Douban
Ancestors in the Americas series - Part I
director:
Loni Ding
playwright:
Loni Ding
genre:
Documentary
region:
United States
language:
英语; 粵語; hindi
length: 1h
release date: 1996
IMDb: tt0196333
website:
www.cetel.org/index.html
overview
Traces the global forces that brought the first Asians -- Filipinos, Chinese and Asian Indians -- to the Americas and the Caribbean in the 18th and 19th centuries, and looks at their lives as sailors, coolies, and finally settlers.