The New Americans is a seven-hour American documentary that was originally broadcast on American television over three nights on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in late March 2004. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again "
The observational documentary, which includes minimal voice-over narration and very little direct interviewing of its subjects (and none in which the interviewer's voice is heard), follows the lives of a series of immigrants to the United States over the course of four years. Immigration refers to the movement of people among countries While the movement of people has existed throughout human history at various levels modern immigration implies long-term The series was filmed between 1998 and 2001, although not all of its subjects were filmed during that entire length of time. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The immigrants were filmed both in their countries of origin before immigrating as well as in the United States. The filming during this period was extensive and occurred in the subjects' homes, at their places of work, in government offices, and in a number of other situations, many of them quite intimate. As a result, The New Americans offers an unusually personal and comprehensive look at the people it profiles.
The immigrants profiled and filmed in The New Americans include a group of baseball players from the Dominican Republic hoping to secure a career in Major League Baseball; a computer programmer from India and his wife; a family with six children from a farming community in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico; a family of Ogoni refugees from Nigeria; and a woman from Palestine who moves to the United States to be with her new husband, a first-generation Palestinian-American who grew up in Chicago. The Dominican Republic ( Spanish: República Dominicana;) is a nation located in the Caribbean region and shares the island of Hispaniola with India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Guanajuato is the name of a state in Mexico and that state's capital city as well as a river in the area The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. The Ogoni people are one of the many Indigenous peoples in the Niger Delta region of southeast Nigeria. Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Name There are differences of opinion as to what the Palestinian territories should be called Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States.
The locations shown in the documentary include not only each of the immigrants' countries of origin, but also many places in the United States where the immigrants settled or traveled, including Chicago (the Palestinian and Nigerian immigrants), the Silicon Valley of California (the Indian immigrants), Garden City, Kansas and Mecca, California (the Mexican immigrants), and Florida, Georgia and Montana (the Dominican immigrants). For the valley nicknamed "Silicone Valley" see San Fernando Valley. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Garden City is a city in Finney County, Kansas, United States. Mecca is a Census-designated place (CDP in Riverside County, California, United States. Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern
The New Americans was executive produced by Steve James (who also produced the acclaimed 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams) and Gordon Quinn, both of Kartemquin Films. Steve James is an American film producer and director of several documentaries including the award-winning Hoop Dreams, and Stevie. Hoop Dreams is a 1994 Documentary film directed by Steve James. Gordon Quinn is President and founding member of Kartemquin Films, a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions Kartemquin Films is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 1966 by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner and Stan Karter three University of Chicago graduates who It was broadcast on PBS as part of the series Independent Lens, in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS). Airing weekly on PBS through ITVS, the Emmy Award -winning series Independent Lens introduces new Drama and Documentary films Independent Television Service (ITVS is a service in the United States which funds and presents award-winning documentaries and dramas on Public television, innovative
The program was broadcast in the United Kingdom on the cable network BBC Four in early April 2004. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located BBC Four is a BBC Television channel available to digital television ( Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable) viewers in the
"New Americans" is also a generic term used to describe immigrants to the United States, although this term is used less often than its counterpart term in Australia, where "New Australians" is a relatively common phrase. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics.
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