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"From the origins of the 'scattering' of the Irish over the centuries, to the drams of a mythical home nurtured by so many Irish migrants today. The Irish Empire is a lively exploration of the ups and downs of the Irish experience abroad -- as seen by themselves, and as they are perceived by others."--Container.

"Major Mike Kessler and ICS' elite border-security task force confront terrorists, corporate spies, and an international mafia ring that threatens to undermine North American security. Homeland security agent Liz Carver steps in and ratchets up U.S. involvement in criminal cross-border cases, igniting sparks with detective Gray Jackson who finds her impossible to resist. Meanwhile, Gray's father, Dougie is in deep water with loan sharks and leads...

Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of Europe, crossed by thousands of migrants in the last...

A young Italian would-be writer comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself. While there, he meets Camilla, who is hoping to marry a rich American. Both are trying to escape the stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California.

An immigrations agent investigates a missing illegal while trying to maintain justice.

The story of Anju, and aging Asian Indian immigrant and her American born children Raj and Nina as they try to reconcile their cultural heritage and values with the opportunities available to them in the United States.

From acclaimed director David Sutherland comes this unique look at the immigration issue. The film follows the efforts of Elizabeth Perez, a decorated United States Marine veteran, to reunite her family after the deportation of her husband, an undocumented worker from Mexico. Her struggle begins to challenge her assumptions about justice and fairness in the nation for which she fought. A co-presentation with FRONTLINE.

Salvatore is a very poor farmer and a widower who decides to emigrate to the U.S. with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is a British woman who wants to go back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, needs to marry someone before she arrives at Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts her proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations...

Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.

An Eastern European Jewish woman comes to turn-of-the-century Lower East Side in New York to join her husband and is reluctant to shed her ethnic heritage and embrace American ways as her husband has.