America, America (Elia Kazan, 1963) – In master director Elia Kazan’s most personal film, the story of how his uncle, as a young man in the 1890s, made the perilous journey from Anatolia to The United States.
The Namesake (Mira Nair, 2006) – This colorful film follows a Bengali couple who move to New York in the 1970s and work to keep strong their family bonds as their children grow up as middle-class Americans.
The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005) – A visually-poetic dramatization of the encounters between English settlers of Jamestown, Virginia and the Algonquin inhabitants already there, centering on the legend of the relationship between Captain John Smith and Pocahontas.