American Dream Movies

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

A kaleidoscopic road trip through modern mystical Americana, revealing the hidden magic that’s happening all around us. A living tribute to the...

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy...

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...

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...

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.

The Croatian coast, 1914. Europe is in shambles and fear of the brewing military conflict of The Great War is slowly eating away at all facets of...

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

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

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

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

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

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?