Sol and Tião are born to different social backgrounds—she to a poor suburban family in Rio, and him to an even poorer family who raised cattle in West São Paulo State. They eventually meet, due to unlikely circumstances, but part again, as she has set as her ultimate priority to reach the United States or bust. While she comes to the U.S. to live as an illegal immigrant, he remains in Brazil and, despite many trials and tribulations, he becomes a successful rodeo cowboy.
When the United States of America was founded, the ideals of freedom and equality did not apply to all people. These are the stories of the brave Americans who fought to right the nation’s wrongs and enshrine the values we hold most dear into the Constitution — with liberty and justice for all.
Die Stewardess Sofie Werner (Yvonne Strahovski) ergreift die Flucht vor ihrem Leben und ihrer Familie. Ihre Sinnkrise treibt sie direkt in die Fänge einer Sekte für Selbstoptimierung. Als Sofie erkennt was wirklich hinter der Sekte steckt, ergreift sie erneut die Flucht. Sie wird von den Behörden ergriffen und in ein Flüchtlingslager gebracht. Hier treffen mehrere Schicksale und Menschen aufeinander, die durch ein fehlerhaftes System an den Rande des Wahnsinns getrieben werden.
Auswanderer aus Europa treffen auf der Reise in die neue Welt auf ein dahintreibendes weiteres Schiff auf offener See mit einem albtraumhaften Rätsel.
Bordertown is a 1995 Australian TV miniseries. It takes place in a post World War II refugee camp in Australia.
Schauplatz ist die kanadische Zoll- und Einwanderungsbehörde ICS (Immigration and Customs Security) in Toronto, die die Aktionen der kanadischen Grenzpolizei dirigiert. Dabei steht die permanente Terrorismus-Gefahr im Vordergrund: Wo ist die Grenze zwischen Sicherheit, Freiheit, Furcht und sozialer Gerechtigkeit? Unter Hochdruck muss das Team in einem Balanceakt Entscheidungen treffen und manchmal auch eigene persönliche Vorurteile überwinden.
"Bordertown" wirft einen satirischen Blick auf die kulturellen Unterschiede innerhalb Amerikas. Im Mittelpunkt des neuen Projekts stehen zwei Familien, die in einer fiktiven Wüstenstadt an der Grenze zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und Mexiko leben. Bud Buckwald und Ernesto Gonzales sind beide verheiratete Familienväter. Bud arbeitet als Grenzschutzagent, der sich von den kulturellen Veränderungen durch die Einwanderer in seiner Nachbarschaft bedroht fühlt, während der mexikanische Zuwanderer Ernesto stolz darauf ist, es in den USA zu etwas gebracht zu haben.
Documentary following Ireland's Customs teams as they, with the help of the Irish police, try to stop organised smugglers from bringing drugs, cars and even exotic animals into the country.
A disgraced New York politician who was the city's youngest city councilman in history until he was brought down by a public intoxication incident gets an opportunity to rebuild his life when he is hired by a group of immigrants who hope to become American citizens.
Forced to choose between her alien husband and her home planet, a United Earth Space Corps officer has no option but betrayal.
Several families in the farmland of Northern California navigate universal themes of class, immigration, culture and family.
Welcome to new Sweden. Will Kristina manage to seduce the janitor? Can the employment officer convince Mohammed to take a black job? Does the balloon man abuse helium?
Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds work as housekeeper for farmer, Larry Birch. Another tragedy occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.
The Youth Documentary Academy proudly presents OUR TIME, a television series produced in association with public television that dives deeply into tough topics faced by teens across the nation.
Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.
Diese Dokuserie nimmt durch Erlebnisberichte von Einwanderern und Einblicke in die US-Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde das Phänomen Einwanderung in den USA unter die Lupe.
Die größte Wanderungsbewegung in der Geschichte, im Zuge derer Millionen Europäer der Alten Welt den Rücken kehrten, um in der Neuen Welt ihr Glück zu suchen.
Billy is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC for half a season from January to May 1992. A spin-off of Head of the Class, the series stars Billy Connolly as Billy MacGregor, a Scottish teacher who moves to America in order to build a new life for himself.
Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by John Doyle, it was the first mainstream television/film project to address the issue of the Australian government's refugee policy, a topic it approaches by chronicling the emotional journey of one young man during his year off after graduation, in his fictional rural home-town of Brackley, Australia.
The storyline of Marking Time was inspired by the real-life experiences of Afghan refugees and their hosts in the rural town of Young, New South Wales; however much of the outdoor scenes of the series were actually shot at Singleton, New South Wales, in the Hunter Region.