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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
"The story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality. Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California--bone-dry, harborless, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges--seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world's iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles's meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2004], ©2004
Description
"Los Angeles Now looks beyond Baywatch and Blade Runner to create a fresh and candid portrait of America's second largest city following the close of its "Anglo century" (1900-2000). A look at a city where more than half of the population is Latino and 40 percent are foreign born, the film uses a groundbreaking high-definition format to explore challenging questions and provocative points of view. How will the city's new Latino and Asian majorities...
6) The exiles
Series
Publisher
Exclusively distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne, her husband Homer, and their Mexican acquaintance Tommy...
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