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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Movies & TV

This guide provides resources in recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrated each May.

Films on Demand

Eddie Huang

Silent Sacrifice: Stories of Japanense-American Incarceration
Series

 

How Amy Tan's Family Stories Made Her A Storyteller

Sophie and the Rising Sun
Feature Film

The Chinese Exlusion Act

George Takei

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Island of Warriors

More Than a Face in the Crowd: The Fifty-Year Career of Asian-American Actress Jane Chung

Streaming Recommendations

What to watch on...

Hulu

  • TV Series: Fresh off the Boat, Superstore, The Good Place, Killing Eve, Elementary, PEN15, The Mindy Project, Marvel's Runaways, Ballers, Sunnyside, Dollface, Single Parents, Little Fires Everywhere, Gap Year, A Million Little Things, Now Apocalypse, Star Trek: The Original Series.
  •  Movies: Crazy Rich Asians, Parasite, Plus One, Searching, Bend it like Beckham, Slumber, Parasite, The Terror.

Netflix

  • TV SeriesNever Have I Ever, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, Ugly Delicious, Master of None, Brownation, A Taiwanese Tale of Two Cities
  • Movies: Always be My Maybe, To All the Boys I've Loved Before (1, 2, & 3),  Tigertail, Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, All in My Family, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Seoul Searching, Bad Rap, The Tiger Hunter, The Half of It.

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