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"Dinner at Eight" (1933) – The pre-Code comedy/drama about a high society get-together features a stellar ensemble – Jean Harlow, John and Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, Billie Burke and Wallace Beery, to name a few – orchestrated by director George Cukor.
"Home Alone" (1990) – This endearing holiday mix of slapstick comedy from writer John Hughes and director Chris Columbus stars Macaulay Culkin as a young boy haphazardly left behind at Christmas time when his family rushes off for a European vacation, who must fend for himself when a pair of bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) shows up at his house.
"The Wedding Banquet" (1993) – The second film of Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") is a ground-breaking romantic comedy about culture clashes in the Chinese-American community, as a gay Taiwanese immigrant in New York has a marriage of convenience with a woman from the Chinese mainland – and must present the bride to his visiting family.
(1977) – Robert M. Young ("The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez") directed this story of a Mexican migrant laborer, Roberto, who faces challenges in the United States (such as dodging immigration officials) as he works to earn money for his family back home.
"12 Years a Slave" (2013) – Winner of the Oscar for best picture, Steve McQueen's dramatization of the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free African American who was kidnapped in the 1840s, transported to the South and sold into bondage, is a grueling story of inhumanity, and of one man's struggle to regain his freedom.
"Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision" (1994) – Freida Lee Mock's documentary about the Chinese American artist and architect who, as a Yale student, won a nationwide design competition to create the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall.
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