J.T. Takagi

Most Popular J.T. Takagi Trailers

Total trailers found: 12

The Rise & Fall of Penn Station Trailer (2004)

18 February 2004

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States.

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper Trailer (1987)

23 February 1987

One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual History.

Working Girls Trailer (1987)

27 February 1987

A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.

Stormé: Lady of the Jewel Box Trailer (1991)

07 May 1991

“It ain’t easy…being green” is the favorite expression of Stormé DeLarverie, a woman whose life flouted prescriptions of gender and race.

Azul Trailer (1990)

12 April 1990

In 1988 it was exactly one hundred years ago that the Nicaraguan writer Ruben Dario published his first work.

Bittersweet Survival: Southeast Asian Refugees in America Trailer (1982)

05 May 1982

This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Cousin Bobby Trailer (1992)

29 May 1992

Robert Castle is the idealistic pastor of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem, and also the cousin of filmmaker Jonathan Demme.

It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School Trailer (1996)

21 May 1996

Depicts what happens when students K-8 discuss LGBT-related topics in age-appropriate ways. Shot in six public and private schools (in San Francisco and New York City, as well as Madison, Wisconsin, and Cambridge, Massachusetts), It’s Elementary models excellent teaching about family diversity, name-calling, stereotypes, community building, and more.

Homes Apart: Korea Trailer (1991)

02 January 1991

They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart.

Resistance at Tule Lake Trailer (2017)

19 July 2017

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II.

The Women Outside Trailer (1996)

16 July 1996

They're called bar women, hostesses, or sex workers and "western princesses." They come from poor families, struggling to earn a decent wage, only to be forced into the world's oldest profession.

Banished Trailer (2007)

22 January 2007

A look at three U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that violently forced African American families to flee in post-reconstruction America.