The Italian American Think Tank
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During World War II, while some Italian Americans were deemed “enemy aliens,” more than 500,000 Italian Americans served in the U.S. military. The documentary Fighting…
In 1956 the MS Stockholm rammed into the Italian luxury ocean liner SS Andrea Doria. For the 1,706 passengers and crew, the incident could have…
Pizza Shop features brothers Carmine (Charlie) and Fiore (Fred) Osso, who immigrated from Belmonte Calabro (Cosenza province) Calabria, in the mid-1960s. For more than forty…
Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro ((2016), 71 min.Max Lewkowicz, dir.) chronicles the life of a man who played two roles during World…
In 1971 patrolman Frank Serpico became the world’s most famous whistleblower, exposing rampant corruption in the New York City Police Department. Peter Maas’s best-selling book…
In Italian with English subtitles. Borsalino City tells the story of the iconic hat and its relationship to Hollywood movies. The legend originated in Alessandria…
In Hebrew and Italian with English subtitles. On the run from the Nazis, three Italian Jewish brothers spent months as children hiding in a cave…
Anton Evangelista, dir. Award-winning filmmaker Anton Evangelista travels from the Bronx to Italy and back in presenting Il Signor Jackson, a story of African American…
Vado verso dove vengo (I’m Going Where I Came From) (2019), 63 minutes Nicola Ragone, dir. Vado verso dove vengo offers a complex meditation on…
Dear Sirs (2021), 93 minutes Mark Pedri, dir. Filmmaker Mark Pedri had never heard his grandfather Silvio’s story, despite spending nearly every day with him…
On October 15, 1915, in the mountains of Western Canada, a tragic work accident ended the life of twenty-eight-year-old Angelo Conte, a young immigrant from…
Calliari, QC (2022), 48 minutes Anita Aloisio, dir. After a successful thirty-year career in heavy metal and Italian-language world music, Montreal singer/songwriter Marco Calliari tackles…