
Little Manila: Filipinos in California's Heartland
Season 5 Episode 10 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
The immigrant story as Filipinos experienced it in Stockton.
Filled with chop suey houses, gambling dens, and dance halls, Little Manila was the area in Stockton notoriously called, Skid Row, but it was also the closest thing Filipinos had to a hometown. Narrated by famed Filipino-American producer, Dean Devlin (Independence Day, The Patriot) this documentary tells the immigrant story as Filipinos experienced it.
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Little Manila: Filipinos in California's Heartland
Season 5 Episode 10 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Filled with chop suey houses, gambling dens, and dance halls, Little Manila was the area in Stockton notoriously called, Skid Row, but it was also the closest thing Filipinos had to a hometown. Narrated by famed Filipino-American producer, Dean Devlin (Independence Day, The Patriot) this documentary tells the immigrant story as Filipinos experienced it.
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