Family Legend (2021)
• August 28th, 2021 • 0h 8min
Documentary
Overview
In 1916, twenty-year-old Marion Wong wrote and directed The Curse of Quon Gwon, the earliest example of an Asian American film. What initially appears to be a story about a Chinese family cursed for allowing Western influence through the door, proves to be an illuminating examination of cultural diaspora years ahead of its time.Sandwiched between two global pandemics, this documentary follows the Wong family descendents as they secure The Curse of Quon Gwon its place in film history and new revelations rise to the surface.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
Released on: 2003-03-08
Documentary
Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."
Hanging by a Thread
Released on: 2025-09-09
Documentary
Filmmaker Tobias Hermansen, known for Dreamscape and Mentally Unavailable, has battled depression fo...
Infinity: The Universe of Luigi Ghirri
Released on: 2022-10-15
Documentary
In this poetic portrayal of Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992), a master of contemporary photography, the dire...
Confessions of a CEO: My Life in an Out-of-Balance World
Released on: 2025-01-10
Documentary
A bare-knuckled critique of corporate America told through the powerful true story of a toxic CEO wh...
Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
Released on: 2017-11-14
Documentary
A look at legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki following his retirement in 2013.
El circo
Released on: 1950-12-31
Documentary
Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...
Sons of the Surf
Released on: 1926-10-03
Documentary
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...
New Life
Released on: 2023-03-24
Documentary
"Bagong Buhay" is a short experimental film that dispels the common belief that packing up and movin...
Stop the Movie (Cruising)
Released on: 1980-01-01
Documentary
A short film documenting street protests against the filming of William Friedkin's Cruising (1980)
Nightcrawlers
Released on: 2019-08-25
Documentary
For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.
Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs
Released on: 1895-03-05
Documentary
A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another ...
Paper City
Released on: 2021-08-16
Documentary
Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Released on: 1927-09-23
Documentary
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Nanook of the North
Released on: 1922-06-11
Documentary, Drama
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Wabadate
Released on: 1970-01-01
Documentary
Material filmed during and after the battle of Amman, in September 1970. The images document the rub...
My MMXX
Released on: 2021-06-10
Documentary
A compilation of a filmmaker's discard footage, subtly narrating his point of view of the year 2020.
Divan
Released on: 2003-05-01
Documentary
Pearl Gluck travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which...
About Max
Released on: 2019-11-19
Documentary
The intimate and passionate portrait of the late Max Croci in a documentary that recalls the human a...
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head
Released on: 2019-03-14
Documentary
Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...