Funded by: Illinois Humanities Council; the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the Illinois General Assembly

Act I: A new beginning. -- Act II: The rise of a community. -- Act III: Italian or American. -- Act IV: Ethnic survival

Traces the Italian American experience in Chicago (Ill.) through archival photographs and footage plus interviews with historians, authors and Italian American residents of Chicago

Editor, Martin Nelson ; Supervising producer and sound designer, Beppe Mangione; Associate producers, Michelle Ferrell and Bill Dal Cerro

Narrator: Joe Mategna

DVD; stereo

System requirements to access resoure guide: PC or Mac computer; Adobe Acrobat Reader; DVD-ROM drive

Subtitles available in English and Italian

Special features: More Chicago Italian stories

(18 min.). --

In the spotlight: Joe Mantegna

(17 min.). --

Little Italies of Chicago. -- History makers. -- And they wrote about Chicago. -- How they saw us, how we see ourselves. -- Resource guide