Little Manila: Filipinos in California’s Heartland.

In its heyday in the 30s, Little Manila in Stockton, CA, had the largest population of Filipinos outside of the Philippines. 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 PBS documentary tells the immigrant story as Filipinos experienced it.