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INDEPENDENT LENS | AT HOME IN UTOPIA | Film Clip #2 | PBS

Duration: 02:00

A home of your own: that's the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers and Communists?

In this clip, Jewish immigrants buy land in the Bronx to realize their dream: the largest cooperative apartment complex built to date in America.

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Post Date: April 21, 2009