America America

Ben Mankiewicz introduces America America, 1963.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces America America, 1963.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces America America, 1963.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces America America, 1963.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces America America, 1963.

Troubled Anatolian Greek teen Stavros (Stathis Giallelis) visits his grandmother (Estelle Hemsley) outside town, who speaks of his dead grandfather, and who remains unconvinced he has the nerve to leave for the U.S.A, ca. 1896, in Elia Kazan's novelized family history America America, 1963.

Writer and director working from his own novel Elia Kazan, narrates the opening to his family historical epic, introducing Armenian Vartan (Frank Wolff) and Greek Stavros (Stathis Giallelis), in America America, 1963.

Armenian Christians in an Anatolian village scrambling as Turkish authorities begin a crackdown, Vartan (Frank Wolff) and Greek business partner Stavros (Stathis Giallelis) carry on selling ice, the latter scolded by his father (Harry Davis) early in Elia Kazan's family history America America, 1963.