In the 1970s Dr. Gary Seaman made a series of ethnographic films featuring village life in a Taiwanese mountain village. This film merges images from Taiwan with verbal ethnographic description from Fujian to provide the audience with a multimodal integration of visual and written ethnography of Chinese social life.

Natives is a black and white documentary that captures the views of people in the anti-immigration movement in San Diego as a result of the influx in undocumented aliens.