Asian & Pacific Islander Stories

Fire Island

A group of queer best friends gather in Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter, but a sudden change of events might make this their last summer in gay paradise.

R • Comedy, Romance • Movie (2022)

Together as One: Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage – A Soul of a Nation Presentation

The network’s first-ever primetime program celebrating diversity and recognizing the accomplishments and contributions of the vibrant Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community.

Award Shows & Events, Documentaries • TV Series (2022)

TAAF AAPI Heritage Heroes

A special showcasing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

TV Series (2022)

PEN15

PEN15 is middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen.

TVMA • Comedy • TV Series (2019)

Good Trouble

Residents of a communal living space juggle career, sex, love and friendship, while fighting for social justice and queer rights by making noise and getting into good trouble.

TV14 • Drama • TV Series (2019)

Crush

When an aspiring young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she’s been harboring a long-time crush on. But she soon finds herself falling for an unexpected teammate.

TVMA • Comedy, Romance • Movie (2022)

Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Following a two-year long pandemic, racial violence against Asian Americans persists as the community searches for answers. ABC News’ Juju Chang sits down with leading Asian American voices to delve deep into conversations about racism, violence, mental health and change for a better future.

Award Shows & Events • TV Series

The Resident

A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.

TV14 • Medical, Drama • TV Series (2018)

The Family Law

Welcome to "The Family Law," the story of a sprawling Chinese-Australian family who are unlike any you've ever met... and yet, they may also be disturbingly familiar.

Comedy, Drama • TV Series (2016)

Outrun by Running Man

Kim Jong Kook, HaHa, Jee Seok Jin, Song Ji Hyo, and Yang Se Chan are all united and going big in this original spin-off of the hit "Running Man" series- from wild competition matches to superstar guests.

Variety, Game Shows • TV Series (2021)

Attack on Titan

From the director of Death Note comes Attack on Titan. Many years ago, humanity was forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. This is their story.

TVMA • Action, Animation • TV Series (2013)

Anupama (Hindi)

Despite the many challenges thrown her way, Anupama begins a new chapter of her life post-divorce. Head held always high, what's waiting for her next?

TV14 • Drama • TV Series (2021)

Creamerie

A post-apocalyptic dark comedy set in the not-too-distant future, "Creamerie" takes place after a viral plague has wiped out all men, leading to a new world order designed by women.

Comedy, International • TV Series (2021)

The Donut King

Everything you thought you knew about the donut begins with Ted Ngoy. This is the unlikely story of a Cambodian refugee arriving in America in 1975 and building a multi-million-dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry.

Documentaries • Movie (2020)

Yakuza Princess

When a Japanese gang boss is killed, his infant daughter is sent overseas. Twenty years later, she unleashes a war against her pursuers, armed with a mysterious sword and aided by an amnesiac man with his own dark past.

Thriller • Movie (2021)

The Choe Show

World-renowned artist David Choe turns his eccentric, compassionate and disruptive worldview into a lens for an audience to experience a kind of radical empathy for others. From the walls of his childhood home, Choe takes his guests on a journey where he is both a motivational interviewer and compassionate listener. While using the acts of art and play, both Choe and his guests depart on a journey of shared emotional experience. It is through their bonded and authentic connection that Choe is able to bring forth an of-the-moment honesty to the portraiture he’s creating.

TVMA • Lifestyle & Culture, Variety • TV Series (2021)

The Next Thing You Eat

From chef David Chang and Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville, The Next Thing You Eat is a six-episode docuseries that explores the seismic changes happening all around us and what they mean for the way we'll eat in the future. Chang and a diverse cast of characters dive headfirst into what lies ahead, including everything from burger-flipping robots, to lab-grown fish, to insect farms, to artificial intelligence calling all the shots.

TVMA • Lifestyle & Culture, Documentaries • TV Series (2021)

Superstore

Revolving around a group of employees at a big-box store, it examines love, friendship and the beauty of everyday moments.

TV14 • Comedy, Sitcom • TV Series (2015)

Vanguard

Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.

Thriller, Action • Movie (2020)

Blackpink: The Movie

K-pop group ‘BLACKPINK’ celebrates the 5th anniversary of their debut with a feature film release.

Music, Documentaries • Movie (2021)

Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi

In Taste the Nation, award winning cookbook author, host and executive producer Padma Lakshmi, takes audiences on a journey across America, exploring the rich and diverse food culture of various immigrant groups, seeking out the people who have so heavily shaped what American food is today. From indigenous communities to recent immigrant arrivals, Padma breaks bread with Americans across the nation to uncover the roots and relationship between our food, our humanity and our history - ultimately revealing stories that challenge notions of identity, belonging, and what it means to be American.

TV14 • Lifestyle & Culture, Cooking & Food • TV Series (2020)

Killing Eve

Villanelle is a psychopathic assassin, and Eve is the woman charged with hunting her down; the two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.

TV14 • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2018)

Community

Disbarred lawyer Jeff Winger enrolls in a local community college. While there, he forms a study group who eventually learn more about themselves than their course work.

TV14 • Sitcom, Comedy • TV Series (2009)

Dollface

Kat Dennings stars as a young woman who, after being dumped by her longtime boyfriend, must deal with her own imagination when she literally and metaphorically re-enters the world of women, in order to rekindle the female friendships she left behind. Also starring Brenda Song, Shay Mitchell, and Esther Povitsky.

TVMA • Comedy • TV Series (2019)

Little Fires Everywhere

EMMY® NOMINATED Starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller, the story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.

TVMA • Drama, Black Stories • TV Series (2020)

(Sub) Akira

Clandestine army activities threaten the war torn city of Neo-Tokyo when a mysterious child with powerful psychic abilities escapes his prison and inadvertently draws a violent motorcycle gang into a heinous web of experimentation.

R • Animation, Science Fiction • Movie (1988)

Nomadland

A woman loses everything and journeys as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad. From Searchlight Pictures.

R • Drama • Movie (2020)

Conan the Barbarian

The tale of Conan the Cimmerian and his adventures across the continent of Hyboria on a quest to avenge the murder of his father and the slaughter of his village.

TV14 • Fantasy, Action • Movie (2011)

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Maya, the young communications director for a New York senatorial campaign, receives a wedding invitation from her college schoolmate now living in London. She leaves her professional and personal life behind, in favor of traveling to England and reconnecting with old friends and ends up in the midst of their personal crises. Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused, and of course, there are four weddings…and a funeral.

TVMA • Comedy, Romance • TV Series (2019)

Fresh off the Boat

It’s the '90s and 12 year old, hip-hop loving Eddie just moved to suburban Orlando from DC’s Chinatown with his parents. It’s culture shock for his immigrant family in this comedy about pursuing the American Dream.

TV14 • Comedy, Family • TV Series (2015)

A Million Little Things

They say friendship isn’t one big thing, it’s a million little things; and that’s true for a group of friends from Boston who bonded under unexpected circumstances. Some have achieved success, others are struggling in their careers and relationships, but all of them feel stuck in life. After one of them dies unexpectedly, it’s just the wake-up call the others need to finally start living. Along the way they discover that friends may be the one thing to save them from themselves.

TV14 • Drama • TV Series (2018)

Hotel Mumbai

A gripping true story that recounts the siege of the Taj Hotel by terrorists in Mumbai. Refusing to leave their guests, hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.

R • Thriller, Action • Movie (2018)

Ip Man: Kung Fu Master

Decades before becoming Bruce Lee’s legendary teacher, the young Ip Man, then a police captain in Foshan, is targeted by the vengeful daughter of a ruthless mobster, just as the Japanese army invades the region.

Action, Martial Arts • Movie (2019)

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

This is the story of 85-year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station.

PG • Documentaries, International • Movie (2012)

Jumanji: The Next Level

A team of friends returns to Jumanji to rescue one of their own and must brave parts unknown in order to escape the world's most dangerous game.

PG-13 • Comedy, Action • Movie (2019)

Lost

ABC's LOST explores the destiny of the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 who crashed on an island. The survivors not only have to rely on each other, but also cope with the secrets the mysterious island holds. Some become friends, others enemies and some stories remain to be told. There's much more than meets the eye, as it becomes apparent that everyone is somehow connected and that everyone has a purpose.

TV14 • Science Fiction, Mystery • TV Series (2004)

Marvel's Runaways

Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Marvel’s Runaways is the story of six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other but who must unite against a common foe – their parents.

TV14 • Science Fiction, Teen • TV Series (2017)

The Mindy Project

A single-camera comedy, starring Mindy Kaling, that follows a skilled OB/GYN navigating the tricky waters of both her personal and professional life, as she pursues her dreams of becoming the perfect woman, finding the perfect man and getting her perfect romantic comedy ending.

TV14 • Comedy, Sitcom • TV Series (2012)

Ms. Purple

Working as a karaoke hostess in Los Angeles' Koreatown, young Kasie isn't equipped to care for her dying father. With no other choice, she turns to her estranged brother for help, and the two begin a wary reconciliation.

Drama • Movie (2019)

Naruto Shippuden

The Village Hidden in the Leaves is home to the stealthiest ninja in the land. But twelve years earlier, a fearsome Nine-tailed Fox terrorized the village before it was subdued and its spirit sealed within the body of a baby boy. Now that boy, Naruto, has grown up to become a hyperactive ninja-in-training who's more interested in pranks than schoolwork...but Naruto is determined to become the greatest ninja ever!

TV14 • Fantasy, International • TV Series (2007)

One-Punch Man

Saitama only became a hero for fun, but after three years of “special” training, he finds that he can beat even the mightiest opponents with a single punch. Though he faces new enemies every day, it turns out being devastatingly powerful is actually kind of a bore. Can a hero be too strong?

TVMA • Adventure, Comedy • TV Series (2015)

Parasite

Greed, class discrimination, and a mysterious interloper threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

R • Korean, Comedy • Movie (2019)

The One

In The One, parallel universes collide when a rogue agent assigned to monitor these universes begins eliminating versions of himself in each alternate reality.

PG-13 • Time Travel, Science Fiction • Movie (2001)

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