If you can watch only one, watch Destination America: The People and Cultures that Created a Nation
http://www.amazon.com/Destination-America-People-Cultures-Created/dp/B000E0LLQS/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1
Other documentaries worth watching:
http://www.amazon.com/Which-Way-Home-Andrew-Holbrooke/dp/B0042EJDGM/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_img_y
Hard to find:
http://immigrantnationfilm.com/
Carved in Silence, about Angel Island: http://www.lowedownproductions.com/purchase/
http://www.cetel.org/island.html
Fictionalized accounts:
http://www.amazon.com/A-Better-Life-Demi%C3%A1n-Bichir/dp/B005HFI7IU/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_img_z
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Barbed-Wire-For-Broke/dp/B00005MEVY/ref=pd_cp_mov_3
Farewell to Manzanar