About this series
The USA: Land of Opportunities Collection was a proposed trilogy by Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. It was supposed to include Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), and a final film Wasington which was never made.
All films — in order
1
Dogville
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
2
Manderlay
In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.
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