Cinemas, Chinese opera houses, and non-theatrical venues in North American Chinatowns sporadically screened Chinese-language films for diaspora audiences as early as the 1910s and have been reported to form an informal circuit by the 1930s. Yet the peak of dedicated Chinese-language movie theaters extended from the 1960s through the 1980s, as Hong Kong studios targeted overseas audiences and changes to immigration laws in the United States and Canada greatly expanded diaspora communities. Over time, more than 50 North American cities developed theaters or non-theatrical spaces that screened Cantonese and Mandarin film prints both sold and rented from Hong Kong studios and distribution circuits. The aim of this project is to document the histories of these theaters—the majority of which no longer exist in physical form—drawing on archival materials, personal collections, government records, newspapers, ephemera, and oral histories.