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Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip

2011 film by Alexandra Pelosi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5122589 ↗
Source-derived summary

Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip is an HBO documentary film directed by Alexandra Pelosi.

Overview

A documentary about new American immigrants that spans all fifty states.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip” as 2011 film by Alexandra Pelosi. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Citizen, State and Road.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current 28-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Citizen, State and Road providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip”, the useful work is to connect “2011 film by Alexandra Pelosi” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5122589. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip primary sources, Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip archive and Citizen research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.