Japanese American Internment Movies
- 2017
Resistance at Tule Lake
Resistance at Tule Lake02017HD
The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II....
- 1970
Tanforan: Race Track to Assembly Center
Tanforan: Race Track to Assembly Center01970HD
From Race Track to Assembly Center documents life for San Francisco Bay Area residents of Japanese ancestry incarcerated at the Tanforan Race Track...
- 2023
The Chest of Ryou
The Chest of Ryou02023HD
Amid the hysteria of World War II, a Chinese-American private investigator meets with a Japanese-American client and must choose between his desire...
- 2001
Skate Manzanar
Skate Manzanar02001HD
A meditation on skateboarding, civil liberties and memory. Inspired by the essay by Martin Wong, "Return to Manzanar", based on a trip he took with...
- 1970
Enemy Alien
Enemy Alien01970HD
A Palestinian activist's fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present.
- 1970
Conscience and the Constitution
Conscience and the Constitution91970HD
Americans refused to be drafted from the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Ready to fight, but not before their rights as U.S. citizens...
- 2015
Freeway City
Freeway City02015HD
FREEWAY CITY is a provocative case study on how the collision of race, politics and casino economics shaped the destiny of Gardena, California.
- 2015
Changing Season
Changing Season02015HD
Venture out to the Masumoto Farm – eighty acres of prime, peach-growing orchards – where seven varieties of the sweet juicy fruit are...
- 1970
Before They Take Us Away
Before They Take Us Away01970HD
At the start of World War II, Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were faced with the threat of forced removal and incarceration in...
- 1970
Our American Family: The Furutas
Our American Family: The Furutas01970HD
A Japanese-American family establishes a goldfish farm, only to have the business -- and family -- devastated by World War II.