Japanese American Internment Movies

  • 1970
    Sam

    Sam

    Sam

    01970HD

    A 1971 film study of a Japanese American who lived in a detention camp during World War II.

    Sam
  • 2015
    Freeway City

    Freeway City

    Freeway City

    02015HD

    FREEWAY CITY is a provocative case study on how the collision of race, politics and casino economics shaped the destiny of Gardena, California.

    Freeway City
  • 2017
    Resistance at Tule Lake

    Resistance at Tule Lake

    Resistance at Tule Lake

    02017HD

    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....

    Resistance at Tule Lake
  • 2001
    Skate Manzanar

    Skate Manzanar

    Skate Manzanar

    02001HD

    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...

    Skate Manzanar
  • 1970
    Enemy Alien

    Enemy Alien

    Enemy Alien

    01970HD

    A Palestinian activist's fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present.

    Enemy Alien
  • 2023
    Grandpa Cherry Blossom

    Grandpa Cherry Blossom

    Grandpa Cherry Blossom

    02023HD

    The story of Francis Uyematsu, a Japanese immigrant, told through the words of his granddaughter, Mary Uyematsu Kao, and Chuck Currier, a local...

    Grandpa Cherry Blossom
  • 1970
    Conscience and the Constitution

    Conscience and the Constitution

    Conscience and the Constitution

    91970HD

    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...

    Conscience and the Constitution
  • 1970
    Tanforan: Race Track to Assembly Center

    Tanforan: Race Track to Assembly Center

    Tanforan: Race Track to Assembly Center

    01970HD

    From Race Track to Assembly Center documents life for San Francisco Bay Area residents of Japanese ancestry incarcerated at the Tanforan Race Track...

    Tanforan: Race Track to Assembly Center
  • 1970
    Our American Family: The Furutas

    Our American Family: The Furutas

    Our American Family: The Furutas

    01970HD

    A Japanese-American family establishes a goldfish farm, only to have the business -- and family -- devastated by World War II.

    Our American Family: The Furutas