Japanese American Internment Movies

  • 2010
    The Untold Story of Ralph Carr and the Japanese: The Fate of 3 Japanese-Americans and the Internment

    The Untold Story of Ralph Carr and the Japanese: The Fate of 3 Japanese-Americans and the Internment

    The Untold Story of Ralph Carr and the Japanese: The Fate of 3 Japanese-Americans and the Internment

    02010HD

    This historical documentary tells the little-known story of Ralph Carr, who was the Governor of Colorado from 1939-1943. Governor Carr was a...

    The Untold Story of Ralph Carr and the Japanese: The Fate of 3 Japanese-Americans and the Internment
  • 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
  • 2009
    Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

    Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

    Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

    02009HD

    Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol is both a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American...

    Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol
  • 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
  • 2023
    The Chest of Ryou

    The Chest of Ryou

    The Chest of Ryou

    02023HD

    Amid the hysteria of World War II, a Chinese-American private investigator meets with a Japanese-American client and must choose between his desire...

    The Chest of Ryou
  • 2015
    Changing Season

    Changing Season

    Changing Season

    02015HD

    Venture out to the Masumoto Farm – eighty acres of prime, peach-growing orchards – where seven varieties of the sweet juicy fruit are...

    Changing Season
  • 2024
    Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama

    Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama

    Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama

    02024HD

    Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama tells the epic journey of the late Japanese Canadian photographer Tamio Wakayama who decides to join the...

    Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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