After America -- After Japan. Videorecording. Global
Film Network, 1999. MV 22970. "Examine[s]
the lives of a selected group of persons in both countries who
continue to face the challenges to determine their new cultural
identity." Japanese Americans - cultural assimilation and
ethnic identity.
Beyond Barbed Wire. Videorecording. Mac and Ava Picture
Productions, 1997. MV 22861. "Recounts
the personal sacrifices and untold stories of heroism displayed
by the Japanese American soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion,
442nd Regimental Combat Team and Military Intelligence Service
who fought for America while their families were held in internment
camps."
The Century : America's Time. 7, Homefront. Videorecording.
Produced by ABC News in association with the History Channel.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1999. MV 22793.
This program discusses the effects of World War II on the homefront,
spotlighting the war's impact as a catalyst for economic, demographic
and social change with Peter Jennings.
Children Of The Camps: A Documentary and Educational Project.
Videorecording. National Asian American Telecommunications
Association, 1999. MV 22840. In this documentary
six Japanese Americans who were incarcerated as children in
the camps reveal their experiences, cultural and familial issues
during incarceration, the long internalized grief and shame
they felt and how this early trauma manifested itself in their
adult lives.
The Color of Honor. Videorecording. NAATA Distribution,
1996. MV 23478. "A vivid, collective
portrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II. Three
distinct stories are told: the 442nd Regimental Combat Team,
the most decorated military unit in U.S. history; M.I.S.(Military
Intelligence Service), linguists who decoded Japanese military
plans; and the thousands of draft resisters and army protesters
who challenged the constitutionality of the internment camps."
Come See The Paradise. Videorecording. Twentieth Century-Fox
Film. CBS/Fox Video, 1991. MV 22756. Set against
the background of a controversial period in American history,
the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, Come
See The Paradise is the love story of an Irish-American
man and a beautiful Japanese-American woman. Closed captioned.
Conscience and the Constitution. Videorecording. Resisters.com
produced in association with the Independent Television Service.
Transit Media, 2000. MV 23217. Heart
Mountain: "The largest organized resistance to incarceration,
leading to the largest trial for draft resistance in U.S. history." Closed
captioned.
Days of Waiting: The Life and Art of Estelle Ishigo. Videorecording.
Farallon Documentary Films, 1990. MV 23480. "Documentary
about artist Estelle Peck Ishigo, a Caucasian woman interned
during World War II with her Japanese American husband at Heart
Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. Portrays through her words
and drawings and through photographs, of the deprivations and
humiliations of camp life, and the difficulties of readjustment
at war's end. "
Dear Miss Breed. Videorecording. UCLA Asian American
Studies Center : Japanese American National Museum, 2001. MV
23502. "The real life story of how San Diego
children's librarian Clara Breed became an unlikely hero to
Japanese American youth in one of America's concentration camps
in Poston, Arizona. Set against sweeping visuals of camp life
documented by rare home movies, excerpts from some of the 250
letters Miss Breed saved from wartime correspondences with
the students present an ardent chronology of the young inmates'
upheaval, incarceration and eventual resettlement through their
own words." There is a Teacher's Guide with good print
information included.
A Family Gathering. Videorecording. Lise Yasui and
Ann Tegnell. PBS Video, 1989. MV 21130. Tells
the dramatic story of the consequences of the U.S. internment
and the Yasui family’s long battle to reclaim their place
as Americans. Closed captioned.
Farewell to Manzanar. Videorecording. By Jeanne Wakatsuki
Houston. Universal Studios, 2000. MV 23541. "A
fact based drama ... focuses on the Wakatsukis, a Japanese-American
family living in Santa Monica, California in the early 1940s.
Thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent, along with
the Wakatsukis are shipped to the internment camp of Manzanar
in California."
Fifty Years of Silence: The Untold Story of Japanese American
Soldiers in the Pacific Theater, 1941-1952. Videorecording.
National Japanese American Historical Society, 1993. MV
23482. "Tells the story of the thousands of Japanese-American
soldiers who served in world War II as linguists and language
specialists for the Intelligence Service. These soldiers were
responsible for interpreting the masses of information gathered
from Japan, from radio signals to maps, books, and letters,
and were of vital importance to the Allied intelligence effort
in the Pacific."
From A Different Shore: An American Identity. Videorecording.
Films for the Humanities, 1996. MV 22175. Examines
the experience of Japanese immigrants in the United States,
including internment of many during World War II.
Go for Broke. Videorecording. MGM/UA Home Video, 1991. MV
22893. "Fine WWII drama with Lt. Michael Grayson,
a bigoted Texan, assigned to train and lead the 442nd Regimental
Combat Team, composed mostly of Japanese-Americans." Originally
released in 1951 as motion picture
Harsh Canvas: The Art and Life of Henry Sugimoto. Videorecording.
Japanese American National Museum, 2001. MV 23504. "From
Japan to California, on to Paris, then to concentration camps
in Arkansas that transformed his art forever and finally to
New York, Henry Sugimoto pursued what he called 'the path of
an artist'."
The Heart Mountain Relocation Camp Story (computer
file). Antonette Chambers Noble. Vision West Production, 1998. CDM
125. Note: The Pearl Harbor segment lacks audio track.
Heart Mountain: Three Years in a Relocation Center. Videorecording.
National Asian American Telecommunications Association 1997. MV
22947. "Documentary of the World War II incarceration
in Wyoming of more than 10,000 Pacific Coast Japanese and Japanese
American's for 'military necessity.' The hastily-built barracks
which housed them were surrounded by barbed wire while winter
temperatures reached 28 below zero and summer brought dust
storms. These interviews with those interned reveal additional
ordeals such as questions about their loyalty to the U.S. and
the imprisonment of 63 who resisted the draft after their military
status was changed."
Honor Bound: A Personal Journey. Videorecording. The
National Japanese American Historical Society, KPIX 5 Television,
and Flower Village Films, 1995. MV 21443.
The story, as told by Sgt. Howard Hanamura to his daughter,
of the 100th/442 Regimental Combat Team, a segregated, Japanese
American combat unit which fought in Europe during World War
II. The ultimate mission of these soldiers was upholding the
honor of their people.
Interactions. Videorecording. UCLA Asian American
Studies Center and Japanese American National Museum, 2001. MV
23501 "Chronicles four high school students as
they are given four days to tackle one mission: find out what
life was like for teenagers in Japanese American concentration
camps during World War II." There is a Teacher's Guide
with good print information included.
Japanese Relocation. Videorecording. Office of War
Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures, and Zenger Video, 1980. MV
22237. Presents the U.S. government’s 1943 official
explanation for the removal of 110,000 persons of Japanese
descent from the Pacific Coast and their relocation in Arizona,
Colorado, Wyoming, Arkansas, Utah, Idaho, and the deserts of
California.
Looking Like The Enemy. Videorecording. Japanese American
National Museum, [199-]. MV 22948. "American
soldiers of Asian descent who fought in World War II, the Korean
and Vietnam Wars share their personal experiences with prejudice
and discrimination in the military."
Mission in Manila: The Sakakida Story. Videorecording.
National Japanese American Historical Society, 1994. MV
23485. "Richard Sakakida describes how, as a
20-year-old Japanese-American ROTC student, he was sent on
an undercover intelligence mission to Manila in 1941. This
began a five year odyssey that would result in his capture,
torture and finally his escape. "
Moving Memories. Videorecording. Narrated by George
Takei. Japanese American National Museum, [1990?]. MV
22978. Restored and edited home movies of Japanese
American immigrants from the 1920s and 1930s.
The New Americans: Chrysanthemums and Salt. Videorecording.
The National Asian American Telecommunications Association,
1994. MV 23550. Profiles the immigration
experience and lives of Japanese Americans in San Mateo, California
from 1942 to 1972, focusing on their contributions to the floral,
farming, and salt industries.
Nisei Soldier: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People. Videorecording.
Vox Productions, 1984. MV 23454 "Examines
the moral and political contradictions experienced by a group
of Americans of Japanese ancestry who, during World War II,
proved their loyalty by heroic military service while their
families were imprisoned by their own government. Includes
archival material from World War II interwoven with present
day interviews with survivors of the 442nd Japanese-American
Regimental Combat Team."
Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story. Videorecording.
National Asian American Telecommunications Association, 2000. MV
23362. "Fred Korematsu was probably
never more American than when he resisted, and then challenged
in court, the forced internment of Japanese Americans during
World War II. Korematsu lost his landmark Supreme Court case
in 1944, but never his indignation and resolve. This is the
untold history of the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu
-- one that finally turned a civil injustice into a civil rights
victory."
Old Man River. Videorecording. Theatre West, 1999. MV
22737. " In a one-woman performance Cynthia Fujikawa
memorializes her father, the actor Jerry Fujikawa. Beginning
in 1948 Jerry Fujikawa played supporting roles in many television
programs and motion pictures, but it was many years before
his daughter learned about his previous family and experiences
during World War II as a Japanese American living in California.
It was only after he died that she found her half-sister."
Pearl Harbor: Two Hours That Changed the World. Videorecording.
MPI Home Video, 1991. MV 21214 "ABC News
and NHK, Japan's oldest and largest television network, combined
their resources to produce this program about the attack on
Pearl Harbor. Includes rare archival stills and footage as
well as interviews with American and Japanese survivors and
prominent persons."
A Personal Matter : Gordon Hirabayashi versus the United
States. Videorecording. CrossCurrent Media, 1992. MV
23477 "Documents the 43-year stuggle to overturn
the conviction of Gordon Hirabayashi which resulted when he
defied internment in a Japanese-American concentration camp
during World War II on the grounds that the order violated
his Constitutional freedoms."
Rabbit in the Moon. Videorecording. Dir./Writer Emiko
Omori. New Day Films, [2001?]. MV 23408. " ...
a documentary/memoir about the lingering effects of the World
War II internment of the Japanese American community ... Visually
stunning and emotionally compelling ... examines issue[s] that
ultimately created deep rifts within the community, reveals
the racist subtext of the loyalty questionnaire and exposes
the absurdity of the military draft within the camps. These
testimonies are linked by the filmmakers' own experiences in
the camps and placed in a larger historical context by the
voice of the director ... "
Return to the Valley. DVD. Total Media Group, 2003. DVD
D769.8.A6.R48 2003. "At the conclusion of World
War II, 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry
were released after three years of imprisonment in internment
camps. Each was given just $25 and a train ticket home. For
many, home was California -- the Santa Clara or Salinas Valley
or the Central Coast. This poignant documentary tells their
stories of struggle, hardship and triumph as they rebuilt their
lives."
Something Strong Within: Home Movies from America's Concentration
Camps. Videorecording. Japanese American National Museum,
1994. MV 22954. "... Created for the
exhibition, "America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the
Japanese American Experience," featuring never-before-seen
home movies of the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese
Americans during World War II."
Starting Over: Japanese Americans After the War. Videorecording.
San Mateo County Community College and KCSM-TV, 1996. MV
22841 Documents the struggle of Japanese Americans
as they resettled throughout the U.S. following their incarceration
in relocation camps during World War II. Originally produced
for the PBS television program The New Americans.
Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness. DVD. WGBH Boston Video, 2005. DVD D804.66.S84.S85 2005. "This documentary tells the story of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, consul to Lithuania during World War II. Sugihara defied Tokyo authorities and wrote transit visas that allowed hundreds of Jewish families to flee Europe through Russia to Japan and other countries. Includes home movies, photographs, film footage, and interviews with Holocaust survivors who owe their lives to Chiune Sugihara."
Tanforan: Race Track to Assembly Center. Videorecording.
CrossCurrent Media, 1995. MV 23479. "The
Tanforan Race Track was the site of an assembly center, in
1942, where thousands of Japanese Americans lived for as long
as six months, while the more permanent WWII concentration
camps were being built inland. This is the first in-depth study
of an assembly center and the beginnings of new cultural and
social systems, which were developed and then transferred to
the permanent camps. Includes examples of propaganda against
Japanese-Americans in 1942."
Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties. Videorecording.
Bridge Media, Inc., 2001. MV 23503 "Tells
the story of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during
World War II and the Occupation of Japan. Thousands of MIS
soldiers, primarily Japanese American, fought for the United
States in the Pacific interrogating Japanese prisoners, translating
documents, intercepting communications, and infiltrating enemy
lines. Ironically, at the same time, many of their families
back in America were locked in isolated imprisonment camps,
stripped of their civil rights."
Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment Cases. Videorecording.
Farallon Films, 1985. MV 23481. "Tells
the stories of three Japanese-Americans, Fred Korematsu, Gordon
Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui, who resisted the military orders
to intern the Japanese-Americans and remove them from the West
Coast after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Focuses on the three
men's lives and the reasons behind their decisions to take their
cases to the Supreme Court."
The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment
Camps, 1942-1945. Videorecording. UCLA Instructional Media,
[199-]. MV 22945. An interview with Karin
Higa.
We Came To Grow: Japanese Americans in the Central Valley,
1869-1941. Videorecording. KVIE, Inc., 1999. MV
22953. the historical details of the first Japanese
to settle in California's Central Valley and their impact on
the state's leading industry - agriculture. Covers the early
1900s and the attempts to limit immigration, citizenship and
ownership of property.
Without Due Process: Japanese Americans and World War II. Videorecording.
Gerald and Misha Griffith. New Dimension Media, 1992. MV
21734 pt. 1-2 "Describes the violation of the
Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which insists on due process
of law. Tells of the race prejudice, war hysteria, and failure
of political leadership which resulted in the evacuation of
Japanese Americans, and their placement in internship camps
in California, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Arkansas."
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