Movies and TvShows featuring "japanese-internment" theme.

Snow Falling on Cedars is a drama mystery movie set in the 1950s on a fictional island in Washington state. It follows the trial of a Japanese-American man accused of murder, which uncovers deep-seated racial prejudice and a forbidden romance. Amidst a snowstorm, a journalist, the defendant's wife, and a journalist's friend team up to uncover the truth behind the crime. The movie explores themes of injustice, understanding, and the impact of World War II on Japanese-Americans.

The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.

Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup is a documentary that explores the various conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11 attacks. It delves into the evidence and raises questions about the official narrative.

Documentary following six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were held in U.S. internment camps during World War II.

A Bitter Legacy is a thought-provoking documentary that explores the deep-rooted conflicts and the lasting impact of a bitter family feud. It sheds light on the secrets, betrayals, and struggles that have shaped the lives of those involved. Through interviews and archival footage, the film uncovers the truth behind the legacy of resentment and its ripple effects.

Farewell to Manzanar is a gripping drama that portrays the harrowing experience of Japanese-Americans who were forced to live in internment camps during World War II. The movie powerfully depicts the struggles, resilience, and spirit of the internees as they face racism, confinement, and loss of freedom. Based on a true story, Farewell to Manzanar sheds light on this dark chapter in American history and serves as a reminder of the importance of preserving civil liberties.

A documentary portrait of the late Earl Warren, the Chief Justice who presided over the Supreme Court during some of its most turbulent years from 1953 to 1969.

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

The Los Angeles Times Critics' Pick Something’s Gonna Live is an intimate portrait of life, death, friendship and the movies, as recalled by some of Hollywood's greatest cinema artists. Academy Award®-nominated director Daniel Raim (The Man on Lincoln’s Nose), captures the late life coming together of renowned art directors Robert Boyle (North by Northwest, The Birds), Henry Bumstead (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting) and Albert Nozaki (The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments), storyboard illustrator Harold Michelson (The Graduate, Star Trek: The Motion Picture), and master cinematographers Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Medium Cool) and Conrad Hall (In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). These prolific artists have worked on a total of 400 films, garnering 25 Academy Award® nominations and 8 wins.

Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.

A documentary about the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp during WWII.

In Japanese, “shi kata ga nai” means “it can't be helped”. As a phrase, it represents the philosophical basis of the Japanese cultural reserve, through which adversity is never acknowledged. Nancy Okura is a Canadian of Japanese decent. During the Second World War, she was involuntarily removed from her home and relocated to an internment camp by the Government of Canada. Shi kata ga nai prevented Nancy Okura from ever speaking about her internment.

This short documentary produced by the University of Oregon Multimedia Journalism graduate program explores memories of Portland's Japantown – Nihonmachi – and the thriving Japanese American community in Oregon prior to World War II. The film features Chisao Hata, an artist, teacher and activist, and Jean Matsumoto, who was incarcerated at the Portland Assembly Center and in the Minidoka concentration camp as a child.

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 concentration camps. A small number took their fate in their own hands, fleeing to interior states, becoming refugees in their own country, on a forced migration into the unknown. Before They Take Us Away is the first feature documentary to chronicle the untold stories of the “self-evacuees” who spent the war years outside the camps, as they struggled to rebuild their lives and overcome poverty, isolation, hostility and racial violence.

Built on the words of its subject, Enemy Alien recreates the emotional journey of this overlooked historical event from a unique perspective to ask pertinent questions about Australia's history and future.

Samuel Wilder King, a descendant of Scottish sailors and Hawaiian royalty, served as a distinguished Naval officer in both World Wars before becoming Governor of the Hawaii Territory. This short film delves into King’s fearless leadership—from navigating the high seas during WWI to fighting against the internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii during WWII—ultimately championing Hawaii's path to statehood as the 50th star on the American flag.

This documentary was secretly and 'illegally' shot inside the prison camps, established during World War II by American authorities to detain US citizens of Japanese descent who were considered a potential threat to national security.