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1. Day of Independence (2003)

27 min | Short, Family, History

The creators of Visas and Virtue (1997) (1997 Academy Award Winner, Best Live Action Short Film) bring you another important historical narrative. This dramatic film, set in a Japanese ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Tashima | Stars: Derek Mio, Marcus Toji, Alan Muraoka, Keiko Kawashima

Votes: 56

2. Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp (2022)

56 min | Documentary, History

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

Director: Rory Banyard | Stars: Tamlyn Tomita, Frank Chin, Mike Ishii, Paul Nagano

Votes: 19

3. Rabbit in the Moon (1999)

85 min | Documentary, Biography, History

This documentary is about the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II.

Director: Emiko Omori | Stars: Emiko Omori, Chizuko Omori, Frank Emi, Aiko Yoshinaga-Herzig

Votes: 128

4. Children of the Camps (1999 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary

More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned behind barbed wire during World War II - over half were children. This documentary captures the experiences of six Americans of Japanese ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Holsapple | Stars: Howard Ikemoto, Satsuki Ina, Marion Kanemoto, Bessie Masuda

5. Old Man River (1999)

73 min | Documentary

Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a long career in films and television, ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Holzman | Stars: Jerry Fujikawa, Cynthia Gates Fujikawa

Votes: 18

6. Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray (2002)

29 min | Documentary, Short

Called "an elegant documentary" by Sundance and "eloquent and deeply moving" by the LA Times, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray is a penetrating portrait of this photographer's search ... See full summary »

Director: Robert A. Nakamura | Star: Toyo Miyatake

Votes: 9

7. Taky Kimura: The Dragon's Legacy (2000)

47 min | Documentary

One day before his high school graduation, Taky Kimura was taken into the Japanese American Internment Camp. Emerging from the camp after the war, he was a dispirited and broken young man. ... See full summary »

Director: Mellissa Tong

8. The Nisei Farmer (2003)

12 min | Short, Drama, War

When the U.S. government makes reparations for the injustices suffered by the Japanese Americans during World War II, memories of a stolen youth resurface for a Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) farmer in northern California.

Director: Dean Yamada | Stars: Steven Kondo, Jude Narita, Deborah O'Brien, Mark Ofuji

Votes: 18

9. Worlds Apart (2004)

Drama, War

A Japanese-American father and son must confront their contrasting views of America within the anti-Japanese climate of a World War II American internment camp.

Director: Jesse Kobayashi | Stars: West Liang, Sab Shimono

Votes: 14

10. Surveillances (2003)

23 min | War, Drama, Short

It is 1942, and to aid its intelligence gathering efforts, the United States War Office authorizes a surveillance case to capture the meeting of two strangers in a park in Brooklyn. One is ... See full summary »

Director: Jay Weisman | Stars: Stephen Benson, Patrick Wang

Votes: 22

11. The War: Nisei Soldiers (2007 TV Movie)

30 min | Documentary, War

Explores the experience of Japanese-American WWII veterans of the South Bay and Central Coast of California who stepped forward to fight valiantly for their country despite the internment ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Gracheff | Star: Dave Tatsuno

12. Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010)
Episode: Reparations (2006)

TV-MA | 27 min | Comedy, Documentary

Penn and Teller ask if it is right that black Americans should be compensated for slavery, if native Americans should be allowed to run casinos on their land.

Directors: Star Price, Scott Firestone, Joshua E. Kessler, Chip Selby | Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, James David Audlin, H.K. Edgerton

Votes: 133