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- Stories of Japanese American Internment During WWIICall Number: DVD D769.8.A6.S76 2008Publication Date: 2008This videorecording includes dramatizations and first-hand accounts of three Japanese Americans and their relocation and evacuation experiences during World War II. This presentation was recorded at Las Positas College on September 10, 2008.
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A sample listing of DVDs on Japanese Americans, Japanese Internment and Reparations in the LPC Library:
- Stories of Japanese American Internment During WWIICall Number: DVD D769.8.A6.S77 2008Publication Date: 2008This videorecording includes dramatizations and first-hand accounts of three Japanese Americans and their relocation and evacuation experiences during World War II. This presentation was recorded at Las Positas College on September 11, 2008.
- Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness byCall Number: DVD D804.66 .S84 S85 2005Publication Date: 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."
- Unfinished business: The Japanese American internment cases byCall Number: DVD D769.8 .A6 U54 2005Publication Date: 2005In the spring of 1942, more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were uprooted from their lives and incarcerated in relocation camps. Their stories, along with those who refused to go, are told in this Oscar nominated film.
- Toyo's camera: Japanese American history during WWII byCall Number: DVD D769.8 A6 T68 2009Publication Date: 2009While bringing cameras into internment camps was prohibited, one photographer smuggled in his own camera lens and built a camera to take photographs of life behind barbed wires in Manzanar War Relocation Center. That man was photographer Toyo Miyatake. Through an artistic medium, Miyatake captured the devastating conditions during WWII, when Japanese Americans could not belong to Japan or America.
- Of civil wrongs and rights: The Fred Korematsu story byCall Number: DVD KF7224.5 O3 2006Publication Date: 2006In 1942, Fred Korematsu was an average 23-year-old California native working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9066, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps, he became something extraordinary -- a civil rights champion. This film follows Korematsu's story from the moment he first resisted confinement to the hard-won victory he finally achieved 39 years later, with the help of a new generation of Japanese-American activists seeking vindication and the assurance that such a terrible injustice would never occur again. This is the striking story of an ordinary man's courageous actions, which demonstrates the power of ordinary citizens to rise up against injustice
