Internment Camp Movies

  • 2009
    District 9

    District 9

    District 9

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    Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South Afr...

    District 9
  • 1987
    Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun

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    Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w...

    Empire of the Sun
  • 2016
    Allegiance

    Allegiance

    Allegiance

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    Inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei, Allegiance follows one family's extraordinary journey in this untold American story fol...

    Allegiance
  • 1985
    The Dunera Boys

    The Dunera Boys

    The Dunera Boys

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    At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were...

    The Dunera Boys
  • 1950
    Three Came Home

    Three Came Home

    Three Came Home

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    Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisone...

    Three Came Home
  • 1984
    Silver City

    Silver City

    Silver City

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    After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, wh...

    Silver City
  • 2018
    That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations

    That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations

    That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations

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    The documentary tells the little known story of thousands of Ukrainian and Eastern Europeans that were interned in Canadian camps during the First Wor...

    That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations
  • 1998
    Double Solitaire

    Double Solitaire

    Double Solitaire

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    The filmmaker's father and uncle, Norm and Stan, are third generation Japanese Americans. They are "all American" guys who love bowling, cards and pin...

    Double Solitaire
  • 1982
    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

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    After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatri...

    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
  • 1999
    Old Man River

    Old Man River

    Old Man River

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    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 l...

    Old Man River
  • 2017
    A Bitter Legacy

    A Bitter Legacy

    A Bitter Legacy

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    A sobering look at the brutal treatment of Japanese-Americans before, during, and after WWII as well as the global repercussions that resulted.

    A Bitter Legacy
  • 2017
    Resistance at Tule Lake

    Resistance at Tule Lake

    Resistance at Tule Lake

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    The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II. Br...

    Resistance at Tule Lake
  • 2024
    Death March

    Death March

    Death March

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    British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese soldie...

    Death March
  • 1991
    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

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    The story of Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians interned with Japanese Americans during World War II. The wife of a Japanese American, Ishigo r...

    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo
  • 2022
    Enemy Alien

    Enemy Alien

    Enemy Alien

    02022HD

    A poetic retelling of the experiences of Joseph Murakami, a fourteen-year-old boy from Darwin, who is summarily rounded up and interned by his governm...

    Enemy Alien
  • 2017
    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

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    Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII became the most decorated unit in American histor...

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes
  • 2009
    Half Kenneth

    Half Kenneth

    Half Kenneth

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    1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Caucasian mother who lives in town. Things become compl...

    Half Kenneth
  • 2012
    Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door

    Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door

    Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door

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    The untold story of a world-renowned place of remembrance of the Holocaust in France, the internment camp of Drancy, which was the central transit for...

    Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door
  • 2024
    Sam

    Sam

    Sam

    02024HD

    A 1971 film study of a Japanese American who lived in a detention camp during World War II.

    Sam