Internment Camp Movies
- 1987
Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun7.5171987HD
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured...
- 2009
District 9
District 97.4462009HD
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...
- 2009
Half Kenneth
Half Kenneth02009HD
1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Caucasian mother who lives in town. Things become...
- 1950
Three Came Home
Three Came Home6.71950HD
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and...
- 2018
That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations
That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations02018HD
The documentary tells the little known story of thousands of Ukrainian and Eastern Europeans that were interned in Canadian camps during the First...
- 2016
Allegiance
Allegiance6.52016HD
Inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei, Allegiance follows one family's extraordinary journey in this untold American story...
- 1982
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore71982HD
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...
- 2017
A Bitter Legacy
A Bitter Legacy02017HD
A sobering look at the brutal treatment of Japanese-Americans before, during, and after WWII as well as the global repercussions that resulted.
- 1985
The Dunera Boys
The Dunera Boys61985HD
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...
- 1984
Silver City
Silver City4.31984HD
After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel,...
- 2017
Resistance at Tule Lake
Resistance at Tule Lake02017HD
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....
- 1970
Death March
Death March01970HD
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...
- 2012
Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door
Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door02012HD
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...
- 1999
Old Man River
Old Man River101999HD
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...
- 2022
Enemy Alien
Enemy Alien02022HD
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...
- 2017
Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes
Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes02017HD
Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII became the most decorated unit in American...
- 1998
Double Solitaire
Double Solitaire01998HD
The filmmaker's father and uncle, Norm and Stan, are third generation Japanese Americans. They are "all American" guys who love bowling, cards and...
- 1970
Sam
Sam01970HD
A 1971 film study of a Japanese American who lived in a detention camp during World War II.
- 1991
Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo
Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo71991HD
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...