Internment Camp Movies

  • 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...

    Empire of the Sun
  • 2009
    District 9

    District 9

    District 9

    7.4462009HD

    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...

    District 9
  • 2009
    Half Kenneth

    Half Kenneth

    Half Kenneth

    02009HD

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

    Half Kenneth
  • 1950
    Three Came Home

    Three Came Home

    Three Came Home

    6.71950HD

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

    Three Came Home
  • 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

    02018HD

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

    That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations
  • 2016
    Allegiance

    Allegiance

    Allegiance

    6.52016HD

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

    Allegiance
  • 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...

    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
  • 2017
    A Bitter Legacy

    A Bitter Legacy

    A Bitter Legacy

    02017HD

    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
  • 1985
    The Dunera Boys

    The Dunera Boys

    The Dunera Boys

    61985HD

    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
  • 1984
    Silver City

    Silver City

    Silver City

    4.31984HD

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

    Silver City
  • 2017
    Resistance at Tule Lake

    Resistance at Tule Lake

    Resistance at Tule Lake

    02017HD

    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....

    Resistance at Tule Lake
  • 1970
    Death March

    Death March

    Death March

    01970HD

    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...

    Death March
  • 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

    02012HD

    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...

    Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door
  • 1999
    Old Man River

    Old Man River

    Old Man River

    101999HD

    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...

    Old Man River
  • 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...

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

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

    02017HD

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

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes
  • 1998
    Double Solitaire

    Double Solitaire

    Double Solitaire

    01998HD

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

    Double Solitaire
  • 1970
    Sam

    Sam

    Sam

    01970HD

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

    Sam
  • 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

    71991HD

    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...

    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo