Movies: Internment camp

  • 2009
    District 9

    District 9 (2009)

    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 African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned w...

    District 9
  • 1987
    Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun (1987)

    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 with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is...

    Empire of the Sun
  • 1950
    Three Came Home

    Three Came Home (1950)

    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 imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga....

    Three Came Home
  • 1982
    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (1982)

    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 expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their...

    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
  • 1985
    The Dunera Boys

    The Dunera Boys (1985)

    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 many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who...

    The Dunera Boys
  • 2018
    That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations

    That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations (2018)

    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 World War....

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

    Allegiance (2016)

    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 following the events of Pearl Harbor. Their loyalty was questioned, their freedom taken away, but their...

    Allegiance
  • 1969
    Death March

    Death March (1969)

    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 soldiers get more than they bargained for when Wright’s years of martial arts training in Hong Kong prove ...

    Death March
  • 1984
    Silver City

    Silver City (1984)

    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, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years whil...

    Silver City
  • 1999
    Old Man River

    Old Man River (1999)

    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 long career in films and television, most often as a stereotyped Asian. The daughter, in the course o...

    Old Man River
  • 1991
    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo (1991)

    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 refused to be separated from her husband and was interned along with him. Based on the personal paper...

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

    Enemy Alien (2022)

    Enemy Alien

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    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 government on the basis of his ethnicity, leaving wounds unhealed to this day....

    Enemy Alien
  • 2009
    Half Kenneth

    Half Kenneth (2009)

    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 complicated, however, when Kens little brother, Jo, joins him at the last minute....

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

    Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door (2012)

    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 the near totality of the 76 000 deported Jews of France during World War II....

    Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door
  • 2017
    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes (2017)

    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 history....

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes
  • 2017
    A Bitter Legacy

    A Bitter Legacy (2017)

    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 (2017)

    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. Branded as 'disloyals' and re-imprisoned at Tule Lake Segregation Center, they continued to protest in...

    Resistance at Tule Lake
  • 1998
    Double Solitaire

    Double Solitaire (1998)

    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 pinball. Placed in the Amache internment camp as children during World War II, they don't think the exp...

    Double Solitaire
  • 1969
    Sam

    Sam (1969)

    Sam

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

    Sam