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1. Midway (1976)
PG | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford
Votes: 21,480
2. Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A Japanese-American fisherman is accused of killing his neighbor at sea. In the 1950s, race figures into the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Director: Scott Hicks | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Max von Sydow, Yûki Kudô, Reeve Carney
Votes: 14,561 | Gross: $14.38M
3. Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009 Video)
Unrated | 99 min | Documentary, History, War
An exploration of the viewpoint that the September 11, 2001 attacks were planned by the United States government.
Director: Dylan Avery | Stars: Osama bin Laden, Johnelle Bryant, George W. Bush, Laura Bush
Votes: 3,733
4. Farewell to Manzanar (1976 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, History, War
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki, her family and 11,000 other Americans of Japanese descent and their immigrant parents are imprisoned in the internment camp Manzanar in California.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Yuki Shimoda, Nobu McCarthy, Dori Takeshita, Akemi Kikumura
Votes: 142
5. Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942)
Approved | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
On 1 November 1941, American-born Japanese businessman Ito Takimura meets with Japanese spies in Tokyo. Takimura is welcomed into the Black Dragon Society and urged to use his importing ... See full synopsis »
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Preston Foster, Brenda Joyce, Harold Huber, Donald Douglas
Votes: 32
6. Topaz (1945)
48 min | Documentary, History
A compilation of two years' worth of footage taken surreptitiously by internee Dave Tatsuno inside the Topaz concentration camp in Millard County, Utah.
Director: Dave Tatsuno
Votes: 94
7. Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp (2022)
56 min | Documentary, History
The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.
Director: Rory Banyard | Stars: Tamlyn Tomita, Frank Chin, Mike Ishii, Paul Nagano
Votes: 17
8. Something's Gonna Live (2009)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
"Daniel Raim has followed his Oscar-nominated The Man on Lincoln's Nose, a warm and illuminating short documentary on renowned production designer Robert Boyle with the equally delightful ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Raim | Stars: Robert F. Boyle, Henry Bumstead, Conrad L. Hall, Harold Michelson
Votes: 178
9. Children of the Camps (1999 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary
More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned behind barbed wire during World War II - over half were children. This documentary captures the experiences of six Americans of Japanese ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Holsapple | Stars: Howard Ikemoto, Satsuki Ina, Marion Kanemoto, Bessie Masuda
10. The Truth About Lying (2009 Video)
13 min | Short, Drama
A film editor struggling to cope with her brother's death in the Iraq war befriends a World War II veteran who was forced to live in an American Japanese Internment camp in the 1940's.
Director: Donald Likovich | Stars: Amy Bloom, Kate Krieger, Robert Martin III, Blake Kushi
Votes: 9
11. Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989)
88 min | Documentary
Featuring rare archival footage, explores the impact of Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren's historical rulings during a tumultuous time for American politics.
Director: Bill Jersey | Stars: Joseph Ball, Robert Bork, William Brennan, Herbert Brownell Jr.
Votes: 36
12. Unknown & Forgotten (2008)
19 min | Short, Drama, History
In 1941 a young Japanese-American man is taken from his family and sent to an internment camp by the U.S. Government. Despite protesting that he has done nothing wrong he is still imprisoned, interrogated and accused of being a spy.
Director: Winston Rekert | Stars: Koji Sasagawa, Sean Pederson, Teagan Rae Avoledo, Paolo Valdes
13. Samuel Wilder King (2018)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Samuel Wilder King: The story of a WWI and WWII sailor, a descendant of a Scottish sailor and Hawaiian royalty, who eventually became Governor of the Hawaii Territory. Featuring his ... See full summary »
Director: Carolina Gratianne | Stars: Trevor Getz, Louise Keali'iloma King Lanzilotti
14. Take Me Home: A Child's Experience of Internment (2005)
15 min | Short, History, War
Picture a boy's face, pressed against a cold window on a train toward nowhere, has small feet stepping down into the desert landscape of a place far from home. It's 1942 and over 100,000 ... See full summary »
Directors: Andrea Palpant Dilley, Dave Tanner | Stars: Patty Duke, Kenny Sato, Hannah Smith
15. Guilty by Reason of Race (1972 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Produced and reported by veteran producer Robert Northshield and incorporated historic footage and photographs with contemporary interviews with Japanese Americans as well as those who ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Flamenhaft | Stars: Edwin Boney, Tom Clark, Lloyd Cosgrove, Miyuki Hirano
16. The Pain with Being Thirsty (2007)
6 min | Short
A film that juxtaposes found footage of Japanese Internment camps in Arizona with a found letter written by Babar Ahmad, a Muslim prisoner accused of running Al-Qaeda websites and awaiting ... See full summary »
Director: David Yun
17. The Colorado Experience: Freedom and Poverty (2009)
32 min | Documentary, Short
"The Colorado Experience: Freedom & Poverty" tells the human story of three Japanese American women who fled the Internment camps during WWII. This gripping documentary chronicles their ... See full synopsis »
Director: Bryan Yokomi | Stars: Jean Minami, Richard Tanaka, Ann Yokomi, Bryan Yokomi
Votes: 10
18. A Little Bit of Discipline (2006)
PG-13 | 13 min | Short, Drama
During the summer of 1953, young Kenji (Phil Chung) works for his Uncle Seito's (Peter Park) gardening business. Both were interned at the Heart Mountain concentration camp near Powell. ... See full summary »
Director: Alan O'Hashi | Stars: Peter Park, Phil Chung, Stuart Goldstein, Robin Litt
19. Shashin: Through the Lens of History (2012)
21 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A personal story in which the director tells of his interest in his old family photos from the 1920's and his search for information on his great-grandfather, a Japanese-Canadian ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Clement | Star: Brian Clement
20.
About Us (2003– )
Episode:
In Time of War: The Japanese-American Experience of World War II
(2006)
Documentary, History, War
In a single moment, the United States vaulted itself into World War II following the attacks of Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The semblance of measured serenity and daily life ... See full summary »
Director: Andrea Palpant Dilley | Star: Patty Duke
21.
The War (2007)
Episode:
A Necessary War: December 1941 - December 1942
(2007)
TV-14 | 143 min | Documentary, History, War
This series profiles World War II as seen primarily through the eyes of people living in just four U.S. Cities. This episode details an antebellum period before the attack on Pearl Harbor, ... See full summary »
Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Keith David, Glenn D. Frazier, Sam Hynes, Jim Sherman
Votes: 250
22.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
On Our Way: U.S.A. 1939-1942
(1973)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
The opposition to the United States' entry into the war, Lend Lease, U-boat attacks on Atlantic convoys and American responses, mobilization of America after Pearl Harbor, loss of the Philippines, Doolittle Raid, Midway and Guadalcanal.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Averell Harriman, George Ball, Norman Corwin
Votes: 439
23.
Today's Close Up (1993– )
Episode:
Gaman no geijutsu: Nikkei Amerikajin songen nosekai
(2010)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Hiroko Kuniya, Taichi Yamada
24.
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode:
The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-)
(2022)
TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History
A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.
Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer
Votes: 145
25.
Five Came Back (2017)
Episode:
Combat Zones
(2017)
TV-14 | 67 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The directors now in active service realize that their artistic vision won't always be fulfilled when bureaucracy and the realities of war intervene.
Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, John Ford
Votes: 311
26.
Drunk History (2013–2019)
Episode:
World War II
(2018)
TV-MA | 21 min | Comedy, History
A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops, a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment camps, and Adolf Hitler's nephew fights for the U.S.
Director: Jeremy Konner | Stars: Derek Waters, John Lutz, Randall Park, Lyric Lewis
Votes: 84