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1 videodisc (approximately 58 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1942, more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were uprooted from their lives and incarcerated in relocation camps. Their stories, along with those who refused to go, are told in this Oscar nominated film.
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1 videodisc (approximately 74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of community and art ..."--Container.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 53
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1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
4) Time of fear
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In World War II, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps across the US. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast Arkansas, one of the poorest and most racially segregated places in America. It explores the reactions of the native Arkansans who watched in bewilderment as their tiny towns were overwhelmed by this huge influx of outsiders. Through interviews with the internees...
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the Wakatsuki family of Santa Monica, California, is told by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, who was seven years old when she and her family were taken by bus 250 miles to Camp Manzanar, near the High Sierras. The drama follows the family from their well-ordered, pleasant life in Santa Monica to the emotion-shattering experience of being uprooted and evacuated to camps.
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From March 1942 to May 1946, the United States government imprisoned over 4,000 Japanese and Japanese-American men at a camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Using twenty hours of interviews with the prisoners and their families as well as declassified government documents and private photographs, this documentary attempts to tell the previously untold story of these prisoners.
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