Documentaries

Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp (PBS)

This 60-minute PBS documentary explores the stories of the survivors of the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho. With their voices, these Japanese Americans hope to amplify calls for greater attention to human rights in the present and future to ensure this atrocity is not repeated again.

Korematsu and Civil Liberties (YouTube link)

Korematsu v. The United States (1944) was a historic case that questioned the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, an order that had allowed the military to forcefully remove Japanese Americans from their areas that were “important to national security.” This 28-minute documentary delves into the civil rights issues connected with this case and its impact on the Japanese American community.