Videos and Audio Recordings
“George Takei on the Japanese Internment Camps during WWII.” YouTube
video, 7:00. Posted by FoundationInterviews, November 29, 2011.
Activist and actor George Takei discusses his experience of being incarcerated with
his family when he was four years old and how it affected him and his parents.
Ginzberg, Abby, and Ken Schneider.
And Then They Came for Us.
Berkeley, CA: Films
for Justice, 2017. 50:00.
This documentary film is available at some libraries or for purchase online.
Comments by human rights advocate George Takei and author Elizabeth
Partridge follow the film, which describes the incarceration and compares it
to twenty-first-century discrimination and prejudice against other minorities,
such as Muslims and Latinos. Viewers can watch a trailer at
“Internment—Time of Remembrance—Kiyo Sato.” YouTube video,
30:53. Posted by SECCEducationalTV, November 27, 2013.
This interview with Kiyo Sato covers much of her life, including recent years.
(The film errs in naming the camp in which Kiyo was interned. She was
incarcerated at Poston in Arizona.)
“Kayo Sato Author ‘Dandelion through the Crack.’”
C-Span
, interview, 17:15,
September 10, 2015.
This interview with Kiyo Sato is sprinkled with archival film footage and
reporting of the internment.
“Looking Like the Enemy.” YouTube video, 6:59. Posted by Densho, April 9, 2015.
This brief documentary includes the radio broadcast announcing the bombing
of Pearl Harbor, the racist headlines in newspapers, Dr. Seuss’s bigoted cartoons,
and interviews with former internees.
“Manzanar: Never Again.” YouTube video, 14:20. Posted by PBS, August 27, 2009.
.
The documentary, narrated by Ken Burns and former internees, is about life in
the Manzanar camp.
“Momotaro, or the Story of the Son of a Peach.” Audio, 23:40, from Yei Theodora
Ozaki,
Japanese Fairy Tales.
Taken from a version of this traditional story, this recording covers the entire tale.
Order 9066.
American Public Media and Smithsonian’s National Museum of
American History.
This series of podcasts, published in 2018, features eight episodes averaging
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