# List of films about the internment of Japanese Americans

Feature films about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans include:

## Feature films

* American Pastime (2007) Focuses on internees' use of baseball as a source of entertainment while living in camp
* Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
* Come See the Paradise (1990) Follows an interracial family separated by the wartime incarceration program
* Day of Independence (2003) A Nisei teen immerses himself in baseball after his parents decide to return to Japan rather than remain in camp in the U.S.
* Farewell to Manzanar (1976) Made-for-television adaptation of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's memoirs of her time in the Manzanar internment camp
* Forgotten Valor (2001) Written and directed by Lane Nishikawa, a Nisei veteran remembers his experiences during World War II
* Go for Broke! (1951) Based on the real-life story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated army unit of Japanese American men, many of whom served while their families were incarcerated on the home front
* Go for Broke: An Origin Story (2018) Follows a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students during the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, as they navigate wartime Hawaii and fight discrimination. Adaptation of the comic book by Stacey Hayashi
* Hell to Eternity (1960) Biopic about Guy Gabaldon, a Mexican American Marine who was adopted by a Japanese American family at age 12 and went on to serve in World War II while his adoptive family was interned in Manzanar
* If Tomorrow Comes (1971) Made-for-TV movie following the romance between a Nisei man and a white woman at the start of World War II
* 99 Years of Love 〜Japanese Americans〜 (2010)
* Kommando 1944 (2018)
* Only the Brave (2006)
* Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) Adaptation of the novel by David Guterson
* Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story (2004)
* Strawberry Fields (1997)
* The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
* Under the Blood Red Sun (2014) A 13 yr old Japanese boy faces monumental adversity in 1941 Hawaii, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Adaptation of the novel by Graham Salisbury

## Documentary films

| Title | Release Year | Producer(s) |
| 442: For the Future | 1997 | Patricia Kinaga |
| 442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity | 2010 | Junichi Suzuki |
| After Silence: Civil Rights and the Japanese American Experience | 2003 | Louis Shelton |
| All We Could Carry | 2011 | Steven Okazaki |
| America at Its Best: Legacy of Two Nisei Patriots | 2001 | Vince Matsuidaira, Nisei Veterans Committee of Seattle |
| And Then They Came for Us | 2017 | Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider (filmmaker) |
| The Art of Gaman: The Story Behind the Objects | 2010 | Rick Quan |
| Beyond Barbed Wire | 1997 | Steve Rosen, Terri DeBono |
| Camp Amache: The Story of an American Tragedy | 2007 | Don and Sandy Dexter |
| The Cats of Mirikitani | 2006 | Linda Hattendorf |
| Caught in Between: What to Call Home in Times of War | 2004 | Lina Hoshino |
| A Challenge to Democracy | 1943 | |
| ALTERNATIVE FACTS: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 | 2019 | Jon Osaki and Lauren Kawana |
| Children of the Camps | 1999 | |
| Citizen Tanouye | 2005 | Robert Horsting, Craig Yahata |
| The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII | 1987 | Loni Ding |
| Conscience and the Constitution | 2000 | Frank Abe |
| Days of Waiting | 1990 | Steven Okazaki |
| Dear Miss Breed | 2000 | Veronica Ko |
| Democracy Under Pressure: Japanese Americans and World War II | 2000 | Jeffrey S. Betts |
| A Divided Community | 2012 | Momo Yashima |
| Double Solitaire | 1997 | Corey Ohama |
| Emi | 1979 | Frank Nesbitt, Michael Toshiyuki Ono |
| Encounter with the Past: American Japanese Internment in World War II | 1980 | Tak Shindo |
| Enemy Alien | 2011 | Konrad Aderer |
| The Empty Chair | 2014 | Greg Chaney |
| Family Gathering | 1988 | |
| Farewell to Manzanar | 1973 | |
| A Flicker in Eternity | 2013 | Ann Kaneko, Sharon Yamato |
| Forced Out: Internment and the Enduring Damage to California Cities and Towns | 2003 | KVIE |
| Forsaken Fields | 2001 | Midori Sperandeo |
| From a Silk Cocoon | 2006 | Satsuki Ina |
| Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol | 2009 | Lucy Ostrander |
| Furusato: The Lost Village of Terminal Island | 2005 | David Meltzer |
| Gila River and Mama: The Ruth Mix Story | 2011 | Claire Mix |
| Guilty by Reason of Race | 1972 | NBC |
| Heart Mountain: Three Years in an Internment Camp | 1994 | Dianne Fukami |
| Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story | 2004 | Casey Peek, Irum Shiekh |
| History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige | 1992 | Rea Tajiri |
| The Idaho Homefront: Of Camps and Combat | 2007 | Jim Peck |
| In Time Of War | 2004 | Andrea Palpant |
| Interactions | 2000 | Justin Lin |
| Japanese Relocation | 1942 | Office of War Information |
| Jimmy Murakami—Enemy Alien | 2010 | Sé Merry Doyle |
| Justice Betrayed | 1992 | Gordon Lee, Honolulu JACL |
| The Legacy of Heart Mountain | 2014 | David Ono and Jeff MacIntyre |
| Life Interrupted: Reunion and Remembrance in Arkansas | 2006 | Japanese American National Museum |
| Manzanar | 1972 | Robert A. Nakamura |
| Manzanar Fishing Club | 2012 | Cory Shiozaki |
| Meeting at Tule Lake | 1994 | Scott T. Tsuchitani |
| Most Honorable Son | 2007 | Bill Kubota |
| The Music Man of Manzanar | 2005 | Brian T. Maeda |
| Nebraska's Nisei | 1998 | University of Nebraska |
| The Nisei: The Pride and the Shame | 1965 | CBS |
| Nisei Soldier: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People | 1983 | Loni Ding |
| Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story | 2000 | Eric Paul Fournier |
| Passing Poston | 2008 | Joe Fox |
| A Personal Matter: Gordon Hirabayashi vs. the United States | 1992 | John de Graaf |
| Pilgrimage | 2006 | Tad Nakamura |
| Prejudice and Patriotism: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in the Military Intelligence Service of WWII | 1998 | |
| Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japanese Internment in Santa Fe | 2011 | Neil H. Simon |
| Rabbit in the Moon | 1999 | Emiko Omori |
| Relocation, Arkansas | 2015 | Vivienne Schiffer |
| Remembering Manzanar | 2004 | National Park Service |
| Rescued By Fate | 2014 | Christopher HK Lee |
| Return to the Valley: Japanese American Experience After WWII | 2003 | Scott Gracheff |
| Searchlight Serenade | 2012 | Claire Reynolds |
| Shikata Ga Nai: An Inconvenient American | 2019 | Lauren Yanase |
| The Silent Glory | 2000 | Zed Merrill |
| Something Strong Within | 1994 | Japanese American National Museum |
| Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story | 2004 | John Esaki |
| Take Me Home: A Child's Experience of Internment | 2005 | David Tanner, Andrea Palpant |
| Tanforan: From Race Track to Assembly Center | 1994 | Dianne Fukami |
| Time of Fear | 2004 | Sue Williams |
| To Be Takei | 2014 | |
| Topaz | 1945 | |
| Topaz | 1988 | KUED |
| Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History During WWII | 2009 | Junichi Suzuki |
| Unfinished Business | 1985 | Steven Okazaki |
| The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i | 2012 | Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i |
| When You're Smiling: The Deadly Legacy of Internment | 1999 | Janice D. Tanaka |
| Winter in My Soul | 1986 | Bob Nellis, KTWO |
| Without Due Process: A Documentary about America's Concentration Camps | 2001 | Brian Beanblossom |
| Valor With Honor | 2008 | Burt Takeuchi |
| Visible Target | 1985 | Cris Anderson, John de Graaf |
| Yankee Samurai | 1985 | Katriel Schory |
| Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice | 1993 | Pat Saunders, Rea Tajiri |