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Adapted from a fact-based play, Consul General Chiune Sugihara defies his own government and risks his career by issuing life-saving transit visas to Jewish refugees outside the Japanese Embassy in Lithuania.

Set against the background of a controversial period in American history, the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, Come See The Paradise is the love story of an Irish-American man and a beautiful Japanese-American woman. Stars Dennis…

A video presentation of Yoshiko Uchida's children's book about a gift from the heart and friends separated by war. Joanna Yardley's original illustrations are intercut with rare home movies and historic photographs to tell this heartwarming story of…

Along with Washingtonians William Nakamura and James Okubo, twenty other Asian American veterans, mostly Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans), were awarded the Medal of Honor on June 21, 2000, for their service in World War II. Nakamura and…

Americans, organized as the Fair Play Committee, refused to be drafted from the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Ready to fight, but not before their rights as U.S. citizens were restored and families released. The largest organized…

Using on-camera interviews, archival film footage and narration, tells the story of the Japanese-American soldiers who served in World War II as linguists and language specialists for the Intelligence Service and the story of the evacuation and…

Relates the 100-year history of the Japanese Baptist Church of Seattle through narration and the use of historical photographs. Opens with the founding of the church by Rev. Fukumatsu Okizaki on May 23, 1899, and describes various ministers,…

The life of the Fujita family and the experiences with Executive Order 9066.

Examines several troubling questions about the sneak attack that drew the United States into World War II.

Features never-before-seen home movies of the forced removal and incarceration of Japanesse Americans during World War II. Includes home movies often taken surreptitiously from the relocation centers at Minidoka (Idaho), Rohwer (Arkansas), Heart…