Democracy Under Pressure: Japanese Americans and World War II
PARTNER
Densho
Visit partner
OBJECT ID
ddr-densho-1024-40
PARENT COLLECTION
Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films
DESCRIPTION
Documentary film on the wartime experience of Japanese Americans from the San Diego area, including their exclusion and subsequent incarceration at Santa Anita Assembly Center and Poston , as well as their return home. The story is told through the eyes of former inmates Ruth Takahashi Voorhies (born 1923) and Ben Segawa (born 1930), along with historian Don Estes.
See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Democracy Under Pressure: Japanese Americans and World War II.
See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-40.
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OBJECT GENRE
Motion Pictures
OBJECT FORMAT
Audio/Visual
FACILITY
CREATORS
- Betts, Jeffrey S. (Director and Editor)
- Kodama, Debra (Producer and Writer)
- Nishikawa, Maya (Narrator)
- Groupe, Larry (Music)
- Griffith, Michael (Cinematography)
- Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego (Studio)
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Densho
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho
RIGHTS
Copyright restricted