On-Demand Shows

This year's Films of Remembrance offers a retrospective of 35 films representing the best of our first decade, separated into nine themed programs that are available to rent, in addition to four new films and their panel discussions, held live Feb. 20-21, 2021. These films are available for on-demand viewing from February 20 through March 7, 2021 (UPDATED).

“Rebel With A Cause” Program + Panel Discussion

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Program “Rebel With A Cause” Program + Panel Discussion “Rebel With A Cause: The Life of Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga” (2016, 90 min.) by Janice Tanaka. The biopicture...

Shorts Program + Panel Discussion

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Program Shorts Program + Panel Discussion “Three shorts films: “Bearing the Unbearable,” “A Hero’s Hero,” “Within Their Gates”   “Bearing the Unbearable” (2019, 29...

Narrative Shorts

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Program Narrative Shorts The narrative shorts allow us to step back in time — creating a visceral experience of the sparse…

Films of Resistance

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Program Films of Resistance The wartime incarceration was met with varied responses, from super patriotism to resistance. These films take a look…

Untold Stories

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Program Untold Stories For years, it had been common knowledge that Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from the West Coast during…

Art of the Camps

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Program Art of the Camps Out of bleak surroundings and the deprivation of civil liberties, music, art and culture bloomed out of the…

Camp Stories

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Program Camp Stories From Wyoming to Arkansas, these films encapsulate the concentration camp experience in one concise volume, giving voice to…

Taking A Stand

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Program Taking A Stand Voices of resistance, and those who were angered by their wartime incarceration, speak volumes. In the 1980s, it…

Lessons For Today

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Program Lessons For Today What are the ongoing lessons to be learned from the wartime incarceration? For many Japanese Americans, it means…

Family Histories

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Program Family Histories Younger generations rediscover the struggle faced by those who came before them in this program of shorts exploring…

Documentaries

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Program Documentaries From discovering what became of the barracks that housed Japanese Americans during the war, or groundbreaking documentaries on…