남아공 상공에 불시착한 외계인들은 요하네스버그 인근 지역 외계인 수용구역 ‘디스트릭트 9’에 임시 수용된 채 28년 동안 인간의 통제를 받게 된다. 외계인 관리국 MNU는 외계인들로 인해 무법지대로 변해버린 ‘디스트릭트 9’을 강제 철거하기로 결정하고, 프로젝트를 추진하던 중 책임자 비커스가 외계물질에 노출되는 사고를 당한다. 유전자 변이를 일으키면서 외계인으로 변해가는 비커스. 정부는 비커스가 외계 신무기를 가동시킬 수 있는 유일한 인물이라는 것을 알고 비밀리에 그를 추적하기 시작한다. 정부의 감시시스템이 조여오는 가운데, 비커스는 외계인 수용 구역 ‘디스트릭트 9’으로 숨어드는데…
1941년 중국과 일본은 4년째 선전포고 없는 전쟁을 치루고 있었으며, 농촌 지역의 상당 부분과 여러 마을 및 도시를 일본군이 점령하여 통치하고 있었다. 상하이(Shanghai)에는 수 천 명의 서양인들이 국제거주에 관한 외교 조약의 보호 아래 생활하고 있었는데, 그들은 19세기에 영국인 이주가 행해진 이래로, 은행과 호텔과 사무실과 교회와 가옥을 지어, 마치 영국의 리버풀(Liverpool)이나 서리(Surrey)를 그대로 옮겨놓은 듯한 소도시를 형성하고 있었다. 그러나 파국의 날은 오고 있었다. 상하이 외곽에 배치된 일본군이 그들의 공격 신호가 될 진주만 기습의 소식을 조용히 기다리고 있었던 것이다.
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years while they worked off the government's payment of their passage. Even though he is married to Anna and has a son, Julian falls in love with Nina and she with him. As they and others face the new situations and prejudices that await immigrants and as they take on aspects of Australian culture, old-country values reassert themselves. Julian decides what to do about love and family, and Nina must find a way to move on.
Inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei, Allegiance follows one family's extraordinary journey in this untold American story following the events of Pearl Harbor. Their loyalty was questioned, their freedom taken away, but their spirit could never be broken.
At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.
A poetic retelling of the experiences of Joseph Murakami, a fourteen-year-old boy from Darwin, who is summarily rounded up and interned by his government on the basis of his ethnicity, leaving wounds unhealed to this day.
Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a long career in films and television, most often as a stereotyped Asian. The daughter, in the course of searching out her late father's history, discovers many things that she had not known, among them that her father had spent time in Manzanar, the internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, that he had had a family prior to hers, and that somewhere out there was a sister she had never known existed.
1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Caucasian mother who lives in town. Things become complicated, however, when Kens little brother, Jo, joins him at the last minute.
This short documentary produced by the University of Oregon Multimedia Journalism graduate program explores memories of Portland's Japantown – Nihonmachi – and the thriving Japanese American community in Oregon prior to World War II. The film features Chisao Hata, an artist, teacher and activist, and Jean Matsumoto, who was incarcerated at the Portland Assembly Center and in the Minidoka concentration camp as a child.
The untold story of a world-renowned place of remembrance of the Holocaust in France, the internment camp of Drancy, which was the central transit for the near totality of the 76 000 deported Jews of France during World War II.
Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII became the most decorated unit in American history. This film tells their story.
The documentary tells the little known story of thousands of Ukrainian and Eastern Europeans that were interned in Canadian camps during the First World War.
The filmmaker's father and uncle, Norm and Stan, are third generation Japanese Americans. They are "all American" guys who love bowling, cards and pinball. Placed in the Amache internment camp as children during World War II, they don't think the experience affected them that much. But in the course of navigating the maze of her father's and uncle's pursuits while simultaneously trying to inquire about their past, the filmmaker is able to find connections between their lives now and the history that was left behind.
A 1971 film study of a Japanese American who lived in a detention camp during World War II.
The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II. Branded as 'disloyals' and re-imprisoned at Tule Lake Segregation Center, they continued to protest in the face of militarized violence, and thousands renounced their U.S. citizenship. Giving voice to experiences that have been marginalized for over 70 years, this documentary challenges the nationalist, one-sided ideal of wartime 'loyalty.'
The story of Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians interned with Japanese Americans during World War II. The wife of a Japanese American, Ishigo refused to be separated from her husband and was interned along with him. Based on the personal papers of Estelle Ishigo and her novel Lone Heart Mountain.