Of civil wrongs and rights the Fred Korematsu story
2007
DVD
In 1942, Fred Korematsu was an average 23-year-old California native working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9066, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps, he became something extraordinary -- a civil rights champion. This film follows Korematsu's story from the moment he first resisted confinement to the hard-won victory he finally achieved 39 years later, with the help of a new generation of Japanese-American activists seeking vindication and the assurance that such a terrible injustice would never occur again. This is the striking story of an ordinary man's courageous actions, which demonstrates the power of ordinary citizens to rise up against injustice.
Item Details
ISBN: 076709302X
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
Other Title: Of civil wrongs and rights, the Fred Korematsu story [DVD]
Notes:
- Special features: Interviews with Eric Paul Fournier (11 min.); Filmmaker biography [text feature]; About Docurama [text feature]; Docurama trailer park (8 min.).
- Originally produced as an American documentary in 2000; broadcast on PBS as an episode of P.O.V. on July 10, 2001.
- Cinematography, Peter McCandless ; edited by Jean Kawahara, Eric Paul Fournier, Bill Chessman, Treena Loria ; original music score, Bond Bergland & Michael Becker ; advisory committee, Philip Kan Gotanda, Yuji Ichioka, Peter Irons, Pamela Matsuoka, Dale Minami, Diane Livia Nelson, Steven Okazaki, Rita Takahashi, Ronald Takaki.
- Fred Korematsu; commentators Rita Takahashi, Peter Irons, John Frank, Tsuyako "Sox" Kitashima, Donald K. Tamaki, Ernest Besig, Deborah K. Lim, John Tateishi, Ronald Takaki, Dorothy M. Ehrlich, Robert Post, Rose Elizabeth Bird, Dale Minami, Kathryn Korematsu, Karen Korematsu-Haigh, Karen Kai, Marilyn Hall Patel, Eva Paterson, Norman Y. Mineta, Martha Jimenez.
- DVD; NTSC; Dolby Digital stereo.
Publisher or Distributor Number: NVG-9853
Control Number: 942847
UPC: 767685985335
Publisher: [United States] : New Video Group, 2007.Subjects:
- Japanese Americans -- California -- Biography.
- Japanese Americans -- Civil rights.
- Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
- Korematsu, Fred, 1919-2005.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Biography.
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