Day of Independence (2003)

Directed by

Chris Tashima

Genre

drama, family, history

Country

United States

Runtime

27 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Japanese American boy and his family are forced into an internment camp during World War II. The story focuses on their daily life and the small moments that sustain them.

poignantquietreflectivesomberrestrainedbittersweetintimategrounded

What happens

Day of Independence is a 2003 short film, broadcast in 2005 as a half-hour PBS television special. It is a drama, set during the Japanese American internment of World War II, produced by Cedar Grove Productions with Visual Communications as fiscal sponsor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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