List of feature films about the Japanese American internment

Feature films about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans include:

• American Pastime (2007) Focuses on internees' use of baseball as a source of entertainment while living in camp
• Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
• Come See the Paradise (1990) Follows an interracial family separated by the wartime incarceration program
• Day of Independence (2003) A Nisei teen immerses himself in baseball after his parents decide to return to Japan rather than remain in camp in the U.S.
• Farewell to Manzanar (1976) Made for television adaptation of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's memoirs of her time in the Manzanar concentration camp
• Forgotten Valor (2001) Written and directed by Lane Nishikawa, a Nisei veteran remembers his experiences during WWII
• Go for Broke! (1951) Based on the real-life story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated army unit of Japanese American men, many of whom served while their families were incarcerated on the home front
• Hell to Eternity (1960) Biopic about Guy Gabaldon, a Mexican American Marine who was adopted by a Japanese American family at age 12 and went on to serve in WWII while his adoptive family was interned in Manzanar
• If Tomorrow Comes (1971) Made-for-TV movie following the romance between a Nisei man and a white woman at the start of WWII
• Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) Adaptation of the novel by David Guterson
• Strawberry Fields (1997)

See also

• List of documentary films about the Japanese American internment