Crime

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"Forty Years from Sand Island" (film)

Films and Video
Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Adult
Action, Crime
Greed as downfall, Power and corruption, Power of the past
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Episode of the Magnum P.I. television series that centers on a murder in the Sand Island Internment Camp in 1942. The episode from the popular series' third season first aired in 1983.

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G-Men vs. The Black Dragon/Black Dragon of Manzanar (film)

Films and Video
Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Adult
Thriller, Crime
Fear of other, Good vs. bad, Nationalism - complications
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A war-era movie serial produced by Republic Pictures in 1943 that pits Los Angeles-based American Special Investigator Rex Bennett against the Black Dragon Society (BDS), a Japanese led organization that is attempting to aid the Axis-war effort. There is a brief intersection of the BDS with the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.

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