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In addition to its portrait of Gabaldon's wartime heroism,\n  \n   Hell to Eternity\n  \n  is notable as the first Hollywood film to portray the wartime confinement of Japanese Americans.","url_title":"Hell to Eternity (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["War","Drama"],"rg_theme":["Evils of racism","Heroism - real or perceived","War - glory, necessity, pain, tragedy"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"So Far from the Sea (book)","model":"article","index":"1 1/{'value': 10, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/So%20Far%20from%20the%20Sea%20(book)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/So%20Far%20from%20the%20Sea%20(book)/"},"title":"So Far from the Sea (book)","description":"Children's picture book by Eve Bunting about a Japanese American family's pilgrimage to\n  \n   Manzanar\n  \n  in 1972.","url_title":"So Far from the Sea (book)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["books"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 3-5"],"rg_genre":["Children's"],"rg_theme":["Change versus tradition","Death – inevitable or tragedy","Growing up – pain or pleasure","Injustice","Power of the past"],"rg_readinglevel":["Grades 3-5"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Books","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-book"},{"id":"A Jive Bomber's Christmas (play)","model":"article","index":"2 2/{'value': 10, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/A%20Jive%20Bomber's%20Christmas%20(play)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/A%20Jive%20Bomber's%20Christmas%20(play)/"},"title":"A Jive Bomber's Christmas (play)","description":"Musical play set in a World War II concentration camp by Saachiko and Dom Magwili. 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The play was based in part on Saachiko Magwili's childhood memories of\n  \n   Heart Mountain\n  \n  and shares a structural similarity with Dom Magwili's earlier\n  \n\n    Christmas in Camp\n   \n\n  , first produced at East West Players in 1981.","url_title":"A Jive Bomber's Christmas (play)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["plays"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Musical"],"rg_theme":["Importance of community","Optimism - power or folly"],"rg_readinglevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Plays","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-ticket"},{"id":"Manzanar Fishing Club (film)","model":"article","index":"3 3/{'value': 10, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Manzanar%20Fishing%20Club%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Manzanar%20Fishing%20Club%20(film)/"},"title":"Manzanar Fishing Club (film)","description":"Feature length documentary film on\n  \n   Manzanar\n  \n  inmates who temporarily escaped from the confines of the camp to fish in the nearby streams and mountains. In addition to interviews with former inmate fishermen (and women) and archival images,\n  \n   The Manzanar Fishing Club\n  \n  also tells its story using animation and recreated scenes with actors. The film had a limited theatrical release in April 2012 and was released on DVD on October 30, 2012. It was funded in part by grants from the\n  \n   California Civil Liberties Public Education Program\n  \n  and the\n  \n   Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant program\n  \n  .","url_title":"Manzanar Fishing Club (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary"],"rg_theme":["Desire to escape"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Manzanar National Historic Site Educator Resources Kit (curricula)","model":"article","index":"4 4/{'value': 10, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Manzanar%20National%20Historic%20Site%20Educator%20Resources%20Kit%20(curricula)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Manzanar%20National%20Historic%20Site%20Educator%20Resources%20Kit%20(curricula)/"},"title":"Manzanar National Historic Site Educator Resources Kit (curricula)","description":"\"How does identity shape my experience in America?\" is the central question which serves to unify the wide range of materials in this resource kit. The kit includes printed materials (lesson plans, reproductions of primary sources, official park brochure, booklet for self-guided tours, Densho brochure), and digital resources (video documentary, electronic field trip, biographical sketches of former inmates, related standards, lesson plans, and historical photos). 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The film is built around color footage of the camp taken by Aksel Nielson, the director of recreation at Manzanar. Narrated by Shindo, the film includes his own experiences at Manzanar, military service, and subsequent musical career. Though he had passed away prior to the making of the film, Nielson's voice can be heard describing scenes of sporting events and gardens at Manzanar, and his wife, Melva Nielson, a music teacher at Manzanar, is interviewed at length on camera. Among those appearing in the film are\n  \n   Military Intelligence Service\n  \n  veteran Yukio Tamura, artist\n  \n   Estelle Ishigo\n  \n  , photographer\n  \n   Toyo Miyatake\n  \n  , nursery owner Shinobu Mashiko, Tamotsu Tsuchida, and actor\n  \n   Mako\n  \n  . With the exception of the Nielsons, Shindo summarizes their comments over the footage of them, so that none of their voices actually are heard in the film. Also included are contemporary scenes of the Manzanar site at that time and of young people revisiting Manzanar, possibly at a\n  \n   pilgrimage\n  \n  .","url_title":"Encounter with the Past: American Japanese Internment in World War II (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary"],"rg_theme":["Injustice"],"rg_availability":["No availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Nurse of Manzanar: A Japanese American's World War II Journey (book)","model":"article","index":"6 6/{'value': 10, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Nurse%20of%20Manzanar:%20A%20Japanese%20American's%20World%20War%20II%20Journey%20(book)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Nurse%20of%20Manzanar:%20A%20Japanese%20American's%20World%20War%20II%20Journey%20(book)/"},"title":"Nurse of Manzanar: A Japanese American's World War II Journey (book)","description":"Edited diary of Toshiko Eto Nakamura (1910–94), a nurse who volunteered to work at the hospital in\n  \n   Manzanar\n  \n  during World War II.","url_title":"Nurse of Manzanar: A Japanese American's World War II Journey (book)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["books"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Non Fiction","Memoir"],"rg_theme":["Displacement","Facing reality","Importance of community","Overcoming - fear, weakness, vice","Role of women"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Books","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-book"},{"id":"Pilgrimage (film)","model":"article","index":"7 7/{'value': 10, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Pilgrimage%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Pilgrimage%20(film)/"},"title":"Pilgrimage (film)","description":"Documentary film that traces the origins of the first\n  \n   Manzanar\n  \n\n   pilgrimage\n  \n  in 1969 and links it to the 2005 pilgrimage and to efforts to uphold the rights of Arab and Muslim Americans after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The film includes interviews with many of the organizers of the 1969 pilgrimage and archival footage and photographs of that event and of related events from that time. Directed and edited by Tadashi Nakamura, the film was a production of the Center for EthnoCommunications of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center in 2008. The film is dedicated to the memory of\n  \n   Sue Kunitomi Embrey\n  \n  , who passed away in 2006. 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Commissioned by the National Park Service and produced by Signature Communications of Huntingtown, Maryland, in 2004,\n  \n   Remembering Manzanar\n  \n  provides a broad overview of the Japanese American wartime forced removal and incarceration based on interviews with a dozen former inmates, along with residents of the area around\n  \n   Manzanar\n  \n  and a teacher at Manzanar. None of the narrators are identified as they talk and none are pictured onscreen. Visuals consists entirely of archival still and moving images, including clips from newsreels and\n  \n   War Relocation Authority films\n  \n  along with home movies shot by inmates; period cartoons and caricatures; period artifacts; and contemporary footage of the Manzanar site. The 22-minute video is shown every half-hour at the Manzanar Visitor Center. 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