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Conscience and the Constitution
Title
Conscience and the Constitution [videorecording] / Independent Television Service presents a Resisters.com production ; co-producer, Shannon Gee ; written, produced and directed by Frank Abe ; with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Civil Liberties Education Fund.
ISBN
9780970541222
0970541228
Edition
Two-disc collector's edition.
Published
[Hohokus, NJ] : Transit Media, [2011]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (190 min.) : sound, color with black and white portions ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Credits taken from container.
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2000.
Bonus features include outtakes, interviews, extras, featurette "The JACL apologizes," viewer's guide, trailers, and scene selection.
Digital preservation supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Fund.
Editor, Lillian Benson ; director of photography, Phil Sturholm ; music, Alan Koshiyama.
English (2.0 stereo); closed-captioned, bonus material not captioned.
Awards: BEST FEATURE FILM: VC FilmFest 2000, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival ; Vermont International Film Festival (War and Peace category) ; BEST DOCUMENTARY: San Luis Obispo International Film Festival ; New York International Independent Film & Video Festival ; BEST MUSIC SCORE: Emerald City Awards, Seattle ; DARUMA CIVIL RIGHTS AWARD: Sacramento Asian American community.
Summary
Americans, organized as the Fair Play Committee, refused to be drafted from the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. They were ready to fight, but not before their rights as U.S. citizens were restored and families released. This was the largest organized resistance to incarceration, leading to the largest trial for draft resistance in U.S. history. Prosecuted as criminals, Japanese American leaders and veterans ostracized them as traitors. The resisters served two years in prison, and for the next 50 were written out of the official history of Japanese America.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 27, 2016
Credits
Editor, Lillian Benson ; director of photography, Phil Sturholm ; music, Alan Koshiyama.
Performers
Narrator, Lawson Fusao Inada ; voices: George Takei, Mako, Stephen Sumida, Jim French.
System details note
DVD ; NTSC, all regions.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Independent Television Service.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.
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