One Fighting Irishman: Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center
2023
Narrated by George Takei
ONE FIGHTING IRISHMAN, a 30-minute documentary tells the story of attorney Wayne M. Collins who rescued more than 5,500 people from being deported to a country upon which many of them had never stepped foot.At a time when wartime hysteria and racist hatred of American citizens of Japanese ancestry was sweeping the country, one attorney stood above the rest to fiercely defend the Constitutional rights of those the government considered the worst of the lot—those accused of being disloyal.
For more information and DVD available at waynecollinsfilm.com
Moving Walls
2017
Only months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 463 barracks were built in a remote area in Wyoming to house more than 11,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry considered to be the enemy. After the war, these same buildings were used as shelter for homesteaders who bought these buildings for a dollar apiece. MOVING WALLS brings together two tales of struggle and resilience: the confinement of a people based simply on race and the settling of the American West by modern pioneers who chose to build new lives on the frontier.
For more information and DVD available at movingbarracks.com
Films
A Flicker in Eternity
2012
The coming-of-age tale of Stanley Hayami, a talented young teenager caught between his dream of becoming a writer/artist and his duty to his country. Based on Hayami’s own diary (like the book, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl), this documentary is the firsthand account of a 15-year-old thrust into the turmoil of World War II and is a poignant reminder of the indignity of incarceration and the tragedy of war. Through Stanley’s endearing cartoons and witty observations, this film chronicles his life behind barbed wire and as a soldier in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. It is based on his diary and letters, which are archived at the Japanese American National Museum.
For more information and DVD available at flickerineternity.com
2012
The coming-of-age tale of Stanley Hayami, a talented young teenager caught between his dream of becoming a writer/artist and his duty to his country. Based on Hayami’s own diary (like the book, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl), this documentary is the firsthand account of a 15-year-old thrust into the turmoil of World War II and is a poignant reminder of the indignity of incarceration and the tragedy of war. Through Stanley’s endearing cartoons and witty observations, this film chronicles his life behind barbed wire and as a soldier in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. It is based on his diary and letters, which are archived at the Japanese American National Museum.
For more information and DVD available at flickerineternity.com
Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn
2010
The life story of Michi Nishiura Weglyn (1926-1999), a prominent civil rights leader who was known for her landmark book, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, the first comprehensive book on the WWII incarceration written by a Nisei held in the camps. After eight years as the costume designer for the Perry Como Show, Michi Nishiura Weglyn gave up a successful career in show business in the mid-1960s to write the book that provided factual evidence of governmental misconduct during World War II. The award-winning book, published in 1976, was hailed as the “Bible of 20th Century Japanese Americans.”
2010
The life story of Michi Nishiura Weglyn (1926-1999), a prominent civil rights leader who was known for her landmark book, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, the first comprehensive book on the WWII incarceration written by a Nisei held in the camps. After eight years as the costume designer for the Perry Como Show, Michi Nishiura Weglyn gave up a successful career in show business in the mid-1960s to write the book that provided factual evidence of governmental misconduct during World War II. The award-winning book, published in 1976, was hailed as the “Bible of 20th Century Japanese Americans.”