Toyo's Camera
Toyo's Camera

Toyo's Camera

0.0

1 hr 38 min

2009-04-11

0

Even though bringing in cameras to the internment camps was prohibited, one man managed to smuggle in his own camera lens and build a camera to document life behind barbed wires, with the help of other craftsmen in the camp. That man was Toyo Miyatake, a successful issei (first generation immigrant) photographer and owner of a photo-shop in the Los Angeles Little Tokyo district, and of one of the many Americans who was interned with his family against his will. With his makeshift camera, Miyatake captured the dire conditions of life in the camps during World War II as well as the resilient spirit of his companions, many of whom were American citizens who went on to fight for their country overseas. Miyatake said, "It is my duty to record the facts, as a photographer, so that this kind of thing should never happen again."

Documentary

War

History

Trailers

Characters

George Takei

George Takei

Self

Daniel Inouye

Daniel Inouye

Self

Similar Movies

Children from Overseas

1940-07-15

Narvik

2022-12-25

The Toth Family

1969-11-29

Germans

1997-05-09

Zdobyć miasto

1994-07-27

The Break

1997-01-01

La Rafle du Vel d'Hiv, la honte et les larmes

2022-07-11

Les Suppliques

2022-07-11

Pegasus Bridge

Memphis Belle

1990-09-07

Charlotte Gray

2001-12-28

Łódź Ghetto

1989-03-22

A Return to Memory

2024-10-17

Sandakan No. 8

1974-11-02

The Girl

1965-05-07

Miracle at St. Anna

2008-09-15

A Bear Named Wojtek

2023-08-11

Coal

2025-03-06

Munich, or Peace in Our Time

1967-09-03

Keep 'Em Slugging

1943-03-01