We Are American Soldiers (Documentary)
Filmmakers Katie May Porter (director) and Gregg Porter (producer/editor) will discuss their short documentary, We Are American Soldiers, featuring soldiers from the 407th Air Service Squadron.
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American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War II but also in the public understanding of nuclear weaponry.
Resistance at Tule Lake
Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a screening of the documentary, Resistance at Tule Lake, on those who resisted the illegal imprisonment during World War II, and afterwards hear from the director, Japanese American Konrad Aderer.
Unforgotten Song
Musician gamin has created “Unforgotten Song,” a music and multi-media work, to commemorate the anguish of Comfort Women, enslaved local women throughout Japanese-occupied East Asia, from 1932 to 1945.
The War Still Within: Poems of the Korean Diaspora
Part historical imagining of Japan’s so-called “comfort women” during World War II, part personal claiming of her own experiences with immigration and motherhood, and part exploration of identity across two languages, The War Still Within weaves together two cultures and gives voice to generations of Korean and Korean-American women.
Korean “Comfort Women”: Military Brothels, Brutality, and the Redress Movement
Korean “Comfort Women” synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations, and provides new findings about the issues “comfort women” faced for an English-language audience. It also examines the transnational redress movement, revealing that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the women’s human rights issue with diplomacy and economic power.