Before They Take Us Away

Released on
Documentary
Runtime
82 mins
(0 votes)

At the start of World War II, Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were faced with the threat of forced removal and incarceration in concentration camps. A small number took their fate in their own hands, fleeing to interior states, becoming refugees in their own country, on a forced migration into the unknown. Before They Take Us Away is the first feature documentary to chronicle the untold stories of the “self-evacuees” who spent the war years outside the camps, as they struggled to rebuild their lives and overcome poverty, isolation, hostility and racial violence.

Cast

    Director

    • Antonia Grace Glenn

    Producers

    • Patrick Glenn
    • Antonia Grace Glenn
    • Evelyn Nakano Glenn
    • Tim Becherer

    Screenwriter

    • Antonia Grace Glenn

    Similar Movies