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In 1942, the United States imprisoned 120,000 Japanese Americans without trial.
Inside these prison camps, something extraordinary existed: libraries.

This documentary uncovers the untold story of how 250,000 books circulated through Japanese American internment camps during World War II—and how reading became an act of resistance.

Created by the U.S. government to pacify internees and present a humane image, camp libraries instead educated a generation in constitutional law, civil rights, and American democratic ideals—even as those ideals were being violated.

Internees read Democracy in America while imprisoned without trial. They studied the Constitution while their constitutional rights were denied. Decades later, this knowledge fueled legal challenges, activism, and ultimately the redress and apology issued by the U.S. government.

Through archival records, oral histories, and Supreme Court cases like Korematsu and Hirabayashi, this film reveals a central contradiction of American democracy—and how knowledge became a tool of survival and resistance..


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