IDS 101: Asia in Oregon: Films

An internee in Japanese American internment camps in the United States, Inada discusses his experiences and poems about growing up in the camps.

Carolyn Micnhimer, museum curator, leads a tour of the Kam Wah Chung Museum, which features exhibits about the large Chinese community in early John Day, Oregon.

Guitarist Tinh Mahoney first stepped inside Oregon State Penitentiary at the invitation of some inmates. His dream of building a school in the native Vietnam inspired them on a four year journey ending with the building of a school the inmates will never visit.

Documents the adaptation of a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos to life in America, where everything is culturally alien and everyone is a stranger.

Documentary looking at how East Asian Hmong refugees have adapted to life in U.S. cities.

On a road trip across the U.S. filmmaker Renee Tajima-Pena records the voices and personalities of Asian Americans from Chinatown, New York to a debutante ball in Anaheim, California.

Traces the history and experiences of Chinese Americans

A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy.

Faced with a country that doubted their loyalty following Pearl Harbor, uprooted and sent to relocation camps, Japanese-American families turned to baseball as a way to stand up for themselves.

A stand-up comedy performance by comedian Margaret Cho.