Government Newsreels

2 videos • 11,718 views • by Densho Education During World War II, the War Relocation Authority (WRA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) made a series of documentary films about the wartime removal and confinement of Japanese Americans. These documentaries, designed to shape public understandings of Japanese American incarceration, presented a number of quickly shifting perspectives (as filmmakers struggled to keep up with rapidly changing government policies) and failed to present a balanced view of their subject. For more information: http://encyclopedia.densho.org/OWI/WR...