Sen. Daniel K. Inouye Movies
- 2008
- NR
Filmmaker Terry Sanders is offered unprecedented access to combat support hospitals in Iraq, medevac flights, and military hospitals both in Germany and the United States for this documentary portrait of the American military medicine system. In addition to interweaving stories about American military medical workers forced to work against the chaotic backdrop of the Iraq War, the wounded soldiers whose lives have been forever changed in combat, and the USU medical students who strive to become career military physicians, the film also traces the remarkable journey of 21-year-old Army Specialist Crystal Davis as she travels from Iraq to Germany to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., while attempting to spring back into action after losing a leg. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2007
Ken Burns continues his exploration of massive, sweeping subjects with his 15-hour documentary The War; in this case, the conflict in question is World War II. Yet within the scope of that gargantuan subject, Burns and co-director Lynn Novick narrow their scale of emphasis, honing in on four "average" American towns and charting the experiences of individual young men who enlisted to go overseas and fight against the encroaching shadow of fascism. The film covers each major "region" of the U.S. by transporting audiences to the west coast (Sacramento, California); the south (Mobile, Alabama); the east coast (Waterbury, Connecticut) and the Midwest (the farming community of Luverne, Minnesota). Within that geographic framework, Burns uncovers a series of astonishing tales about bravery in the midst of adversity - from the story of a young man who transported 12 American soldiers from the Normandy beach on D-Day, to the accounts of innumerable young men who falsified their ages and enlisted early. Burns and Novick thus repeatedly emphasize the human side of war - an aspect all too often glossed over when documentarians treat WWII on a broader scale. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Glenn Frazier, Sam Hynes, (more)
- 2006
The Asian-American Hawaiian senator Daniel Inouye hosts, and the Japanese-American actor George Takei (Star Trek) serves as narrator, in Going for Broke, a documentary that provides an incredibly rare glimpse of an unusual corner of World War II: those Japanese men who fought hatred, prejudice and discrimination after Pearl Harbor to fight for the US military in the second world war. Going for Broke honors this group of extraordinarily brave and patriotic men. By coupling archival footage and harrowing interviews with Japanese-American veterans, the film examines exactly how these individuals managed to cope and cling to their beliefs in American ideals, overcoming the bigotry that threatened to destroy any lingering optimism that they possessed. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- 2003
While the tragic and misguided Japanese internment camps during World War II are well documented, the stories of the young Japanese men who served in the United States Army while their relatives had their constitutional rights revoked are finally brought to light in director Gayle K. Yamada's 2003 historical documentary, Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties. Though the prospect of having Japanese men in the armed services during the war would seem to have been considered an asset, the opposite was, unfortunately, true. The only branch of the military to allow men of Japanese heritage to enlist was the Army, though, to the its credit, those young men were fully utilized in the Military Intelligence Service as translators, interrogators, and spies. Interviewing a number of Japanese-American World War II veterans, Yamada reveals the stories of these young patriots who served their nation proudly, in spite of the injustices that same nation visited on their loved ones. Produced by KVIE Public Television, Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties was screened at the 2003 New York Independent Film and Video Festival. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide
