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Victims of Circumstance
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Product Details
- Audience Rating: Unrated
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- Binding: DVD
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- EAN: 0883629031804
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- Format: NTSC
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- Label: Kawayan Productions
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- Manufacturer: Kawayan Productions
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- Product Group: DVD
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- Publisher: Kawayan Productions
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- Region Code: 0
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- Release Date: 2006-09-01
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- Studio: Kawayan Productions
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- Title: Victims of Circumstance
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- UPC: 883629031804
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Product Description: Japanese aggression in the Pacific in December 1941 overwhelmed British and American forces in the Far East. The sudden attack of the Philippine Islands on December 8th, 1941, stranded thousands of Americans who now faced an uncertain and frightening future. Over 3700 businessmen, housewives, school children - whole families who through no fault of their own, were thrown into a set of circumstances which would lead them through three years and one month of starvation, sickness and even death. They were forced to leave their homes and belongings; forced to leave their friends and way of live to live under the domination and whims of the mighty Imperial Forces of Japan. There were interned within the walls of an old Spanish university which would be called the Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Their poignant stories commemorate the human spirit and their will to organize and survive or face untold consequences.
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Customer Reviews
Very Interesting
I bought this product because my great uncle was held the camp. It was a very interesting, moving documentary. It was a little slow in parts, but gave a good idea of what the people and times were like there.
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Factual film
My mother, father, grandparents, and sister were in Santo Tomas and this film mimics what I was told growing up. A sad experience for me watching this now that my parents and grand parents are gone.
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Accurate and Outstanding
There have been several books written about "the Santo Tomas experience" over the years since WWII, but it takes a video portrayal of the conditions to enable most of us to understand just how bad conditions became towards the end of 1944 and up to liberation on February 3, 1945. Amazon also stocks Cleo Mathews Wetmore's *Beyond Pearl Harbor* that I think comes the closest to helping one to understand. Another title that one should read might be Teedie Cowie Woodcock's *Behind the Sawali* (remember in the DVD the repeated references to Sawali, a plant material used to screen the huts and main gate from prying eyes). Other titles are *One Hundred Candles* and *Living with Post-traumatic Stress*. Amazon usually stocks all of these for those of us who want to learn more about this small corner of WWII.
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Santo Tomas
This film brought back a flood of memories. I was born in Manila, and my family and I were in Manila during the Japanese occupation. My dad was imprisoned in Santo Tomas for three years during WW11. We left Manila in July of 1945 and I was 15. That was an experience my family and I will never forget. I am glad to be able to have a recorded history of that period of my life. Many thanks to Kawayan Production,Lou Gopal and Michelle Bunn.
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Okay
I was looking for some documentary material regarding WWII (Pacific). This was good information but a little boring in the presentation.
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